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PAOK TEX. DAILY EAST OREOONTAN", PENDLETON; OTCEOON, SATURDAY, MARCH S, 1912. TEN PAGES Your Dollars Garry a 1 Great Weight at this Store Every staple and fancy ar ticle in the way of groceries. Every seasonable fruit and vegetable that Is placed on the market Is Fsand Hers Firsl Careful attention given to all phone orders. A cheerful and sanitary store, with everything displayed well for your easy choosing, makes this store the most advantageous grocery for YOUR marketing. Phone Main 98. Standard Grocery Company, Inc. Where all are pleased. Frank O'Gara, President. Bernard O'Gara, Sec.-Treaa. HIGH SCHOOL TEAFtl BEATS BUSINESS If) GAME IX COMMERCIAL " CLUB GYM WAS SWIFT Ilouscr secured the last basket of the game and made his total fifteen, he brought his. aggregate score for the ten games in which he baa partici pated this ycad up to on even 100. For the Commercial team, Asbahr was the best point getter, though Hartman and Drake, each of whom played a half, were close seconds. The Jine-up of the loam was as fo.lows: High school, Fee and Hous er center; Strain and McDonald, for wards; Fee, Houser end Hampton, guards. Commercial club. Farrell. center; Asbahr, Drake and Hartman, forwards; Graham and Chessman, guards. Referee, Sturdlvant. ECHO OFFICER QUITS AND BECOMES FARMER (Special Correspondence.) -Echo, Ore., Mar. I. Perry Whit worth, city marshal of Echo for the past two years, has resigned his po sition and a'so sold his Interest In the Arlineton lodging house. He is mak ing reparations to move to the coun trv. having rented a small farm on the river south of town. John Brackenburry has been ap pointed city marshal. He has been deputy for some time past. Mtl'.ard Hewett, owner of the Red Express dray, has sold tots, business to Tom Deweese and has purchased the Arlington lodging rooms which he will personally conduct in the fu ture. Mesdames A. Longwell and J. F, Spinning, spent yesterday in Pendleton. Judge Warren R. Parker left yes terday for his home at Buhl, Idaho, after a tshort visit here with W. H Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Johnson spent yesterday visiting with friends ' in Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. James McLaughlin and sons left yesterday for a. week end visit with relatives at Pilot Rock. Mr. and Mrs. John Schmltj are over-Sunday Pendleton visitors. Miss Nellie Darr and Miss Irene Rippey are visiting with friends at Hermiston over Sunday. Miss AnnaWaugh and Mrs. C. A. Gilbert were passengers to Pendleton on the motor this morning. Mrs. Alice Elder of Pendleton and Mrs. Matel Edward of Nolin, were here yesterday visiting with Miss An na Waugh. Mrs. Agnes Wigle and son Dyral are visiting today in Pendleton. O. D. Teel Is transacting business In Pendleton today. PERSONAL MENTION Guy Covey of Irrigon is registered at the St. George. E. R. Rankin of Heppner, Is a bus iness visitor in the city. . Ernest Knight came in this morn ing from his ranch' near Helix. Rev. H. S. Shangle of Milton, came in yesterday from his east end home. Ed Rlngle of Helix was among the passengers on the Incoming N. P. this morning. Nell Sherman of Athena, was am ong the visitors transacting business In Pendleton yesterday. Miss Sadie Young was an incoming passenger on the Northern Pacific lo cal this morning. miss ness ualiogly, high school teacher at Stanfield, is visiting with mends in the city today. . W. T. Reeves of Stanfield, came up from hia home In the west end last evening and spent the night here. J. D. Casey, mayor, mill owner and t-i uii,-iii uiuzen or migara, came down yesterday from his mountain nome. E. N. Wheeler, well known business man of Stanfield, spent yesterday In the city, returning , to his home last evening. Iheodore Olson, well known horse- uuyer of Missoula, Montana, is mak ing Pendleton one. of his regular vis 113. Mrs. H. G. Newport and Mrs. Irwin of Hermiston, were among the resi dents of the project town arriving in the city yesterday. . 'Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Jackson of Eu gene are visiting with relatives in this county. Mr. Jackson Is a brother of Mrs. Dan Shaw of McKay while Mrs. Jackson is a sister of Mrs. Sarah Real, well known Pendleton resident who has been quite ill lately. Newsy Notes of Pendleton Ono Marriage, IJiicnso. The first day after the leap day of the leap year was marked by the is suance of one marriage license here in Umatilla county, the couple secur ing it being Ed Lyday and Pearl Pat ton of this city. Moving to Portland. Louis