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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
1
Estrada's revolutionary forces hold a last line to stop capture of Bluefields customs house as three days of skirmishing intensify. The Paducah gunboat guards foreigners and delays by Commander Gilmer, while residents seek consular protection amid reports of heavy losses and possible pillage if the city falls.
New Orleans headed by Governor Sanders and about a dozen state officials depart in an eleven car special to lobby in Washington for New Orleans as the site of the planned Panama canal exposition, opposed by San Francisco.
Miss Mary Harriman daughter of the railroad magnate and Charles Cary Ramsey of Buffalo artist and sculptor will wed tomorrow at the Episcopal church in Arden. Due to mourning for R B H Harriman the ceremony will be a quiet affair.
Explosion at the Hitt Fireworks plant in the Columbus City area near Seattle injures two, with a firefight burning debris and delaying response. No deaths reported. Fire departments dispatched, losses pegged around 10000 dollars.
Glenn Curtiss travels to Ploughkeepsie to choose a landing site for a planned 143 mile flight from Albany to New York. The attempt aims to win a $10,000 prize offered by the New York World, with two allowed descents.
Divers work on the sunken dry dock Dewey near Manila as efforts continue to raise it. Officials suggest the accident may have resulted from employees leaving valves open, though the exact cause remains undetermined.
Yakima district leaders from Yakima Benton and Kittitas counties convene at Toppenish to organize a campaign to recruit laborers for peach harvest hop training and upcoming wheat work as the peach crop nears ripening. Merchants worry over securing sufficient workers as the labor shortage intensifies.
In La Grande banker Scriber’s trial Attorney Alexander McMahon questioned ex president Walter M. Pierce of Grande Ronde Electric about his character during his tenure at the company and as Umatilla County clerk. The exchange remained verbal with no blows at recess. The state plans to finish rebuttal and begin closing arguments, with a jury verdict likely tomorrow.
Madrid and Washington dispatches report anarchists admitted planning and executing bomb outrages linking to a broader revolutionary threat. King Alfonso’s life is said to be in danger, with police fortification and barracks reinforced amid rising unrest and a jailed editor’s alleged revelations intensifying consternation.
Jurors for the June term of the circuit court were drawn today. The list includes R McKenzie Summerville James McClure Ladd Canyon Dunham Wright Cove C G Wyatt Elgin Henry McGoldrick Imbler J A Gaskill Alicel J A Pilcher North Powder A H Sullivan Starkey C J Forestfilm Valon Wm Hazlewood Elgin W J Church La Grande Jas Goble Medical Springs John Collier La Grande C A Hill Telecast W A Haggerty Union W A Hugg Elgin L J Hughes Union E H Shaw Island City Jas Peach La Grande Leland Mackay La Grande J Van Buren La Grande W H Morelock Elgin J A Graybea Kamera Wm Eubanks Summerville W J Townley Union John McNehan Island City E Polack La Grande D A MeVters Hilgard
A broken rail on the Rio Grande caused two coaches to derail at Cuchara Junction Colorado on May 25. Eighteen people were injured in the incident.
The case of Mrs. Hannah Smith grows stranger after undertaker E. E. Erickson admits writing the fake telegram signed in her name and sent from Los Angeles. Investigators say a letter Erickson wrote to a friend asks for a requested telegram delivery. District Attorney Cameron probes the matter as the widow had been missing since May 8. accuser claims a $12,000 debt, which Erickson denies.
An innovation for the State Editorial Association includes a business session on a special Baker City train over the Sumpter Valley railroad. The June 17 18 gathering will feature tours across the Grande Ronde valley dinners at the Baker City Commercial Club and address by notable editors and mayors.
Forty Union business men touring Grand Ronde Valley visited La Grande and joined locals at the Foley hotel for a four hour dinner of unmatched enthusiasm and goodwill. The caravan arrived by eight autos, banners announced the Union stock show on June 4, and the gathering aimed to boost county towns and the coming horse show.
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