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LillfcKifcdrV.ajAfctfc.fc-t---ir,--Til rill .11 .J- 1. mi I.'. i i i n ir r - r m 'ii i nn KlimmiEini,iiu..:Lai..ntf"ff-i'ft'iirri -n-r -mr -'-'i' -n-- -t f W IwX Mfc'WM tfte-f V SW Mn EIGHT PAGES. PAILT EAST OREGON! AX, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY S, 1012. page rme. Cle&E-ip Sale In Our Ready-to -Wear Section 23 Mixture Coats that sold at $27.50. 27 Black Broadcloth Coats, regular to $25.00. 43 Suits, Ladies' and Misses, values to $30.00. Your Choice of the Entire Lot Don't wait. This is your last and biggest chance. FliivengoodCo. Tho Ladies' and Children's Store. PERSONAL MENTION LOCALS Past1 me pictures please all. Main 178 for coal and wood. For alfalfa hay call , N. Joerger. I. C. Snyder.chlmney sweep. R 3812. Tou should have the Melrose Sys tem. For clean coal and dry wood, phone Main S. - Phone Koplttke & Gillanders, for dry wood and Rock Spring coal. - Everybody goes to tne orpheum to see the best and thn clearest pictures. Clean beds and airy rooms, furnace heated, including bath, at 621 Willow street. All kinds of good dry wood, also clean nut or lump Rock Spring coal at Koplttke & Gillanders. 480 acre wheat ranch, one as good as in the country for the money. Price only 40 per acre. Teutsch & Bick ers. 160 acre wheat ranch; 80 acres in - grain; good small house and shod barn. Prlco only $3260. Teutsch & Bickers. For Rent Six room house, modern. Hot and cold water, both, toilet, woodshed, etc. Enquire Dr. C. J. "Whittaker. Speclnl rates to horses boarded by the week or month at the Commercial Barn, 620 Aura street. Phone Main 13. Also dry wood for sale. Probably President Taft was wise ' to be diplomatic though the aver age American feels like taking a shot at the Bear. If you want to move, call Penland Bros. Transfer, phone M 339. Large dray moves you quick. Trash hauled once a week. 647 Main street. For transfer work, hauling bag gage, moving household goods and pianos, and all kinds' of job work, phone Main 461. B. A. Morton. Save yourself fuel troubles by us ing our famous Rock Spring coal and good dry wood. Delivered promptly. Ben L. Burroughs, phone Main 6. Five room house, all modern im provements, completely furnished, west end of town. $20 per month. En quire Bentley & Lefflngwell, 815 Main street. For genuine Mexican chill and hot Jtnmales go to the Headlight Restau rant, 126 V. Webb ft. Open from 5 a. m. to 12 p. m. Short orders of all kinds. Boxes for ladies. Lost Saturday on the north side of the river a ladles' small gold rope necklace with rectangular jade pend ant. Finder please return to "A" this office. Reward. terns. All I ask is send name and address at once. I then send, all charges paid. 20 packages of beau tifully colored art post cards, all dif ferent, to sell at 10c a packet. When sold send us the $2.00 and we will positively send you these handsome curtains without one cent of cost. PACIFIC MFG. CO.. 705 1st Avenue, Seattle Attention. Hereafter Daphne Circle, W. O. V.. wl!l meet the second and fourth Thursdays of each month in the Moose hall. S. J. M'BRIAN, Clerk. Modern Brotherhood Attention. The M. B. of A will have a public installation of officers followed by a free entertainment In the Eagle- Woodmun hall Thursday evening. commencing at 8 o'clock. Come and bring your friends. MURDERED HAIIY BOY EOUXD XEAil ASTORIA Infant of Two Pays Thought to Huvc Ifcvn Killed Willi Acid. Astoria, Ore. The dead body of a boy baby apparently aoout two days old, wrapped In a sheet, was found near the Grange Hall at Lewis and Clark. Particulars were not obtain able until late yesterday, as the dis covery was kept secret unt'l yester day. Coroner Gilbaugh brought In the body. Everything points to mur dor, as an examination of the body re vials the fact that the inside of the baby's mouth is burned as if acid had been poured into It There was no ex terior marks of violence. A New Year's dance was in pro gress at the hall Sunday night and ono of the women present made the grewsome discovery. Xo clew has yet been found. X. P. ROAD DISTRIBUTES XEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION'S Mr. and Mrs. J. Hurley of Eolse, are guests of the Bowman. T. W. King of La Grande, is over from his Union county home. George Tonkin, county school su pervisor. Is paying Pendleton a vir.lt. Circuit Judge G. W. Phelps