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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1904)
3 ' LA GRANDE MOANING OBSERVER ' ' " ' ' . "' ' ' -' ' ' V .. - ';' ..... y.' i A .-V i, , ...Us:I'3,-I VOLUME III. , . ; . r : ; - i: U ORAND JANUARY 26. 1904 . .. - ' . . , ' NUMBER 69 l turn i r- 1 " 1 I ,.v - ! r ...... . A; Only 15 days more Only 15 day more Annual Clearance Sale Only 15 days of our great annual clearance sale gone by, during which time we simply surprised oar selves at the wonderful patronage the prices we are selling merchandise brought to us, and there are still 15 DAYS LEFT i For the public to secure the greatest values ever of fered in Union County at prices so extremely lo that competition is not a comparison WE DON'T THINK YOU'RE FOOLISH If you trad elsewhere. We simply thfnk you are misguided or have not investigated. Take an hour off and let us show you some of the advantages to be gained by trading her. Within the last twelve month cotton has advauced 65 per cent. You'd hard ly think it to see our present prices on cotton goods. mm fiiiii wm wm During 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 moved likewise. If the people who have not seen the bar gains offered by us during this sale were to ctll at the store and compare prices and values, they would go oway 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 these SLASHING PRICES J Every article in our store reduced except thread, Patterns, Douglass and Reed shoes. See our $5 MensSuitS $5 $1 Shoe counter $1 $1 Shoe Counter $1 The Chicago Store, MURPHY BROS., Prop. 1209 Adams Ave. La Grande, Oregon LEADERS IN LOW PRICES. . 4MMM)MS0t J. M, BERRY Annual Inventory Sale lasts until TANUARY25th. Heavy cuts on goods you want more and also on goods you will need after awhile. We have quoted no prices yet but tin 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 prioe. All Silk Waists at COST. Ladies' Jackets One-half price. All Dress Goods at one-fonrth off. All ladies' Furn ishings reduced in prices. BOYS WEAR $10 Suits for $7.60; $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' end Children's SHOES. We defy competition on this sale. Prices talk and everything mxrked in plain figures. Avail your self of the many bargains offered. ' J. M. BERRY ' ; ; MEM0RY0F BURNS The Scottish People of the Valley Meet to do Honor to Robert Bums Scotland's Most Hon ored Poet. There was a Catherine of the elan at Elk's Hall tut evening when the members of the Barm Soeiety met to celebrate the US anniversary Of the birth of SootUndi favorite Bard. Rob ert Barns. A Urge number of Boot tiob people and people of Scottish de- oent were pretest. On behalf of the Society the members and visitors were tendered a heart Highland wel come bj the Soceity'e president, Mr Tamer Oliver after Divlre bleating had been invoked by 3ev VsniVuye. 8 Ivanboe then delivered a fnemor ial addreas referring briefly but ele quenuy ana leeiinsiv 01 tboM hum bers who have departed this life sines tbe meeting ol the Society one year ago. ' - One of (be mot interesting parts of tbe program was "The Bums Charao tar" by J P Barrie, of Union. : Bis talk, bis Scottish accent and bis" or iginal poem and ready wit were thor oughiy enjoyed. The following is Ibe program as rendered : Annual meeting and Entertainment will be field at Elk's Hall at 8 p m La uranae ura January 25 1904. Call to order - Invocation Kev W L Van Nuya President's Address Turner Oliver Music ... Oruhmtra Memorial Address R8 Ivanboe Song and chorus, 'Nas lock Aboot the Hoose" MrsFbrrest, Mlse Tait tad" Misses Noble. . Address The Burns Character J P Barrie Piano solo, Annie Laurie, Miss Mc Kennon. Recitation Mies Naomi Williamson Song Duncan Grav bv Prot Tall Coronet solo Scottish airs Mies Talt Ladies Quartette, 'Annie Laurie' Mrs Forest. M'sa Tait anil MImm NnhlV Piano Duet Cameronian Quadrilles with urcnesira accoinp, Unas Cochran and Robt Eakln Business meeting (Enrollment of new members, payment oi dues and elec tion of officers) Banquet. Toasts bv Dr McNauuhtnn. John Tosback, T A Rineheart wui Mulr. Song snd Chorus, The Star Spangled Banner Hiss Aldr::h (Audience to ioin in chorus) Orohestra "A Nichht Wi' Barns" Auld Lang fjvne" Everybody In rendering the foregoing: n ma ram Prof R P Tait was Musical Director ana Mrs Lvle. Pianist. Tbe following are tbe officers elect ed for the ensuing year: President Turner Oliver; Vice President tor Union Judge Robert Eakln. tor Isltod City Duncan Mo Lean; for Alicel Ptter McDonald: Bummeiville John Mckte Wallowa Hector McDonald. North ?Owder Wm Shaw : Elgin Frank Mil ler: La Grande F S Ivanboe; Seoretary and Treasurer Wm Grant: Committee on mueio Prof Tait and Mis Lyte Pian ist. Tbe Ladies Executive committee is composed ol the followine : Mrs Grant, Mrs Tait and Mrs