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EIGHT PAGES PAGE EIGHT DATLT EAST OKEOOyiAy. PENDLETON", OKEQ0?T, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914. Newsy Notes of Pendleton RESOLVED That you will hunt no further for good gro ceries if you come to us. OurVare pure and fresh andjhe prices are right. We keep pure wholesome groceries and sound fruits and vegetables and sell them at reasonable prices. Don't hunt around, come straight to us. PHONE 96 STANDARD GROCERY GO. Where all are Pleased Court and Joan son St$. Return from Salem, niairlct Attorney Frederick Stel wer and John P. McManua returned vMtorJuv from Salem where they had been on a political mission. (Minty Court Mooting. . The county court thl morning commenced IU regular monthly sea alon. Moat of the day hu been spent with the auditing of bills. 'A full court 18 present Sunday School Worker llere. John Crymea of La Grande, arrived In Pendleton Monday and will spend two months In Umatilla and Morrow counties on financial business In con nection with the American Sunday School Union. More "Drummers'' Locate Here. IL A. Elwell and E. A. Holden are two more traveling men who have de elded to make Pendleton their head quarters Both came In this morning from Pasco and declared that Pen dleton would hereafter be home to them. Ing of jail sentences, eight In forfeit ed ball, nine were dismissed, four continued and sentence suspended on five. The expenses of the office for the month were but 198.95. Five burial permits were Issued and six sidewalk permits for a total of 600 lineal feet of concrete walk. Thirteen building permits were Issued and the total cost of the buildings amounts to 96550. Small fire. A roof fire at the Swinburne house In Lee street near the Lee street bridge at 3 o'clock this afternoon, was easily extinguished by the department "If 'we seinfit's pure" watch our windows for Saturday Specials a newHineJof candy fresh tonight FATHER SAYS ALLEGATIONS OF DAUGHTER ARE UNTRUE Father Dead in Virginia. L. Dunlap. well known local con tractor, yesterday received a message telling of the death or his ratner in the eastern part of Virginia. The elder Dunlap was 80 years old and had been IU for the past seven or eight months. Street Gang at Work. Another street gang of city prison ers has been put to work under the direction of Street Commissioner Heathman and this may have some thing to do with the falling off In the number of offenders during the past few days. MARK STI RTFVANT MAKES OB JECTIONS TO ELBERT CAS TEEL AS GUARDIAN. Toric Lenses are the best We grind and fit them to give the wearer comfort and Fati.-faction. ALL WORK GUARAN TEED. Dale Uothwell Refracting and Manufactur ing Optician. with Hncota, THE Jeweler P. O. Iildfr. Pendleton, Ore. ITione 329 J. Replying to the charges of hU daughter. Fay Sturtevant, as contain ed In her answer to his retltion to have her declared an Incompetent, Mark Sturtevant of Pilot Rock to day entered emphatic denials to most of her allegations and set up a strong objection to the appointing of Elbert Casteel as her guardian as requested by her. He alleges that Casteel Is not competent or qualified to act as her guardian and asserts that the reason his daughter wants him named is because she thinks she could es cape from his custody and run away with the man she wants to marry or else get his consent to the marriage. In her answer. Miss Sturtevant de nied her father's charges that she Is contemplating matrimony, but. In his reply, the father repeats them. He states that the man she wants to mar ry Is now trying to borrow money so they can go into Washington and be married. Miss Sturtevant had also alleged that her father had squandered mon ey left her by her mother In riotous and reckless living and had never ac counted to her for it. This he denies declaring he had spent all of the money on her and had so made his accounting. He also denies that he is an habitual drunkard or that he has been Incapacitated by use of li quor for directing his own affairs or assuming the guardianship of the per son and estate of his daughter. The bearing of the ewe Is