is back from a trip, to Portland and Astoria. A. b; Carlton of Walla Walla was over from the Garden City last eve ning. C. J. Ward of Stanfleld, was am- f ng the west enders In the city yesterday. J. W. Wilcoxson was among the Walla Walla people In the city yes terday. Sam Weathers of Umatilla, is am ong the out of town visitors In the city today. Herman Beverly, formerly an Athe na attorney, is up from his present lo cation at Portland. Marvin Watts, the Athena miller, was an incoming passenger on the lo cal this morning. Ernest Knight returned last night from Portland where he has spending the holidays. ! St, Paul, Minn. The Northern Pa ; clfic Dining Car Department has is j sued a little wall plaque made of su ! gar carrying a resolution for 1912, I reading as follows: "I hereby prom I ise that whenever the opportunity presents itself, I will use the superior passenger service offered by the Northern Pacific railway and partake of the high class dining car service rendered on Its trains." The plaque Is In the shape of a sh'eld about seven Inches long and is equ pped with a metal ring affixed to the back for hanging It up. Friends and former patrons of the road have been t-ent one of these greetings en closed in a neat pasteboard box let tered in gold with 1912 New Year's greeting. LESS WOOL AXD LOWER PRICES. Tho Production In tho United States Foil Orr 2,818,000 Pounds in 1911. Boston. The total domestic wool clip for 1911, exclusive of pulled wool, is 277,547,900 pounds, as esti mated by the National Association of Wool Manufacturers In its annual re view. This is a decrease of 3,814,850 pounds from last year's output. The estimate of pulled wool. for 1911 is 41 million pounds, making the total wool production for the country 318,- been 547,900 pounds, or 2,818,850 pounds less than in 1910. The value of the from Athena this morning for transaction o business, , Mrs. Eleanor Redfield has returned to La Grande after spending Year's Day In ,the city. S. Fred Wilson, Attorney Homer I Watts came down Product Is estimated at $66,571,337, the or nearly 6 minion less tnan tnat oi 19170. The number of sheep for shearing In the United States on April 1 1. 1911, the association estimates was n e w i 39,761,000 or 2,238,500 less than in 1 A 1 A banker-politlcian of Athena, is a bus iness visitor In Pendleton today. A?a B. Thomson, well known Echo business man, came in yesterday from his home and spent the night here. H. M. ockburn, county commis sioner, came down from Milton this morning to attend the meeting of the county court. S. D. Peterson, representative for Umatilla county, came- down froiri his home at Milton this morning and is transacting legal business in the city today. Miss Minnalena Cameron has turned to her home at Heppner after visiting. In La Grande and Pendleton. While here she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. W. Fletcher. Edmund Mable, manager of the lo cal telephone office, Is enjoying a visit from his mother and cousin who arrived on New Year's day from New York. Mr. Mable has rented a house on south Thompson street and his rel atives will spend the winter with him there. The average value per scoured pound of the domestic wool clip for 1911 is 47.7 cents, as compared with ! 51 cents in 1910, 63 6 cents in 1909, 46.6 cents in 1908, and 62.3 cents in 1907. WOMEX GET VOTES CHEAP. 15.3 Cents a Head is Campaign Cost; Men Usually Spend $2.30. Los Angeles, Calif. It cost the wo men of California 15.3 cents a vote to win their fight for equal suffrage at the recent state election, according to reports given out at the headquar ters of the Southern California Po litical Equality League. Men politicians admit $2.30 a vite i3 cheap for campaigns. The women's reports show that $13,000 was spent from Fresno south. The women leaders said they learned that "Just about an equal amount" was spent in Northern California. FIGHT SXAKES AMID FIRE. TRAM I GIVES AX ALARM; SAVES MANY FROM FIRE Inee Curtains Free. Large, beautiful Nottingham lace curtains 2 3-4 yards long, elegant pat- XOTICE FOR RIDS FOR SEWER COXSTRUCTIOX. RcHOiior After Arousing Sleeping - Hoarder Jump on Freight Train to Resume Travel. