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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1904)
it "Of p. GRANDE MORNING OBSERVER, VOLUME III. LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY CORNING, JANUARY 22." 1904 NUMBER 66 LA 0"ly IS days more Only !5 days more Annual Clearance Sale Only 15 days of our great annual . clearance sale gone by, during which time we simply surprised our selves at the wonderful patronage the ;: prices we are selling merchandise brought to us, and there are still 15 DAYS. LEFT-' For the public to secure the greatest values ever of fered in Union County at prices ao extremely lo that competition is not a comparison WE DON'T THINK YOU'RE FOOLISH If you track elsewhere. We simply think you are misguided or lme not investigated. Take an hour oil' and let us show you some of the advaptages to be gained by trading here. Within the last twelve mouth cotton hns advanced 55 pur cent. - You'd hard ly think it to see our present prices on cotton goods. f i time w ww mw Dating this sale up to date, we have sold i more mens suits than we anticipated and we can candidly state that every department in our store has tuoved likewise. If the people who have not seen the bar gains offered by us during this sale wore In call at the store and compare prices and values, they would go away with their arms full. We are positive of this from our sales during the past 15 days. Remember ' you have 15 more days to get in on those SLASHING PRICES Every article in our store reduced except thread, Patterns, Douglass and Reed shoes. See our $5 ivEeris Suits $5 $1 Shoe counter 41 $1 Shoe Counter $1 The Chicago Store, MURPHY BROS., Props. 1209 Adams Ave. La Grande, Oregon LEADERS IN LOW PRICES. J. M, BERRY Annual Inventory Sale lasts until I ANUARY 25th. Heavy cuts on goods you want more and also on goods you will ueed after awhile. We have quoted no prices yet but th bargains we have already turned out in our Men's Furnishings and Suit department, and our Ladies' Suit Depart ment speak for themselves. Men's Wear Any Suit in the house $10.00 $16.00 and $18.00 Overcoats " " $12.00 Everything in Men's Furnishings reduced. Ladies' Wear. Ladies' Tailor Suits One-half price. All Silk Waists at COST. Ladies' Jackets One-half prico. All Dress Goods at one-fonrth off. All Ladies Fum ichings reduced m prices. BOYS WEAR $10 Suits for $7.50; $8.50 Suits $7.00 $5 00 Suits at $3.00 and up. CHILDRENS WEAR Reduced oue-half, and many reduced to cost. SHOES A lively reduction on Men's, Ladies' and Children's SHOES. We defy competition on this sale. Prices talk everything ranrked in plain figures. Avail your uAof ti)e many bargains offered. PLEAS ARMSTRONG WILL HANG TODAY. Is It Yours? There la ai thii offioe subject tn oall one small dog. We disolaim any and 11 ownership.to the said animal and (be rigbiful owner may have the , tame by calling and olaiming proprle- . . .. , '" torthip. The pup is about ninteen " " , inohea long by nearly six high and All err ii c a, sj ' c? j ii a.1 nearly many wide. Hals an near All Efforts to Save mm Having railed, He Now ., determine what would be . . . , , , i r i . r elloJ in the fajbiou boats a eeal Is Anxious for the Law to Take its Course, mown trimmed with white on ,vb i I aide next to the ground. From tho J TP I I "TI r A lt? I TI " ne lesiea ine KODe Ana examined ine.o,",lon " ieotl ' 18 Scaffold. Baker City Jan 22 8pecial to the Ob server Aemstrong will bang this morn ing at 7 ;30 sharp. There will be no ad. dltional delay. Everything has been done which his friends could think of or his attorney could devise. He is resign ed to his fat and says he la anxious for the great event to take place and there by end the suspense. Yesterday afternoon he played a last tune upon bis beloved violin and after one parting caress, sent it to a friend near Haines. Later in the day he re quested the sheriff to allow him to in speot the scaffold. The Sheriff took him out and he looked the structure over carefully and pronounced it to his satis faction. He also examined and tested the rope expressed his confidence In its ability to stand the strain. cheerful and eats and Bleeps apparently as well as ever. He has given up all hope of a reprieve and saya he la ready for the law to take Its course. Hie only regret Is the fact that the world will be a great loser by hie leaving it as be ia young and that now he has seen the error of his ways and has aeoep ed Obristainity be would be able to do a great deal of good for humanity in general. All arrangements tor tbe exeoutiiu have been made and In the morning by the time the busioeis world is fairly in operation, Pleasant Arm strong will have entered the g eat unknown. youngor very old, for they are few and far between. He was found last evening near the post office wonder ing aiound in an aimless manner and He seems brought t thil offioe and offered to the editor on tubtorlption.. II h is yours oall