set for tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Pe terson and Ballard are representing the young lady anl Judge Fee Is at torney for Sturtevant. Sampson Case Still On. The Indian divorce case in which Leo Sampson, the well known Inter preter, seeks separation from his wife Cella Sampson, is still on trial today Jin the circuit court. Many Indians are being called as witnesses and I quite a number of others are specta ' tors at the trial. Mrs. Ben Rlvra Dead. Mrs. Ben Rives died at 9:80 last evening at her home 1000 East Webb street following a long Illness of Bright'a disease. The physicians had given her up for several days, she! was S6 years old and Is survived by a husband and two children, a girl of 9 and a boy of 4. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Baptist church. The body Is now at the Baker parlors. CIVIC COFFEE CLUB FINDS EMPLOYMENT FOR SIX MEN NEW INSTITUTION FORMALLY OPENER MANY APPLICA TIONS ItECEIVFil). 'T and I" Clnb lanx? Next Friday. The "l" and I" club will give the next of their series of Invitational dances on Friday evening. December 4th. in Moose hall. Adv. Do you know that the Peoples Warehouse has a great showing of women's hand bags at 11 23 to 17.30? After Clieck Artist. Constable I. W. Faulk, veteran La Grande officer, came over today to take Into custody Frank Murray alias i fnnninenam. waniea in Grande to answer to a charge of ob taining money under false pretenses. The man recently worked for Hugh Bell. He was picked up by Sheriff Taylor. To Start WrestMnS Class. Lawrence G. Duff, chauffeur for the Hotel Pendleton, announced to day that he would soon open a wrest ling class In Pendleton, probably In the gymnasium back of the commer cial club rooms. Duff for five years Tomroented Multnomah club of Port land on the mat. twice winning the p. N. A. championship, in 1910 at uj pounds and In 1911 at 145. Little Boy Dies. Succumbing to an attack of ap pendicitis which an operation failed to relieve, Warren McKlnney. twelve year old son of Dr. W. H. McKinney of Helix, died at 12 30 today at St Anthony's hospital. Little hope ha been entertained for him for the past 24 hours. He had been brought to the local hospital about two weeks a(fo suffering from the disease but an operation had been delayed In the hope of improvement in the condition f the patient The appendix had ruptured and an abscess formed, mak Ing the case a very dangerous one. License Fees Hi; I.ast Month. A total of 113,479.00 wa3 collected by Recorder Fitz Gerald last month in license fees. Most of this came from saloon licenses and it has re lieved the city of financial embar rassment for the time being The records also show that Recorder Fits Gerald collected a total of 115.705.87 In fines, street Improvement install ments and from other sources other than licenses. There were 70 cases in police court of which 14 resulted in the payment of fines, 30 in the serv- Trylng Out for Team. Last night 40 men lined up In the local high school gymnasium to en ter the tryouts for the basketball sea son. All are well pleased with Coach Livingston's system of training In basketball, and great things are ex pected from the students In this line of activity, Coach Livingston Is one of the best basketball coaches In Or egon, and this year the high school Is turning out men who are proving stars In the game. Charles Russel. Roscoe Vaughn, Fred Peters, Emll Selbert, and Ned Fowler are some of the men who are showing unusual talent this season. The Pistlii U WHERE THE TAVORITC PLAYERS PLAY THE HOME Or GOOD PICTURES TODAY George Kleine Presents TODAY "THE KIAKEE) TUTH" Featuring Lyda Borelli A five part adaption of the Ieneh novel by Henry Batallll. Admission 15c pictures start 7. 8:20. 9:35 Children 5c Through Mistake in Booking. "Life's Shop Window" will not be shown at this Theatre until next week. Coming Thursday and Friday we offer "Rosemary", That's for Remembrance, a Selig two-part Drama Featuring Edith Johnson. Mary Pickford in Biograph Drama. Arthur Johnson and Lottie Brisco in Lubin Drama. 