Galittaon. A lare ou n'jir oi new nam it ware added to tbe register. A thoroughly good time was bad by those 'present, and the meeting was the most success lul yot held by tbe society. Blot The Color Line Indiansrolis. Jan. 25 At todav't session of the United Mineworkers, a memorial addressed to the American Federation of Labor requesting it to ifquire legislation in all trades unions raising the "oolor line" was adopted. A resolution was adopted releasing locals from obligations to meet the taxation imposed bv local central rade unions for support of ceneral business agents which oan no; ect for tbe miners. I. J. LILLIS Phone 1223 PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER.. DarKr Cklit Washington Jan lo-Fiftean Dem oeratle Senators will rote to ratify tbe Panama treat-." is the remark that a Democrat Senator m4de to a Kspub- Hoan colleague alter - fit eenferance yesterday. This meant mrfoh mnra than tbe ratffleatioo ot treaty. , It fl a Snlil In the iMinnrattn naria oo one of the great Issues raised tor oampalgn purpose,- j- , No Editors There There is aJltlla nauar nnhllhH n tbe State Peniteniarv - Of llitillltaVAtA called ;-The Minnesota Peniientary Prison Mirror" wbieb propounds ths following question . "Wby is it Iron the hrst nnn. tion of onr paper poUl the present lima we bars nersr hadao editor to sojourn in our midttf -? Other professions have bsm wall represented. Of preachers we have bad enoUSh to famish Suhaiatnnna t,. an Afrloan ehief tor a year, doctor in sufficient number to depopulate a state nd enough lawverj to aatahilah good aiied.ooloDy in Hades. Bat ed itors not one. .Ej.' " IN GREAT PERIL Hundreds Marooned By the High Waters-Bitter Cold Weather Adds to the Horror of the Flood Situation. Wheeling W V Jan 26-The Bood conditions today are woi Be. The oold wave has froaen the water but not sufficient to support weight. Five hundred familes are marooned la the upper stories ol residences. At Kenwood it is estimated that 6.000 are living in upper stories or on hill sides. There is intense suffering. ' OVERDO ENTOMBED; LITTLE IF ANY HOPE Two Hundred Feet Below-Explosion Was Terrific --Shafts Filled With Debris-Many Men of Families are Entombed. COREAN SOLDIERS ROB HOUSE Seoul Jau SO Ooreao soldiers" and police at PyentyanK. dieeuiaed aa rnb. bers have loo'l all the wealthy native houses. Foreigners are growing very uneasy over the condition of affair.. The natives seemingly are apathetic. lue weaatber u eztemely cold THREE COLD WEATHER VICTIMS Chicago, Jan. 25 A oold wave that' is piedioted will break all a. oords and will last 21 hours. Th mercury reached 18 below zero at 6 o'olook tills morninir. and 20 balnw is expeoted for louight. Three persons were frossn to death last night. The wind adds to the disoonifort. . . REFORM WAVE CRUSHED UNDER AN ELEPHANT London, Jan. 25 George Lookbart the well-known elephant trainer and cifous proprietor, was accidentally crushed to death todsy by an ele phant while be was attending to the unloading of circus animals at the Hoe-street railroad station at Wal-t'lamstuwn. Typhoid in Washington Olyn'pia Wash Jan 20 The report ol the state board ol health, whioh was oomploted today, estimated tbe i. u ii bor ol oases of typhoid fever in stale during the last nino months ol lUU3at H00. Tha board reooom mauds Unit the legislature tpsoiai appropriation for the purpose (I stamping out this disease.: 1 Pitlshiire. Jan. 26 At 8:30 this morning an explosion took.plaea.la,a JretU air, shall at the Narwick Company's eoal mine near .Cheswiclc . One bandied and twenty-Eve n-en are imprisoned in the mine. Tbe superintendent - at 10 sent to Cheswick and rinrioirdala for phyaioiana, although none ot tbe men op to that bonr had been rescued. WORKING FOR RELIEF Several bundred men are working at 11 o'clcok trying to make an en trance into the mine where the en tombed met- are. It is believed many were killed outright or suffocated. Eacane is enmoletelv shut off. aa the explosion was sogreal it filled the shaft with debris,. LATEST REPORTS The lay st reports from the com- ninv's roll shows that between lSu a id lbO men are entombed, inolnding the fire and pit bosses. ' Three imursd tionle men wen tak en to tbe hospital at Allegheny where one died. Soon all the men possible will be at work struggling at the shafts to reacn the entombed, wbo will be smootbered unless they speedily get I Another Hanging . U W James. suuerintAmlent t ; state neoitentlalv- han r..Ti.r-tiS:r.-' muuis. HLUrYS OUT OF SHAFT j '0na to witness the first hanging tin Pending the arrival of the mine in-1 " ,ne ne" law, of H D Egbert who spwtor all further efforts to enter thej k"lel Joun GSxton in Harney ooun mine baa been abandoned. About! 