Hagen, who for thirty-four years has been farming north of this city, today is answering the call of the city and with his wife and daugh ter is leaving 'for Portland where they will live In the future. He will still keep his land but will let some one else manage it. Potter Fined Ton SHU Clarence Potter, the man accused yesterday of disorderly conduct by the proprietor of the Palace Lodging house, was convicted yesterday after noon lu .police court and sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars or serve a five day sentence in the city bastlle. He chose the former alternative. Thro Drunks in Court. The police court docket this morn ing consisted of three drunks, Ed ward Lackwod, Stella Williams, the notorious squaw, and Robert McCon nell. The last named forfeited ball of $5 but the two" former went to jail for three days. , Youth and Tram Work of Students Too Mitch for Softened 3'embers of Boosters' Club Another Game Proposed. In the -game between the high school end Commercial Club basket ball teams lat night, youth triumph ed, for the scholastics came out vic tors by the score of 51 to 32, thus de fending their title as champions of eastern Oregon. The game was not as fa.it as some that have been played in the city but it was full of interest from start to finish. The academic players won their victory by superior merits, outclass ing their opponents In team work, passing and basket shooting but the business men are not at all discour aged over the outcome for they point out that they succeeded in' rolling up the largest score made this season against the champions. Another sme will probablv be arranged In the near future. The first half started at a rapid Injured F.x-Pcndlctonian Improving. John Young, a former well known young man of this city who suffered the fracture of one of his legs In three places wljUe employed by the tele phone company in La Grande six months, ago, Is now almost recovered from the accident .according to his aunt, Mrs. Dan Shaw of McKay who Is In the city today. RENEWAL OF TOXG WAR EXPECTED IX FRISCO San Francisco. Mar. 2. The police are prepared for a renewal of the tong war, as the truce entered into recently, is declared off and gunmen of the tongs are out. The Hop Sings are fighting three other tongs, follow ing their refusal to pay an Indemnity ! or deliver the slayers of. gunmen of rival organizations. CORSET SPURNED n' -LEADERS FOR SUFFRAGETTES Discovery Made in New Y'ork Tliat Ijuvs and Stayg Have Boon Dis carded Forever by Women Iicsullng Demand for Ballot. New York. The suffcagettes are willing to exchange corsets for votes. Many of them already have given up their stays for no remuneration, ex cept that they can work for the cause more comfortably without them. The discovery was made at the suffrage bazaar, where there was a voting booth to select the most popular suf fragette. The prize was "a valuable corset." Now the suffragettes say no corset is valuable. Miss Inez Milholland was in the lead, and many were the dimes ex pended to buy votes for her; but sud denly some one who knew gave up the Information that never had corset bound Miss Milho'.land's trim waist. Miss Fo'a La Follette, daughter of the Wisconsin senator; Miss Caroline Lexow, Miss Anna Tinkor, Mis Eliza beth Coo , , vice president of the Wo man's Political union; Mrs. Lee de Forest, Miss Elizabeth Burcheneal, di rector of girls' athletics In the public schools; Mrs. Robert Adamson, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Mar DIAZ t WOULD RETURX AXD SAVE MEXICO New York, N. Y.. Mar. 2. Former President Diaz, who was driven from the presidency of Mexico by the forc es led by Francisco Mader6, present president of the republic who now has a revolt on bis hands, ls ready to return to the country from which he was exiled, to lead his people out of their troubles, according . to a state ment given out here by a close and trusted friend of Diaz. The former president is now in the southern part of France. ISOLD BANK ROBBER IS FATALLY WOUNDED t I i n a nil f.iF 'j f .iu m inii'nti If 1 (cVai1 as if the Commercial club would beiearet Lawrence, Miss Vida Sutton of swamped, fur.' by fast work, the school boys shot basket after basket. However, the older men soon settled down to business and divided hon ors in the scoring during the rest of the half. The score In this canto was, High school, 28, Commercial club, 14. The second half was a better ex "hibnion and was much closer than itbe first, the business men succeeding n annexing IS points while their op ponents scored 23. In the beginning nf tlila half, the Commercials took a spurt and It looked for a few min utes as if they would overtake the youngsters, but the greater speed and better wind of th latter told in their favor. For the fcteh school. Fee and Hous- rr were the nest point wmnere, -.ta.kinz down from their positions at center and guard and dropping the ball through the hoop with great regularity. The former scored 18 points and the latter fifteen. When Denver, March 2.