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' LA GRANDE MOANING OBSERVER
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VOLUME III. , . ; . r : ; - i: U ORAND JANUARY 26. 1904 . .. - ' . . , ' NUMBER 69
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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J. M. BERRY
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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.:
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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
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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.
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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.
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Tbos Walsh, President.
Shopi P. SL between 3d and 41
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