'y0c'i-ber 1 1003. the mouth of tbe pit the air is heavy j with deadly fire damp in suoh vol umes as to cause the greatest fears tor ! tbe safety ol the entombed minora I It is believed none are alive. Renaat-! i ed efforts made to oommunicate witb them have been futile. Attempt -sere made late this after noon to force air tbiough. the ohafts, thus relieving tbem of gas. The . force ol the explosion is illus trated by the. laol that a' pit mule was. blown from the bottom of a shad. out through an opening and 100 f ei into the air. Before tbe debris settled back and closed tbe shaft, oamo a huge gust ol flame and the tipple building ai Ibe top ot tbe shaft was blown into fragments. Tbe scene around the shaft is dis tressing, as nearly all of tbe entomb ed miners have large families. CRACKED A SAFE Robbers Secure But $19.00 From t ie O. R. & N. Depot Safe at Milton--No Clue to the Robbers. Milton Jan 25 The safe in the O K 4 N depot was blown open by bnrg- ais about midnight last night and 919 in oasb taken . Tbe sonlb side of the depot building was shattered by the lore ol the explosion and all the windows in the building were blown out. The door on the south aided the building wts blown across tbe tracks, about 50 feet ditlanoe, and the floor was badly damaged bv tbe shock ol tbe dynamite. DIED. Sbaw In Union, Sunday Jan. 25, 1904. Mr. Tbomas Sbsw, of pneumonia. A Model Farm Mr. Henry Hall, ex State Senator from Oraot county and bis wife de parted for theii home near Prairie City, Orant eouoty, this morniug. Tbey are returning fiom about e months visit in Portland, durinc which they took in Ben Hurr, tbe Livestock, Wool Growers and Fruil Growers Conventions; heard Bocklexs Simpson and others of the brainiest men of the nation, and stopped oil here to visit. Mr. Hall's bom is iu one of the most beautiful valleys in Oregon. The farm consists of hundreds of scrrs of well tilled farm land, embossed with a large orohard, apschus barns, shed., and corrals to shelter and handle his large beards of cattle, horse., poultry and sheep. Though their homo is many miles from a railroad, it is not a tvnin.l str.ok mau's ueglaoli d shsck, but a comfortable chrutiao home in Khk-h his children educated in the best s:bool in tbe United States, are gled to call borne. His boys made and put io operation an elrctrio plant that lights tbe borne from cellar to attic with electricity, Managers Meeting There wl 1 be a meeting ol the managers ol tbe La Grande commer cial olub, this evening at the club Leap Year Ball Tho leap year bal' eivin l.at ng hy the members of Co L O V n was a most snoceesfnl affair. The attendauoe was a,ml ..'.! - most enjoyable time wa. exnenenoed by all pieseut. In Pendl ton That May ' Bring Out Damaging Evidence Regarding1 the "400," and Again It May Not Peudloto- Ore; Jan 26 Tbjre are indications that the morel reform move started by Cblet of Polios T!.,. ' noy against the "dope" . joints when he arrested two young lads and Young - wiunuiau, wm go iar oeyond the Individual Chinamen. hn ... conducting the dens, It is understood one ol the youog lads told tbe 'ohief that when tbe tirnt, comes be will give -up the names ol every opium nter in Pendleton. He delcaree tout there are fully 100 persons who "hitj the pipe," and says that some ol the dream ere" belong to the fair sex ol tbe "00' circle, . -' ; . . The arrests have created ' a .ni1 lion here and further sensations are fxper-.ted to follow if tbe oaee is car ried on. It is understood that Lee is to be prosecuted in the oirouit court, notwithstanding the Hue be will re oleve undir the oity ordinance, if oonl vioted. . . . ' : . Rosevelt Club Granite Jan 26-iTh R.,ni..- of Granite on Friday will organize a noaevell Olub. This i. ih-n.. oiub to be organised ihfEastern O er 00. ... Y. .,. .. ... " J B Foley has decided ir, m..i.n.. enlarge the Foley House in the spring .uunwing me irontage on Adame Ave, 60ft snd making- t ie nnti..hiM ing three stories in height. This was the intention last year but for soveral reasons the projtot war deferred. DO NOT FORGET The Grand Bail which ill l.. i by the Ladies of thej.Msccahoes Feb. 12 It will be delightful affair. Evory guest will receive a li.n.t souvenir. IS Economical Buyers Are delighted with the vulues wool blunkcts. we are offering in flue en Mi H, H t W eiepllCl.18 ih9' sre ttl1 Pendleton Woo mmKI t nH". T'lt8e bIan.ketS are WPl1 kuown f0' eir ie in , h.T ''"i'',8"?"1"' workmanship and finish. They ere , ,,, ,, , ; a,, 0regQn Wool y els itieguiirutiued absolutely fast colors. J h W1lli' nbl"."-0t8. a-re made from specially selected wool a,l will rt la... their creamy white appearance. All . Blankets Are Reduced 25 per cent. Bear in mind thai our tonth somi-aunual only a few nays longer. Sale will Come now. It means saving. St : T a "-. i- 7 parlors. Tbos Walsh, President. Shopi P. SL between 3d and 41 , . ' jjf- "