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ELVA JAMISON
We will call for it and bring it
home whcii promised.
" W gaarntee satisfaction and only ask for a
- trial order to demonstrate to you that wo un
V daritand the laundry business. You can stop
- ur wagon at any time or phone the Laundry .
and your work will be called for at once. We :
- make a tpeeialty of family washing, and cab ;, .
de yonr washing better and cheaper than
you. A trial order aolioited.
Union Steam Laundry
742 FIR STREET.
PHONB 1981.
ii-'.f fit
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Thousands Arriving Daily.
. We have refferenee to the number of rolls of wall pa
per which we are receiving. We have five of the bent
paper hangers in the state constantly employed, and
therefore our paper stock does not last long. A large
' shipment is expected to arrive this week and we would
suggest that you call early and make our selections
-while our assortment is complete.
' ' If you want something really artistic, call on us aud
allow us to demonstrate that we can please you. We
stand ready to meet all competition and will not benn
der sold by anyone. Estimates cheerfully furnished.
Stackland & McLachlen
PAINTS 0I12S ANDH.GLASS 2
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My Lady's Jewels
Cartainlr odd to her attractiveness
(The poet who wro'e that "Beauty un
adorned Is adorned the moat" orobablv
had no dollara. He certainly shown)!
little sense. Ana it Die may love nan
seen my display oi
Dainty Broaches
She would not have believed him
'or a w, man naturally loves to adorn
leraelf. No one can blame her tided
bey visit my store. Suoh beautiful
thing at to moderate a coat were nevet
aeen Deiore. mere are ininga tor mei
too. Just come in and see now mucl
mora I could have laid about them.
J. H. l eare, the Jeweler
City Property For Sale
; Finely Located," 'Well Improved 5-Room House For.
Sale. Also Other City Property; At " l
GRANT & HERROiN'S
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ALWAYS
i, ON TIME
vThcai you "order grocariM Inn (t
- " are tare to have themJJelivered on tiro;
ANOTHER THING
- i When you order groceries from us you are sure to
get the vervTbest to be had. We keep onlythe best
The next time you are at our store 2
, ask to see our speoial line of 9
BREAKFAST BACON f
& POTT eD MEATS I
CUR ALSTON I
NEBRASKA GROCERY STORE 1
Oor. Fir and Jefferson Sis.
A Two Light Electrolier
Empire style complete with etched glass
shades Sand all attachments put'up iu
year residence for $5.00
- See samplesln our window.
La Grande Light & Power Co
L? Gfande Evening Observer
OURREY BROS., Editors k Props.
Untered at the Post Office at La
Grande, Oregon, as Baoond Claaa
MaU Matter.
Publiahed daily except Sunday
One year in advance. ..... $6 50
Six months in advance. . . .3 50
Per month 65o
Single copy. .5c
TUESDAY EVENING MAY 17 '904
"
REPUBLICAN TICKET -SUte
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Supreme Judge, F A Moore
Food and Dairy CommiMioncr,
J W Bailey .
Pruldtntlal Elector!, Jamei A Fee,
J N Hart, G B Demick, A C Hough
Second District ;
Oonfrresaman J N Williamson.
. : Union and Wallowa.
Joint Senator Peter McDonald.
Joint Representative J H Dobbin
Eighth Judicial District.
Prosecuting Att'y. Leroy Lomax
Union County.
Representative N 0 MoLeod, "
Clerk Jaa B Qilham
Sherff J W Waldon. -r,
Assessor Ben Brown. ,'
Recorder D H Prootor
Treasurer John Frawley
Commissioner J M 8elder '
School 8u)t R A WUkerSon
Surveyor T R Berry -'
Coroner J C Henry.
La Grande Precinct.
Justice Peace J E Hough '
Constable J W Fraser r'
THE LAZY INDIAN.
the war chief of tU Malhuiire
tribes, worked ' for years as a
teamster on the road from
Umatilla landing to the Boise
coonty. He was killed in the
raid of 1879 in a figbt near the
Umatilla agency
The fact is the whites in the
early days on the Pacific coast,
depended largely upon the
Iudians to do most of the dis
agreeable work necessary to be
done in a new counby, and if
the Indians of today de not do
more work, the fault is as mu:h
if not wore, the whites than ci
he Indians. The policy oftU
General Government is to eon
fine them to the reervatious,
and the disposition of our people
is to treat the Indians wilii
contempt and injustice, ofun
assuming that because tic
Indians' belong-to a weaker racr
- The whites are entitled t.
----- vuuave wb vum V 1J p
jtion than is given to others; il
they are unwilling to work for
cast off clothes, little potatoes,
or reduced wages in cash, they
pronounce them lazy. If our
beat growers will treat the
Indians with fairness and fustlee
they will find that they will baye
no trouble in securing sumcient
and industrious help from the
Indians to thin their beets, a
job the most of white laborers
are unwilling to do because it is
a disagreeable one.