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 3. Sleep ing, bl'ssfully ignorant of the fact that tho main portion of the Park Hotel, a railroad men's boarding house, was in flames, occupants of the burning building were rescued by an unknown tramp. The man, attracted by the blaze, dropped off a passing freight train, saw the situation and pounded on the doors until he awogo Fred Briggs, who owned the place. A hurried exit followed, nobody having time to don clothing. When his heroic work was done the hobo ran down the tracks to overtake the slow moving freight, which had not yet left the railroad yards. WHISKY STILL IS UTILIZED. Notice fs hereby given, that the Common Council, on the 20th day of December, 1911, adopted plans and specifications for the construction of a sewer with appropriate Y'a and manholes running north on Hazel street from its intersection with Court itreet to a point near the north line ofthe O.-W. R. & N, company's right of way where the same intersects Ha Eel street, which plans and specifica tions are now on file in the office of the undersigned. Notice Is further given that the Ommon Council will receive propos als for the construction of the said sewer extension In the form provided by the specifications- up to the 10th day of January, 1912, at 5 o'clock p. m. Bids to be filed In the office of the undersigned. Each bid to be ac companied by certified check In the sum of $100, payable to the Mayor of the City of Pendleton, to be returned If the bidder is unsuccessful and to be forfeited In case bidder Is success ful, shall fall to enter Into a contract in accordance with the terms of his bid. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. THOMAS FITZ GERALD. Recorder. Revenue Officers Capture Illicit Liqu or Plant on Ranch Xear Pctuluuui. Pntaluma. Revenue officers Geo. B Baer and W. J. Dilaney, working under Chief Officer D. M. Thomas, seized an illicit distillery on the S. Gllardi ranch on the Sonoma moun tains, iney carried away a complete ouiut, wnich has been deDo.sited in th nonaea warehouse here to be usmt as evidence by the Federal authorities. The Gllardi ranch Is high ud in the mountains In the center of a dairv district where there are . several creameries and where dairymen con gregate to dispose of their product. Firemen in Burning Bird Store Inad vertently Release ReipUles. San Antonio, Tex. While copper heads, rattlers and adders writhed over the floor and trantulas and other poisonous insects darted here and there, firemen fought a blaze in the bird and snake store of W. O. Leary. The reptiles were liberated when the streams of water shattered the boxes in which they were confined. Five hundred parrots were suffo cated and 350 snakes were roasted. secoxd victim; OF IIARXEY SHOOTIXG DIES Burns, Or. Robert Settlemyre, who was shot by Jack Taylor in the shoot ing scrape at the Elmer Carlson ranch near Andrews a week ago, when a man named Perry was killed and Settlemyre was wounded, died from the effects of the wound receiv ed from a 45-caliber revolver. He lived only a few days from the time of the shooting. Taylor Is now In Jail in this city. Robert Settlemyre was a, well respected citizen of Harney county, where he had lived for 15 years. FUXSTOX PREFERS HELMETS FOR MEX Washington. Head covering has a good deal to do with making a sol dier, in the opinion of Brigadier Gen eral Funston. Based on his experi ence as commander of the depart ment of Luzon, he strongly favors the helmet as against the campa'gn hat, pointing to the fact that the British soldiers, who have had much experi ence In the trops still stick to the helmet and can drill and fight with out knocking it off. ' American soldiers, General Funston remarks, use the campaign hat as pil lows too often, and consequently pre sent an untidy appearance. Rare Bargains Sn CLEAN -DESIRABLE MERCHANDISE The greatest bargain event of the year Every article in the store reduced in price Warm Blanke's, Comforts, Wa:m Underwear and Hosiery all go at a great Saving All SUITS to go at HALF PRICE ake Early Advantage Tc WohJenberg Dep't. Store Better Goods for Less Money she has an uncle living In Montana, and that a few years agi. she married a man in that state by the name of Carter, from whom she separated soon after her marr'age, which she declares she was forced to enter Into by her uncle and aunt. She had been bound over to the dis trict court for trial on the charge of stealing a horse from a ranch near Bruneau in Owyhee county and was awaiting trial on that charge. The Melrose System. IDAHO