-Boldly entering i . . . . . . . niw Aurora mate Dante, at Aurora, a suburb, a lone robber today held up cashier v ehn at a revolver Dolnt. seized $800 and escaped by jumping into an ice wagon and driving away, meanwhile shooting at his pursuers. He was finally cornered in a barn and wounded. He surrendered and will probably die. He gives the name ol G rod it Briggs. PLAY BALL BUT PLAY WITH THE CORK CENTER BALL THE OFFICIAL BALL OP THE WORLD SERIES Chicago and other prominent in the suffrage cause whose names were mentioned, it developed, did not wear them, either. Miss Milholland admitted being a member of the new movement "I wish all women could grasp the importance of this reform," said Miss Milholland, "in the interests of Im proved health. Particularly shop girls and all working women would be im mensely benefited by saner dress." "I hope and expect that the suf frage movement will bring out a re form in dress," said Mrs. Blatch. "Take it from the standpoint of beau ty the Venus de Mllo, Ideal of artists, did not wear corsets. What more ug'.y and distressing sight can you fancy than a fat woman with her waist laced in and her hips standing out?' "This movement toward a saner dress Is as important as the work for the ballot " said Miss Vida Sutton, the University of Chicago lecturer and dramatist. "We are as barbaric In dress as the savage." declared Miss Button, "we pinch in our waists and condemn the Chinese for plncbii;g their feet" $15 Reward. Will be paid for the following de scribed animal delivered at the Tele phono Feed Barn,- Pendleton: Bay horse colt, three years old this spring, heavy, blocky built, branded R L on left shoulder, star in face, white hind foot. Strayed from Capt. Kid's pas ture on McKay creek. Alfred Lalng. ORGAN RECALLS MARK TWAIX It School Attendance Good. Counry School Superintendent F. K. Welles has just received the montly report from the heads of the different schools over the county and these reports show that the attend ance during the last thirty days has been unusually good. In most In stances averaging more than 95 per cent. Here in Pendleton the average just passed the 95 mark, Iog License Tags Arrive. Chief of Police John Kearney to day received the 1912 supply of dog license tags which he ls now ready to dispense to the owners of canines at so much per. He also received a letter from -Harry Hart, the well known dog catcher, who states that he "will arrive in Pendleton about April 1 to commence his harvest of delinquent dogs. Miss Kierg Entertained. ' Little Elva Kupers, 11 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kupers, was the hostess at a party given last Saturday at lier home at 115 Long street. It was in honor of her friends in the sixth grade of the Washington school. Games were played, refreshment served and the party was a decided success from the standpoint of all the children pres We Have Branched Out Besides ordering a swell line of the BEST CLOTHING MADE for our Spring and Summer tiade, we have also established a Made to Order Clothing Department AC you ore extra particular and don't happen to find Just what you want in our stock, Jut choose the pattern and choose the stylo and we'll have It made to fit you exact. - No small samples to choose from here, but the cloth comes in large quarter length swatches, enabling you to see Just how your cout or pants will look, when made up. CALL AXD LEARN MORE; ALSO NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL PATTERN'S IN WINDOW. Vorkingmen's Clothing Company Comer Main and Webb Streets 8f taken out contracts with him and their big green signs which they are displaying in front of their stores might be taken for decorations in honor of the approaching St. Pat rick's Day. Some of the premiums which are to bo given away are being exhibited in the Alexander windows. Special Rates for S. S. Convention. For the convention of the Umatilla County Sunday school association which will be held In Hermiston next week, the O.