and get bim and get the proper oredit. FEARS AMERICA WILL INVADE. Ber'io, Jan. 21 The Central Euro pean Commercial League, whose pur pose is to conduct a propaganda against tb American commercial in vasion, was formally established tbis afternoon. Many influential Germans attended. Austria, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland were represented. SAFE IS THROWN FROM MOVING TRAIN . ' i. Loss Not Detected for Over an Hour. Booty to the Value of $10,000 Secured. No Clue As Yet. Likes Oregon Postmaster J. O . Ardrey received a letter from epeoial agent of the Gen eral Land Offioe, Thos. MoNutt, who made many fiiends during bin stay in this city, staling that be is now loca ted at Gleuwood Springe, Col. but does not like his own statu as well as Oregon and that sometime he may return. He says Oregon oortainly baa a great future. He wished to be r . embered by all ol his trend , CHASLADD TELLS How a Man's Misde ds Follow Him Through Life. Wherever He Goes The Brand Of Cain is Upon Him, When Charles Lcdd, accused of robbing tho Owl saloon, was dismiss ed from ciiBtody of tie officers in Re corder Filloon's court. - yesterday moining, he gave vent to expressions that might well lie serl usly cousidei ed by joung men who are tempted to start on the downward path of law drinking, says the Times-Mountaineer In thanking the oourt for its kind trostment, Ladd stated that he did not hold malice 'against anyone for snspeoting bim of tho crime or caus ing his arrest. "I am a suspicious character." he said "1 have served a term in the penitentiary, and a man wio has once boeu a oonviot ever afterward is "viewed with suspicion. He is looked upon as a criminal, and whether be goes, if a crime is ocn mitted, he in the first to be suspected. An ex-oonviot is ever a branded man." Whatever Ltdd's life ainee be was dhohaired from the Oregon peniteo tiary, baa been exemplary or not, hi atement that an "ex-oonviot was always Viewed with suspicion," is true and came from aolual experience It should serve as a warning to all young men who are tempting to vio 'ate the law, fur once convicted of crime a man is ever afterward looked upon as a criminal.. .'The '"brand of Cain" is upon bim, ' Annual Wail San Francisco Jan 21 -The Southern Pacific Sunset Limited, west bound, was boarded by masked men a few miles from Paso Robles early this mo'ning and the safe was thrown oil'. The dis covery was not made until an hour later boarded moving train While the train was moving slowly up grade into the tunnel, the robbers board ed It and battered down the large doors to the first express ca. in wluch there are no messengers. The door as lock ed at Ban Louis Obispo, after several thousand dollars in mo ey and valu ables had been placed in the site. When the tunnel was entered they immediately began their work of break' ing in the door, using long iron rods and hatchete, The noise was not heard byany trainmen.. They must have work ed at the door for 15 minutes at least. to noon. DELAY IN DISCOVEREY A pcculair thing about the robbery is the f ct that it was not di-cove ed utiti) the train left Paso Robles station, and when it ruachod Miguel gave the alarm. FOUND SAFE BUT SO ROBBERS A number of deputies and railroad employes were sent at full speed to the Bcene of the rohb-iy and aftra brief search found the safe, but no trace of the robbers. OVER LOOKED BOOTY The mystery surrounding the robbery is made deeper by the failure of the banditB to blow the big safe, which Is bilievcd to have contained betwaon 920, 000 and 8,000. estimates of loss An unoflicial estimate places the amount of plunder at (80,000, but the The safe was thrown out near a little express and ruilroad officials unite io as- station called Thiles, in the Han Lucia serling the Iosb is comparitively Insig- mountains. The sheriff's deputies found nificsnt, A conservative estimate places the safe blown open earlv this morning the 1ob at about (10,000, but as the ex. and made an immediate attorn pt to trace press officials aic the only persons who the robbers. It le believed they live in know the full extent of the robbery, its the vicinity. No ane,t9 were made up magnitude may never become public, Prices tetter The local meal markets are higher than tbey have been for several months. Good steers are now wortb 4 cents and bogB are higher than tbey have be;n, and will go still higher. Joint Installition Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the I. O. 0. f. hall. There will be a joint installition of the otficeis of the G. A. R. and W. R. C. A special in vitation Is extended to the veterans of the Spanish Ame ican War and th sons of veterans. Refreshments will bi served and a good time in general is assured to all who attend. I. I. LILLIS Found Guilty San Franui co, Jan. 21 Tbe jury in the case ol Martha E. Howers, on I rial on tbe charge of murdering ber husband, Martin Bowers, brought in a verdiot tonight of murder in tbe