10c ADMISSION 10c lire at Coffee Club. Fire from spontaneous combustion almost thwarted the plans of the promoters of the Civic Coffee Club this morning. An oiled fag had been left lying on the window casing in the rear of the upstairs room of the Hendricks building, corner Main and Webb, and the combustn.ui had caus ed a blaze which ignited the casing, burned through it and was almost In-, to the attic when discovered. Jack Lodlng and Grover Cunningham made the discovery at 6:15 and roused the firemen who responded quickly and. with a Pyrene extinguisher, put the blaze out with a minimum of dam age. In another half hour. Chief Bel linger declares the fire would have gained such headway in the attic that a serious loss could not have been averted. From the time of Its opening for business yesterday morning until o'clock today the Civic Coffee Club had received applications for work from IS different people and of the twelve, six pere provided with work in some form, generally at odd Jobs Nine of the applicants enrolled at the club yesterday and three new seek ers of employtVPt appeared today, According to Fcrcy Hllbert, In chargo of the Civic Coffee Club the applicants for work are local people with one or two exceptions.' One of the men applying for work has a large family in which there are several children whom he must support Therefore his cane Is unusualy de serving. Local people or farmers In need of workers oY any sort are asked to call the Civic Coffee Club, phone 790, and secure men, or women through that organisation. Every effort will be made by Mr. Hllbert to take care of any requests coming In and as hi will be In touch with those ' unem ployed he will be In position to pro vide help on very short notice. The coffee and sandwich lunches have not yet been served at the newly opened Institution, ft was the Inten tion to start the lunch feature todaj but the matter was postponed until tomorrow noon. From this day on those desiring a coffee and sandwich lunch at cost prices can secure the same. The club Is located over the Worklngmen's Clothing Store at the corner of Main and Webb streets and there Is a well-alred, well lighted room where unemployed men . may make their headquarters if they wish to do so. Bowling League Formed. Last evening In the parlors ot "The Bungalow" a city bowling league was organized with F. J. Mc Monles as president. Tom Brewster as secretary and Pat IcDevitt, F. J McMonles, Fred Book and Nick No el the captains of the teams to con test. After the organization and election of officers, a bowling match was held as a tryout for the selec tion of a team to go to La Grande. The following scores were made: Fleming. 538; Brewster, ESS: Kuse, 399; Nolf, 502; McMonles. BOO; But ler. 4 99; Finch. 396; Hoover, 543; Hanavan, 43S and Noel, 525. The five thus qualifying for the team are Brewster, Fleming, Hoover, Noel and Nolf. Another match will be held Sunday afternoon and the scores will aLso count In the selection of a team to compete In La Grande. INDIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO HUNTING IN CLOSED SEASON SEVERAL PEER HIDES FOUND IN POSSESSION TO UK SEN TENCED DEC. 12. Little Hawk, a wellknown Indian, was arraigned yesterday before Jus tice of the Peac McReynolds at Pilot Rock and pleaded guilty to hunting deer In closed season. Sentence will be passed Dec. 12. The defendant Is one of the older of the Indian hunters on the I'matllla reservation. He was arrested Monday while hunting near the head of Mea dow creek, southeast of Pilot Rock, by Game Warden Averlll. His wife and Mary Joshua, a young Indian woman, were with him at the time and were, also brought In but no charges were filed against them. Though none of the coupons were detached from Little Hawk's license the hunting party had two pack horse loads of "Jerked" venison in their possession and several hides. They claimed they had purchased the hides fm white settlers In the mountain More New Arrivals in Women's Ready-to-Wear By Today's Express" We don't linvo special sales yet wo have to order 'more, now goods daily because our every day prices are always lower. '1 hat's what makes this the Big Busy Store. ONE OF THE NEW NUMBERS IN . COATS is