-W. R. & N. company has signified its willingness to grant a one and a third round tflp fare on the certificate plan providing fifty tickets will bo guaranteed. Will Attend Wrestltnaf Match. A gid many of local sport fans will tMke the motor this afternoon to Hermiston in order to take in the wrestling bout between Jack Ken nedy and Eddie O'Connell of Portland which will bo pulled oft In tho project town tonight. Baker heck AnM Caught Here. A. L. Smith, alias Wilson alias a few other names, is now one of the Inmates of the local county Jail, due to Sheriff Taylor's vigilance. He was notified-Tiy Itaker authorities to be on the lookout for a bad check artist who had been operating In that city and this morning picked up the man as he stepped off the westbound train. He la also wanted In Coeur d'Alene'and Vancouver on the same charge. play ground. Poplar trees have been planted along three sides to serve as wind breaks as well as beautiflcrs and irrigation pipes have been laid. Henry Sommcrer, well known young rancher, is the clerk of this district and is largely responsible for the progressive ideas being carried out. GralngTOwers' Election. At a meeting of the Umatilla Grain growers' association, held at the Com mercial club rooms today the organi zation for the coming year was form ed by. the reelection of C. A. Barrett, president; H. J. Taylor, vice presi dent; J. O. Hales, secretary, Hug Bell and Joe Hanscom, directors.. The at tendance at the session today was small. Some times ago the association purchased some grain bags at seven cents and later another purchase was made at eight and a fourth cents. It's a Dog-Gone Shame Mrs. Hemmelgarn Wins Piano. In the voting contest conducted by the Pendleton Drug company for the beautiful piano which has been ex hibited for several months in its store, Mrs. Ed Hemmelgarn was de clared the winner when the contest ended yesterday. The finish was an exciting one but Mrs. Hemmelgarn came out ahead with the safe margin nf mora than 500.000, her total being 1.812.250, while that, of her nearest competitor. Miss Copeland. was 1, 292.610. Mrs. Cheney ended third of the list, her final vote being 1,169,930. A Progretiilvc School District. Although one of the youngest school districts in the county, Dist trlct No. 112 which lies near the Hermiston reservoir is gaining tho reputation of being one of the most progressive in the whole county. When the school was built In the fall of 1909, the most modern equipment was installed and now the board is giving Its nttentlon to the school grounds. According to a plat receiv ed by the county superintendent, the grounds about the school have been laid out, provision made for a garden, tennis lawn, swings and chutes for the primary children, and a large Cork h&l Center SPAS-DING "OFFICIAL NATIONAL LEAGUE" The Corl; Center Bill $1.23 Each Cork Onler base balls will be used jn all World Series games to come for the next Twenty Years. Opt of ptldin:jCtIofu free on requet . to nnjr ad'treu. Bend for smjirt of Be TUll Material I tor Uniforms. Free. A. a. SPALDING & BROS. 158 deary Street San Francisco PIK KNOCKS OUTfBANDIT. Denver, Colo. A masked bandit came to grief when he waa hit square ly In the face with a hot custard pie while he was looting the cash draw er In a down town restaurant. Just as the robber entered the place Miss Ina Mouat, In charge of the place at nitrht. walked forward from the kitchen In the rear. In each band she carried a steaming hot custard pie. "Hold up your hands," command ed the robber. "I won't drop these pies for any villlan like you," she replied. "I don't care what you do with the pies, but don't move," the hold-up man said as he turned toward the rash register. The young woman saw her opportunity and hurled one of the pies at him. The soft part of the pie struck him squarely and the surprised robber dashed through the kitchen and disappeared. - Humorist Helped Kam Instrument Church Now Discards. Carlisle, Pa, The removal of the old orgap from the Second Prcsbyte rlan church recalls the fact that was purchased with funds raised by a lecture course In which Mark Twain was one of the principal entertain ers. On the night of his lecture Twain held his. audience in suspense by being half fyl hour late. General Lemuel Todd, who had been assign ed to Introduce the humorist, was growing restle3s and everybody was fidgety. When Twain at last stepped on the platform he did not give General Todd an opportunity of presenting him. Merely nodding to Todd, Twain said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I under stand that your esteemed townsman General Todd has been asked to in troduce me to you. However, as I know