first degree, and fixed the penalty at i uprisoDuient for life. Ik TiiomoB R'O old of III. Chairman -of the United Mine workers conven tion now in session at Indianapolis. M As regular as the senaot'S roll a round, and the aiiperlotendaut of the United Stttea mint makes bis report tbe newspapers in the milling cimpi in Oitgon set up a wail that Oregon in general and their camps in particu lar has been most shamefully treated by a rediculuus under estimate oi tbe output of gold, silver, lead and ooppor for the year. Whether the mint estimate' is under or over the actual out-put for the year no man or men but those who own the mines know or have the means of knowing, and tbey keep., the secret ol their private business cIobp, a law that would compell every mine owner and operator to report the out-put of his mine would be denounced in all tbe varied and dras tic vooabulary of the mines, but noli tb.re issuob a law and is fully enforc ed tbe real out-pat of the mines in Or. gon will be a thing of conjecture and estimate and will fall abort of tbe aiub'tiooof mining papers and boom ers thereof. The real miners aro not much disturbed by present conditions and ptefer a low estimate by the United States mint than s to see tbe' actual amount of out-put recordod on; the Assessor's books. A MARRIED HUGHES-WILLIAMSON In thlBCity' Thursday evening, at the residence of UertHiigh'es by Rev W L Van Nuys, Mr; Edvtntd HughoB and Miss Ituth William-1 son. Only a few of the intimate family and fr.emls wero prBont. i Mr HugbB li a boii of Mr ami Mrs A J Hughes, former residents of this city, now residents of Weiser. Tiie bride la the daughter of Mr and Mrs SB Wil liamson, well known pioneers, The Oh. server extends congratulation on hehulf of their many friends, . . v. Worth $7,000,000 ..? V." sr 81'rikqpiki.u. Ohio, Jan. 21. Tho os-t tate of ox-Govornor Asa S. Ilnshnell Is said to amount to nearly $ 7,000, 000. ,!.; .-','. No Trace Word reoeired liom J. W. Bnwen-, who went to Portland josieiilny In aearob ofhiawife who elopul from Elgin wilh W. Y. Hoaglin, m.d Mrr. Clifford, says he has fai ed to find any trace of the partiosin the mvtripnlii-. !...;,, J. M- BERRY PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER.., Phone 1223 "For Mothers Sake" Mitrie Heath, who will be seen In tbe new story of New England life "For Mother s Bake," is a wee bit of a mite, only weighing about one hun dred pounds. When one bears ber Bing they wonder at the pewer of her voice. In her pieaent character of Jo Pmhertoii she snows new versatility, one that surprises ber most ardent admirers, who nevor gave her credit for haviog the amount of pathos and heart and soul in hat voie of hers. The company Is a particularly strong one aod is scheduled to npp?ar Thil'i , day mgbt next. BURNS ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM Annual moling and Entertain mint will be held at Elk's Hall at 8 m La Grande Ore January 25 I no I . Call to order Invocation Rev VV L Van Nuys President's Address Turner Oliver Music Orchestra Memorial Addron I'1 S Ivuuhon Songand chorus, 'Nae luck About the HooBe" Mrs Forrest, Miss Tait and Misses Noble. A ldress The Burns Character J I' lUrrin Piano solo, Annie Laurie, Miss Mc-Kennon. Address, The Scotch Irish Judge Kuk'n riano Liuer., national oconisn uveriuro C K Cochran and Rout Eukin Jr. Recitation Miss Naomi Williamson Vocal Trio, What's a' the Ste-sr Kiiuiuer Messers Thome VanNuys anil Ralston Recitation RiuharJ Mit.'ai.n Coronet solo Baott'sh airs Miss Tall Ladies Quartette, 'Annie Liuriu' Mis Forest, M'bs Tttit anil Misses Noble, Piano Duet Cameroniitn Quad tl!"i with Orchestra accomp, Chai Cochran iiud Robt Eakln. Bus'nesi meeting (Enrollment of new members, payment of dues au l elec tion of officers) Banquet, Toasts by Di McN'aiighl'.ri, John Toihack, T A Rinel-.oart win Mnir Song and Chorni, The Star ripangled Banner1 Miss Aldrli h (Audience to join in chorus Orohoatra "A Nl hht Wi' Bums'' 'Auld Lang Srne" Everybody In rendering the foregnlnu program Prof R P Tait will be Musi ol DirucUr and Mrs Lyle, Pianist, PROTECT YOURSELF 11 AGAINST COLDS ma . . Diirini; ikis clinngeablo weutlior. Lay aside your litrlil. weight worn, nurlorwearund lake advantage of our snrriice pritr-son underwear during our Clearance Sale. No'f ilii- Prioes Carefully. mm Men's Underwear. $1.50 and $1.75 all Wool viounn and natural gray made from fine corned wool $1.19 $1.2b naturrl gray all wool good weight, with fleece lined mak- Oftr ing them warm and comfortable Oy $1.00 Hhavy Rib ed wool, we alsa include our special Ifl 00 valm?k70 r in fineeoft wooi at Ov Alan Good values iu rhis ot at $1.25 1 Ladies' Underwear ALSO UNDER PRIOED. all wool ribbed la white and gray, tine finished and silk taimmed 98c ent heavy fleeced in ribbed and II it ''goods, assorsei colors at 43c WATCH OUR PRICER ma iLADJ llwoffiwi'AgT) H aV I" ;r3Ls '-j ' y .. . ' f Shop. P. St. between 3d and 4) IT 1 ! f ltnw'