of fancy striped velvet with heavy Bntin lining and u regular $27.50 value, at '. ?18.50 SILK PLUSH COATS, heavy satin lin ing, that everywhere are sold at $2.1.00. Our price $10.50 CRUSHED PLUSH COATS, maJa with full hack, large sleeves and fur collar. Our prico $14.75 HEAVY CLOTH COATS in fancy mixed, plaids and novelty weaves, priced at $9.00, $12.50, $11.75. TAILORED SUITS, every ono an excep tional value at doublo the price. Como in long coats, cutaways nnd short jackets, it $9.00, $12.50, $14.75. ANOTHER LOT OF SHIRT WAISTS. You no dotibt arc familiar with the way ' we price them, 08, $1.98, $2.08, and $3.98. YOU CAN DO BETTER AT WE LEAD . OTHERS FOLLOW ft, , -, I y,T r"---- Do you know that the Peoples Warehouse has everything that la new and good In neckwear for men and women at 25c to $2.50? I We I&re Re&dy s . - for Christmas Shoppers with the greatest and grandest line we have ever displayed Here you will find Presents of Sense, worth and Lasting Quality 3 8 8 S 18 MAN M4Y 60 FREE IF HIS SENTENCE ISN'T COMMUTED GOVERNOR WILLING TO ACT IP DISTINCT ATTOKEV RECOM MENDS IT. SALEM, Ore. Dec. 2. Governor West announced he would commute the sentence of Lloyd II. Wllklns, con victed of the murder of Lou Winters, Portland, from death to life Impris onment if District Attorney Evans of Multnomah county would recommend It Evans, according to the governor, takes the view that If sentence of Wllklns Is not commuted to life Im prisonment before the governor pro claims the constitutional amendment abolishing the death penalty has car ried, he will go free, because of the fact the amendment failed to specify what the penalty for first degree murder shall be. The governor takes Issue with Evans, but Is wiling to com mute the sentence If Evans will recommend it. POLICEMAN STOPS MAN LIGHTING llO.Mll USE NEW YOrtK, Dec. 2 Po- I Iceman Coleman detected a man In the act of liKhting a fuse to a bomb In the hallway nt a building In .Forsythe .street. Coleman shouted and the man ran. hurling the bomb Into a vacant lot. The polcemun fired six shots but missed and the man escaped. Coleman then extinguished the fuse. The bomb contained enough dyna- mite to wreck several build- Ings. 28 8 S IS 25 s 8 S 8 DIAMONDS, CUT GLASS WATCHES KINGS CHAINS SILVEUWAHK CLOCKS UMHUELLAS CIIAKMS I'INS Toilet Article, Souvenir, Etc. Silixt vour presents Now and have them lai-J away for you. Our Engraving Done By An Expert A. L. SCHAEFER Jeweler art J Silversmith. 720 Main Street. Telephone 32SJ STUDENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL ENJOY CAFETERIA LUNCH I NEW feYSTKM NOW IN OPERA- TIO.V AND 3IEETS WITH IN. STANT APPROVAL. Nearly 60 students of the high school enjoyed the first menu served by the high school cafeteria at noon today. The menu consisted of cream tomato soup, hot chcolate, apple pie, and bread and butter and was served In true cafeteria style. Each custom, er secured a platter and then walked along the counter and helped him self to as much as he desired, It Is predicted that the cafeteria1 will be a great success, and every one Is delighted with the Idea. Not only will It be a novelty but It will be a great help to those who come from a distance, and to those who are oblig ed to spend the noon hour at the school for work. Principal Hampton stated today that the cafeteria was one of the greutest things that have been Introduced into the high school and Is quite enthusiastic about It, m B To Pendleton Theatre Patrons:- After having seen the picture "Salomy Jane", I wish to rec ommend it to you as THE BEST one we have ever had, ex cepting "The Spoilers" and many of last nights audience claim that it has that beaten. The scenic effects are beautiful, the acting is of the best in cluding feats of daring that are wonderful and the story is one ' of the best Bret Harte ever produced. It is so good that I feel justified in personally recommending it to you as one of THE BEST plays ever screened in Pendleton. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Stype, Manager. Today Only 7:00,8:30, 1 0:00 Today Only Special Music. 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