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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1904)
;WEATHERJ PORECAST. X Tonight showers aad thunder storms. ' Cooler tomorrow. Probably lair. S THE TRAINS GRANDE No 3 East bound 9:10 p m ontlme No 5 West ' 8:5 p m on Uma VOLUME III LA GRANDE. OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 9 19041 NUMBER 205 LA EVENING OBSERVER. JUDGE PARKER FOR PRESIDENT No Nomination Yet Made For Vice President Convention Is Now Taking A Recess. , 8t. Louin, July 9 Tbe demociatio - ooDveiUioo nominated Alton B. Par ker for president at 4 a ra tbie moro iog Tbe convention ie now taking a recefn. No nominaiiona (or vice. pieaident has yet bien made up 4 :30 thit afternoon. to Judge Alton B. Parker, tbe presi dential nominee la resident of New York and at tbe (in-sent time ia chief judge of tbe atate court of appeals whioh carries a salary of $14,200, trra of olBoe ezpired Deoembir 31, 1904. Until Itis nimb vu amrirAiiteil riminir the past lew months judge Parker was Mtle known ont-ideof bia state where ha haa bee. ti.. I, ,h fo, . nnmh, r . of years, till nomination was brought mus through tbe leadership nf David B. Hill and Augu-t B. Belmont in . face of tbe opposition ol Tammany woo finally oame to bis support and j Mr Bryan. Now that be baa received the nomination it will not be long un 1 1 the world will know moie about Mr Parker who is undotibedl' a man ol force and character and represents tbe ideas of the gold standard element of bia party. - Editor Penrose Salt Lake, July 9 Charles Penrose, editor at the Desert News, waa today appointed an apostle of the Mormon chnroh, vioa Aposlli Woodruff, de cease I. . Social Dance The next assemble danoe given by Prof, and Mr Simpson will In held in Commercial Club Hull Thursday even ing July 14th. Childreracl its at 3 p m V on the same dal. Misa Murel tiordoough left last evening to spend three weeks vaoation at tbe seaside. The light rain last night helped some. ''Every little helped" as tbe ol lady said. A FEW INTERESTING July - Clearance - Sale - Pricings. Ladies Shirt Waist Suits Greatly Reduced These cut prices effect our entire line of ladies Shirt Waist Suits in white, cream and colors. All 14.50 Suits, now $3 00 All C.50 Suits, now 4 85 ii Ten Dozen Shirt Waists LADIES AND MISSES HALF PRICE. In this lot of waists yon will find some of our beat numbers some of them slightly soiled and mussed hut beet values ever offered. Men's Straw Hats One half price. 25c and 35c hats and quite a number of 50c values. Your choice for " cents. Ladies and Children's Hose In black, plain aud lace hose, regu lar 15c values, 2 pairs for 21 cents. 25 cent Lace Hose 21 cents. Good assortment for small and large aud all of tbem special values at our regular price. Mrs. Cunningham Dead Pendleton, July 9 The funeral of tbe late Hra Cbaa Cunningham of thia city took place I hie afternoon. Death reaulting from an operation last Sat urday In the boepital bare. She tbe wife of tbe wtll known abeep man and land owner. The Filioinos The U,,,ted Bu,e h" "",n 10 the Filil 1 101 ' olvil government complete iD "' 'W- of wbiob ia is carried on by revenues collected by it, and not a dollar of which oomea from the Ireasury. Aa at present or ganized tbe officials consist of 17.345 persons of whom 17,000 are Filipinos aod 346 Americans. 32 of tbe 40 gov ernors of provincee are Filipinos; 1,708 of the jus ices of the peace are natives and not one American. Tbe maycra of all tbe cities, 982 are na tives together with all the city offi cial'. Savings Department. The Farmers aod Traders National Bank baa adopted the W. F. Burns Go's system of Home Savings Bank and Mr. A. H. Oatiln of that Co. is in the city with a force of men to in troduce the system for the Bank. The Bank establishes a savings de. partmeot wbioh is entiiely indepen dent of the commercial branch, except that it is conducted in tbe same build ing aod by the same officers and is subject t the same inspection