myself better than any one else I believe I am better qualified to pre sent myself." Then he kept his audience in an uproar for more than two hours. Rends Bryan's Speech, Misses Train. Tommy Duncan, popular and well known traveling man for Wadhams & Co., Is one of the knights of the grip who pride themselves on never missing a train but this morning the orfl, old saying about pride going be fore a fail was exemplified only In this case It was pride going before a miss. He was sitting in the St. George waiting for the Wal'a Walla train and to while away the moments picked up an Oregon Journal and scanned the pages. In the course of his perusal, his eye caught the head- lino "10,000 Sw'ayed by W. J. Bryan, Silver Tongued Orator," and. being an ardent admirer of the Peerless Leader, he was soon deep In the story told of the Commoner's visit to Port land, go engrossed did he become In the message which the greatest dem ocrat brought to Oregon that his train steamed out of the city and It was not until after It was well out of the limits that the raveling man fin ished he speech and found his long record broken. WRKCK IS LAID TO GRUDGE. For Sale Good milk cow and rub-ber-t'red buggy and harness. Inquire 17 8 College street. Greasing of Ralls, Resulting In Four DcatlM, Act of Former Railroader. Salt Lake City. Utah. That a for mer employe with a grudge caused the wrecking of a train by greasing rails, the death of four men, the In Jury of nine others and the destruc tion of two buildings at Bingham. Utah, on February "6 is the conclu sion drawn by Denver & Rio Grande Ral'road officials. Information brought out at a company Investiga tion was submitted to the county at torney, together with the name of the suspeced , train wrecker. Roth Upholstered. Laying aside the dally paper, Mr. Barown observed: "A padded over coat saved a man'i life in an automo bile accident." "Yes." heplied Mr. Brown, "and the article mentions that his wife, who was struck on the hip also es caped serious Injury " Judge. Indian ISulldoiggcr to Rodeo. John Thomas, well known young Undian of the local reservation and son of "Senator" Mitchell Thomas, yesterday purchased a ticket to Los Angeles and will leave Sunday night for the southern California ' city, where he will enter the bulldogglng contests of the Rodeo. ' Toung Thom as hag been practicing the art of throwing a steer at his counsln's ranch and declares he has adopted a meth od of. his own by which to bring a "long horn" to earth. lie is a pow erful young fellow and, according to reports of his prowess should piove a strong contestant for prizes in the bulldogglng contests. 'Major Lee Moorhouse gave him a letter of com mendation to present to hls'son, Mark Moorhouse, who ls assisting In the presentation of the Los Angeles show. Dale Rothwell Optometrist Eyes examined, glasses fitted, lenses duplicated and frames repaired. With Wm. Hanscom THE Jeweler, Pendleton. When you want particular and satisfactory watch and Jewelry repairing or first-class engraving, take it to Hansccm's Where all work is guaranteed. DYEING sfflS&STAlNj1 REMJVFn that a puppy should be too affection ate In the street in muddy weather, but both ladles and gentlemen have good redress when we get their gar ments to clean. They are made to look like new r ;aln. .And no matter how delicate C i fabric may be, we never Injure it in the cleaning operation. Pendleton Dye Works Phone Main let. S0H E. Alta. Cigars de Luxe We have 'em both. Ail sizes, all gradei, all prices. Question of selection Is up to you. WE DO THE REST. W. J. Connor & Co. Successor to I1ARRY O'DELL. Cigars, Candles and Pool Rom. 649 Main Street. Phone M. 4. Green Stamp Organizer Here. W. A. ' Mullen, organizer for the fiperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp company, the largest company of is kind In the world, with Its system es tablished in more than 600 cities, Is In the city today and has Just finish ed InntPlllng the system here, with headquarter at Alexander's Depart ment Store. A number of stores have "Clark's Grocery' Bcpnning February 24, 1912, tho S. & II. Green Stamps arc given, out on all cash purchases, at this store. It means a return to you of 5 per cent of the purchase price. Tho detail of this work will bo explained to all of our customers. To those that are not our customers, wo extend a cordial invitation to come to our place, and try tho deal out for ono month. We know that you will be pleased with the result A Book with 10 Stamps FREE to each customer. CLARK'S Phone Main 174 GROCERY 612 Main Street Pi