GIRL HORSE THIEF IS SEXT TO AX ASYLUM Blackfoot, Idaho. A pathetic era in the life of Marian Kirkpatrlck has come with her commitment to the state asylum for insane at Blackfoot. M'ss Kirkpatrlck is the girl who stole a horse in Owyhee county, rode it to Boise and sold It for $45. Women of Boise heard her stout defense and took up her defense, and she was re leased on bond and taken into the home of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Christian of the Chlldhen's home. It then de veloped she had stolen another horse and that her fondness for the animals overbalanced her Judgment. In the hearing it developed that WAIT ! Wait and watch for our great Clearance Announcement, in a few days. Clothing and Furnishing s are sold here every day at Pendleton's lowest prices, Imt, there will be something REAL doing when our Clearance Sale starts. Watch our windows, watch our ad, and WAIT. VorkingmEn's Clothing Company Lowest Prices for Best Men's Wear. Robots Are Dispersed. El Paso. Texas, Jan. 8. Active campaigning against the Zaplstas in wi uues oi .rueDia, Morelos and COAL BAROXS FEAR A uuerrero, is reported here. PRESIDEXT GIVES TWO COXVICTS TIIEIK FREEDOM Washington, Jan. 3. President Taft today commuted to expire at once the life sentences of Arthur Adams and Robert Sakyer, two negro British sub jects convicted at Wilmington, N. C, In 7906, of murder on the high seas. In a confession before his conviction Henry Scott, another negro convicted of the same crime, exonerated Adams and Sawyer. Originally Adams and Sawyer were sentenced to death, but this was com muted by President Roosevelt to life Imprisonment. The prisoners were natives of the British West Indies and the British ambassa iox intervened to I secure consideration of the pleas for ' executive clemency. The mTffTIers were committed on tho American schooner A. H. Ber wind, whose four white officers mas ter, engineer, mate and cook and one negro seaman, were killed while the vessel disabled by stormy weath er, was off the coast of North Caro lina, October 10, 1909. During the voyage a controversy arose between the master and tho sailors over food and other matters. After the five men had been murdered Adams and Sawyer succeeded in overpowering Scott. They signalled a passing vessel and all three were delivered Into cus tody at Southport, N. C. The reb els appear to have been dispersed in every ngagment. A force of forty three rurales of the tenth corps was ambushed in a mountain pass in the state of Puebla, Monday, by 200 Za plstas, but fought their way out with a loss of five. General Equiallg and Casso Lopes are operating against the rebels in the vicinity of Cuatla and have been engaged in severe fighting since Saturday, the ' rebels making short stands and then fleeing Into the mountains. The town of Huquaech ua of Puebla was taken by Zapatist as Sunday and completely sacked. Five hundred were In this party and a large detachment of federal troops are now moving against them, Leap year, ladies but that won't make any difference to most of you STRIKE OF MINE WORKERS New York, Jan. S. In fear of pre parations for another gigantic strike by 150,000 miners in the anthracite region, coal barbns, through familiar channels, have started -a publicity campaign. A statement Is being sent broadcast that the operators are pre paring to strike In the spring, indicat ing that they will resist any effort of the United Mine Workers of America to gain any change in conditions for the miners. Usually tlio Way. "I bought this armchair on the in stallment plan." "Easy terms?" "Rather! A dollar down and a dol lar whenever the collector can catch me." Boston Transcript. THE MUSICAL EVENT OF THE SEASOX. Oratorio Concert UK7 IF IT I A O ' 5 (by Felix Mendelssohn BarUioldy.) given by the Royal College of Porpora CllOral SOCiety With Special Orchestra (Prof. Charles Ovido Blakeslee, Director.) TEe First Christian Church Friday Evening, January 5th SOLO PERSOtfELLE. Elijah, Mr. John E. Keefe, jr. ; Obadiah, Mr. Frank Hayes ; Tho Widow, Mrs. J. S. Landers ; Tho Second Angel, Mrs. J. S. Landers; An Angel, Mrs. J. R Dickson; Ahal, Mr. Richard Mayberry; Tho Youth, Mrs. Maud Gray Swingle; Angel?, Mr. Hays, Mr. Mayberry, Mrs. Landers, Mrs. Swingle, Mr. Dickson, Miss Edna Zim merman, Mr. Kecfo and Mr. Charles AY. rhn-n. Starts promptly at 8 p. m. Admission, ".V; children, 3r