The opinion so generally
entertained that the Indians are
lazy and won't work is not well
founded upon facts. The writer
of this article has been in Oregon
more than a half century, dur
ing . which he ban been an
observer of the Indiaus in
Western, Southere and Eastern
Oregon, Washington and I'laho.
While it is true that the Indians
mode of life does not require
the same kind of labor as does
the while-man's plan of.making
a living ; and that the 'Indians
were reluctrant about changing
their accustumed plau'of making
of making a living, it cannot be
truthfully , ; said ; thtt this
reluctanbe ' came from laziness-
Any of the. old Oregonions
remember that the -jaile that
were Split to build a large pro
portion of the fences vtbat were
made in Oregon . from 1840 to
1850 were ' mauled out by
Indians, and that a very largo
part of the hard work performed
about - the early missionary
establishments was done by
Indiun men and women. The
Indian men split rails, chopped
cord wood, herded stock and
helped harvest and thrash the
the grain. They also plowed
put in the gardens and truck
patches, dug potatoes, helped
thrash the wheat, oats and peas,
oarried messages between widely
seperated settlements and
missionary stations, for yearn
before Uncle Sam's mail carriers
took their place.
The Indian women did the
most of the washing for the
whites in Oregon Citv,
Vancouver and Portlend and
fifty farmers for years, in fact
until the chinamen and steam
laundries came. The early fruit
growers in the Willamette valley
used both . Indian men and
women to cultivate their
orchards and gather the fruit,
finding them reliable, careful
and industrious.
Iu tho later sixties young!
Eagan, who later developed into'
THEY LOOK GRAND.
j The Scientific American of
May 7th has well executed cuts
showing a number of buildings
on the exposition ground at
St. Louis. These buildings look
grand, they are fashoned in the
highest style ot Architectural
Art.
What a comparison these
giand buildings will make with
the misserable shack that Oregon
has put up there. Thetempor
ary Cubin that Lewis fe Clark
built nearly a half century before
an American settler set foot on
Oregon soil, repersents nothing
that the Oregonians have done
or are doing, but thousands of
people who behold it will turn
away with the impression that it
represents Oregon of today and
will go home ; beleiving that
Oregon is the most backwoodi
region in all Amerioa.
This country is founded and
maintained by the decission of
the majorities. The local option
law to be voted npon next June
is based upon the will of the
majority in each vicinity. If
the majority . vote to have
saloons there will be saloons and
it' the majority vote to have no
saloons there should be none. It
is for the voters to say. This is
proper and this should become
a law.
. The direct primary iaw to be
voted upon at the coming elec
tion should not receive a nega
tive vote. It takes the power
away from the would be political
boss. Oregon has been tli
victim of many for the last forty
years first one then another.
Here is on opportunity for
everlasting freedom.
We do move in Oregon. Not
withstanding the fact this state
is represented at St. Louis by a
log cabin. We bave the Initia
tive and Referendum law. We
certainly will have a direct
primary law and if the masses
of the voters do not become too
careless and forget to mark their
ballots we will have a local
option Isw.
WE Ajtv: y I) Q U A.RT1 IS R B
-P,or Kodak iiiVKbdak Supplies
A complete stock of professional paper. Plates at wholesale prices. Mail orders ;
answered promptly, rY '
La Grande Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co
That whs a bard til. w the
county court gave the opposition
to the removal of the county seat,
who base their objections sle!y
npon the extra expence. They
garantee that the total expence
necessitated by a removal cover
ing a terra of 15 years shall not
exceed $350.00.
The city council of Union w&
intr duced an ordinance pro
hibiting farmers from peddling
meat in the city.
A Co! ii m il of Figuers
H'iw manv li-nea have you bothered your head over
a tong string of (inures? We have had '. considerable
tx e.'ienr-e wi h Spurns but more especially with fig
. u-es which . an lit- seen in our - . ;
Up 'c-I ,.te Wall Paper
Weieit.inly h v the very best and m.ist thorough
ly u; to data stock uf wall paper ever brought to this
'e.tyi Do nut take o:ir word for this but -call"' at our
store and allow us to demonstrate to' you.' iliat this
Htatemeul is true No old left over stoi-kjo d.ispjse of
but an extra largo stock of thiaseasous.dfgigus for you
to select from. , You will certainly be disappoinied if
you do not call, I''-"" '
Points, OiU and Glass. All kinds of building!- ma
terials. ,. .- ..
0. P. COOLIDGE
Adams Avenue.5 ' LA GRANDE, OREGON
Will Exchange
V Singer sewing machines
for good driving horses.
Machines sold upon easy
terms. Repairs for all kinns
of machines. ,
; A. H. STONE. :
Office iu Jas. B. Smi,th'
Jewelry Store. . . .
We Do Not Claim;
' That wo can pli ase all of the people all of the time, but
WE DO CLAIM
That our plant has been under the same inandgement-' for
; nearly TEN YEARS - . o '
That during this time our aim has been tr "please as
nearly all, at all times as good work and courteous treat
That we will do our best to please you if you ' will favor
us wiih your patronage , .c
That Packages left at, Anderson &. Myers or KirlleV's
o barber shops will reeive the same prompt attention . that
they would if left at the laundry. .,.,.. .
