Festival Hour Near At Hand Promises Six Day Parker Show
The Parker show arrives by a long train of twenty seven cars and erects stages along Jefferson Street for a six day festival in the city. Electricians carpenters and decorators work in a disciplined effort to prepare the attractions as crowds gather to witness the grand opening tonight.
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Cr. W. Parker
Sma
Parker
Jefferson Street
Depot
Chestnut Avenue
Savedniy
Jaite
La Grande Carnival Opens With Band Concert And Free Acts
The largest and finest company carnival presents a downtown concert by the show train band for hundreds of listeners. Free open air attractions include The Great Beno and the Latlips in a double high dive. The acts run twice daily and openings begin tonight after the 7 o'clock band concert.
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la Grande
Carnival
Beno
Hart of Baker City chosen to represent Benson at Walla Walla meeting
Salem May 3 State Senator J N Hart of Baker City is appointed by Governor Benson to attend the Washington Conservation Association meeting in Walla Walla on May 13 and 14. Governors of Oregon Washington and Idaho will participate to discuss joint plans for resource conservation.
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Salem
J. N. Hart
Baker City
Govenor Benson
Washington Conservation Association
Walla Walla
Govenora
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
La Grande urged to send band to Spokane Irrigation Congress
John Hughes, field representative for the Seven teenth National Irrigation Congress, visits La Grande to recruit a local band and marching club for parades during the Spokane meeting August 13 to 14. Officials emphasize parades replace exhibits this year to advertise the region and attract notable attendees including President Taft.
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John 8. Hughes
Board of Control
National “Irrigation Congress
Spokane
Ote City
Mr. Hughes
la Grande
Hughes
Congress
Taft
Puray Says Trolley Vote Was Worth Four Hundred Stand
San Francisco May 3 John J Puray a member of the bowling board of supervisors testified in the Calhoune Iris case that his vote on the trolley franchise was cast with a personal base in mind and would have remained the same even without compensation He identified receiving 400 dollars for his vote.
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San Francisco
Bowling Board of Supervisors
John J. Puray
Whitworth President Mocked With Hanging Effigy
Unrest at Whitworth College surfaces as a placard bearing B. H. Kroeze name appears on an effigy hanged from the Mason Library cupola. The figure, which was later ordered down, reflects months of dissatisfaction with the administration and sparked protests among students and staff.
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Tacoma
B. H. Kroeze
Whitworth College
Kroeze
Mason Library
B. H. Kreeze
T. Stuffed
Taft Cabinet Members Clash Over Land Policy
Washington May 0. Secretary Ballinger of the interior department and Secretary Wilson of Agriculture clashed over general land office policy and placed their dispute before the President. Pinchot had urged withdrawal of western lands for national forest patrol stations, but Ballinger cited legal limits, causing surprise and a potential policy showdown.
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Washington
General Land Office
Ballinger
Interior Department
Wilson
Agriculture
Pinccet
Pinchot
Bal- Mager
Land Restored in Oregon Reclamation District
Interior Secretary Ballinger restores 92000 acres in the La Grande district, withdraws 178000 in the same state. The land, not needed for irrigation, was part of the Lower Powder River and Malheur projects, originally withdrawn March 26, 1906, with Baker City interest noted.
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Ballinger
Oregon
Baker City
Powder River
Malheur
Burns Land
Mothers Day Services Planned at Presbyterian Church
Mother's Day preparations proceed at the Presbyterian Church for next Sunday. Dr. Seeman organizes committees and schedules morning and evening services to honor mothers for their deeds to the world. He invites all mothers not affiliated with other churches to attend, with a memorial note for deceased mothers. Ferguson returned home after visiting Sunday.
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Wkewise
Sone and
Dineters
Turks witness to execution in Constantinople
Thirteen plotters were executed in public today in Constantinople as soldiers and leaders were publicly struck. Thousands witnessed the scene with the condemned men dressed in white as a crowd was controlled by police and each victim raised by a pulley and strangled.
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Constantinople
May
Pallee
Milking Plant to Use 1-HP Gasoline Engine Purchase
Hugh Wilson bought a 1-horse power gasoline engine from McCully Merc. Co. to power a milking plant. He has completed a milking barn 61.24 feet long and will install the plant soon. currently milk is produced by hand.
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Hugh Wilson
McCully Merc. Co
Wilson
Thols Milkuy
Logeua Merntd
Government seeks dissolution of Union Pacific merger in Oregon
In Portland on May 4 the government began its case to force Union Pacific to prove legality of its merged interests or face dissolution. Judge Williams heard two witnesses including DC O'Reilly and William C. McBride as the aim was to show how competition in traffic was destroyed after the stock transfer. Adam Roys started work with Christiansen Bros now expanding to three chairs.
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Portland
Oregon
G Willams
Harriman
Union Pacific
Iis
O'Reilly
William C. McBride
Ita
Department
Trafic
Southern Pacific
Oregon appropriation debate stirs Willamette Valley locals
Kaiser editor Sawyer outlines a petition filed in the Willamette Valley area seeking a referendum on a legislative appropriation for Oregon Agricultural College. The action targets a proposed $210,000 improvement appropriation rather than the current $80,000 maintenance funds, with a May 22 filing deadline.
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Salw
Kaiser
Exehimnd
Sawyer
Willamette
Oregon Agricultural
Amateur Baseball League opens in Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon's amateur league opened yesterday with La Grande, Union, Huntington, and other towns. La Grande defeated Huntington 7 to 1, Perry outscored Baker City 6 to 0, and Cove defeated Union in a strong showing. Nelson pitched for Perry, highlighting the Baker City game.
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Oregon
la Grande
Union
Huntington
Perry
Baker City
Cove
Hian
Tauton
O. BR
N. Gate
Ely
Cove Trhus Union
Nelson
W. PG
la Grande Perry
Eve
Ieee
Anton Se
Ee Huntington
Burglar Steals Chief’s Trousers in Oregon City
A burglar entered Police Chief Burns residence and stole his trousers. The intruder found a second pair and fled, leaving footprints to the gate post where he located a companion named Lingle.
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Oregon City
Burns
Gayment Lingle
Bourne Rushes Home as Mother Dying at 97
United States Senator Bourne received word his mother, 97, is dying in New Bedford Maks. He left for her bedside this evening and will withhold a prepared speech on lumber to revise it in light of the family emergency.
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Senator
East
Washington
United States
Bourne
New Bedford
Maks
Bootlegger Threats Discussed in Tillamook Court
In Tillamook county an open court heard that a bootlegger threatened assassination to influence prosecutions in Hugues Silewes J. and others. He warned parties to avoid late hours and public resorts as tension rose over efforts to prosecute William Langworth for bootlegging amid many local option trials.
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Tillamook, Ore
Anmitten
Tillamook County
Hugues Silewes J. Reitles
William Langworth
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Whitworth Head
Ballinger and Wilson
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Athens
Goons Ferguson
Sandy
Adam Roys
Christiansen Bros
A.C
C. W. Parker
Amater
Perry and Cove
la Grande Perry and
League
Perry Springs
Surprise
Bourne’s
Bootleccers
Galloway
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