I A B C LAUNOR V.
PHONE j i85i
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, ; ,
LA GRANDE NURSE XI A J
Makes a beautiful fence or f reen for cjjjajslts .c 8
foliage is so dense as to shut - out ? all wind. it is an -
evergreen and can be cut to any shape or form, It ja
hardy and grows on any Boil. Alio fine foiEJ ).'
lots. Fruit, shade and weeping trees, shru3b, roses, -etc.
Let us know your wanU we do the kQBt-
Write box or phone 1161. A i
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QUEEN CITY -GREENHOUSE
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Farmers and Traders'
National Bank.
LAGRANDE,
- OREGON
Capital Stock fully paid . f (50,0(10
Surplus fund - . 13.UH0
Liability of Shareholders (50,000
Responsibility . . . 133,000
We do a general buuking imd excliange business.
Drafts bought aud sold on carte rn and foreign banks.
JOSEPH PALMER, President
J. W. SCIilBHIJ,
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La Grande, Oregon.
Conducted by tfletera of St. Franoi
Select boarding and day eobool for
. Yonng Ladies " y
Aoi.lcmio, Preparatory and Kined
garten courses are conducted on tba
same principles as thoao pursued in
our sohools of Pliiladelphia. . .
Muoic and paiuting recoive pp;cia "
attention . , '
Letters of inquiry directed ro
SISTER PUPERlR
jfe .'Ai'i-zr.iA :',vr '-- "!23y
TVr ' " K. -air- I
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Fonr of a kiitil i a p-tt-r good tmud
it.rarts, But ut ihu biUrhtM-'s its tlift
kiml thai rooms, not the four. We kuop
mly one kind o( meat, tho kind that's
fmali, healthy, teniler and iiucy.
' fluy your uteakj. uirl chops here, and
they'll always be'' right. Our etook is
well-led and properly cared for. Conee."
quently our meat has a delicious flavor, -
Bock & Thomas
DeWitt
' DWtttlirh mi fa fw
E to bui Wltck Hua Sllra.
Witt's Wltci Huol Sra la tlx
prlflnaj sod mtr Mmrina.
B'WItt'lli th oilr Wltea Hu.l Sa
Hut ia im u i.mnnj
Witch-Hazel
All odwra in eeaaterf Hr-bus Itat
utlans, ekoap tnd W0r1hlflMTa
uianut. OaWltt'iWIIeh HualSiln
If ipKlflc lor Pilot; Blind. BlMdlni,
llchlnt and Prolnidlm Plkn, AlioCuli,
Sumi, Bniliet Spnlna, Lac ration.
Contusion., Bella, Cubunclaa, Eaama,
Tartar, Salt Rhaun. and all ttkar Skat
.Diaeasaa,
SALVE
1 E.C.DeVUIitC0.,CMcaa
.for Side by, ail Druggists
P ' m
Casli
the World's Fair Route
Those anticipating an Eastern trip, or
a visit to the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition at St. Iuia, cannot aiftird tc
overlook the advantages oM'ered by th.-
Misiorm FAcmc Kaii.wav, wlui-h. in
account of its various routes and sau-!
ways, has o"n anpropriatelt- num
The World's fair Route."
Pasmnirera from the Northwest take
the Miasooai'pAcinc trains from Den
ver or Pueblo with the choica of either
going direct through the Kansas Citv,
via Wichita, Fort Scott and Pleasant
Hill.
Two trains dallv from Denver and
Pneblo to St. 1-nuin without rhniw. I
t-arrvng all cUsses of modern equip
ment, moulding electric, lighted ob,'r
rHiion parlor cafe dining ccrs. Ten '
daily trains Imtween Kansas and j
St Lonis.
W. I. nr 1 1 nn V I ' I U 4
General Agent. 124 Third st, PortlauJ
for detailed Information and tlluatrsted
Utaratora, ti.
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This
famous rtmrlu
H..rn,;i:"::r'
arh (kit .l,i-u ia
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sliglilly disordered
w' vToiuuiuoma
Like
Comet
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FLAVOfcrlS EXTRACT Slj
Ahcluh Pirilyflntfllf IqV'-
viu'.i. -, . Prices.
CL0S5ET&DEYERS
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Kodol
In tha sky cornea 9
Mj, tho star of health
,w to tho weak and H
eary oespon. B
entdyspepllo, 1
curing all fi
stomach I
troubles and I
; digestive i
dliorJora.
"flimnll. .h. ,
Itllumf .!!...- j
, . Hl(w(lwll Hna
does the work of the
stomach, r-laxinj the
nervous tension, while
the ftl'lflma . 1..
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and msmhranescf thai
oran ate ailow-d to
rest snd heal, h cures
""- r5"on, JIalulence,
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cleansing, purifying and
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