by the U. S. Bank Examiner. Any one can open a savings account in Ibis depart ment with a deposit of f 1 ,00 or mo e and money If-It on deposit for three mouths or more will draw interest at tberaeol 4 per cent per annum. Any one opening a saving aooount witb a deposit of f 1.00 Will be loaned, free of charge one of the hltle Hume Safea to keep in their homes. Mr Celtic's men will Mil on tba people and explain tbe system aod leave tbem oaa of tbe tafea il Ibejr deeire, or oan get it at tba bank. A Success! . (Elgin-Eeoorder) -'- - Theoelebration at Jjt Qraode was a pronounoed success, according to tbe views of our people who spent the 4th in that oity., The parade wax pro nounoed aa being tbe beat ever eeen in toe county and the entire program waa of an interesting character and oarried onl withont a aingle hitch. Tbe orowd waa one of tba largest ever aaaea bled in the county jet there waa not a aingle accident or anything else to mar the pleasure of the occas ion. La Grande oitiiena exerted themselves, to give everybody a good lime and their (firts were crowned witb success. - - To The Mountains. ' The longing to go to tbj mountains the desire to get away from tbe tur moil and bnay strife of tbe city seems to be an epidemic in La. Grande. Party after party of pleasure seekeis and fishermen have been going fro-n tbe oity siuoe we people of La G ande showed tbe people of Hie world what we could do in tbe matter 61 enter tainment when we "spread ourselves," on tbe Fourth of July. , i , . , . ' ' , Almost every day one or more' par tiea bie tliemstlvts to the region of sweet scanted woods , and rippling wat n. This forenoon, four more of our citizens, who could withstand the "calling of tbe mountains" no longer, were ttricken witb the epidera io and left for the vicinity of Morgan Lake for a weeks outing. Tbe mem bers of tbe party were Messrs. Fr.d Scott, George Gipaon. George Wilson and Mr. McMilliu. Tom-Down. The timbers whioh constituted the skeleton work of tbe beautiful arbor used during the Fourth ol July cele brations, which waa a scouroe of cool comfort to those vie iting it and rest ing under its shady bowers, aod which at rioted mnoh favorable comment from tbe visitors in town, have been torn down preparatory to being re moved. Tbere were thirty thousand feet of lumbar used in constructing the aibor. All of this lumber belongs to tbe city , and will be used in necessary improvements as the occasion de nt d. Ladies Silk Coats. Reduced to less than cost of material. $22.50 Coat now $16 50 14 00 Coat now 10 90 12 00 Coat now 9 85 7 50 Cut uow 6 25 6 00 Coat now 4 85 75c Men's Underwear 60c Light Balhriggan summer under wear, the suit while they last 60c. $1.25 DRESS SHIRTS 98c A good assortment of the season's best offerings, soft or stiff fronts, some of them with collars to match. f Q Your choice for ? QC Ladies 35c to 75c Belts, 25c Here are belt values never before offered in La Grande. Choice for 26c SIXTEEN MILLION The Damages From the Kansas Floods are Estimated to Excted $16,006,000. , : Kansas, City, July 9 Not teas than $16,000,000 damage ia the figure nam ed aa the result of thia season's Hood. The Kansas nvr continues! to rise bere Ibis morning and no apftreoiabl' relief from flood conditions, iei expect ed before tomorrow. Tbe day dawn'd with another torrential ratal Seven thousand refuges are objeots of ayste matio relief work at Kansas Oity , Kan. KICKED TO DEATH Step Father of Hugh Scott Dies From Ef fects of a Kick From Horse Mr Hugh Scott of Ktrtleya tonsorla) parlors, re ieved word yesterday that his step father the Hon James Gillia,nf Stockton California has been killed by a kick from a horse. The aecident oc cured at the family home last Sunday Mr tiiliis was one of tbe pioneers -o( San Joaquin county and waa one of the moat respected and honored men in the community. ' During bis long residence there he has been able to amsBS a fortuna which placed him well in the list of California's riohest men. He was at the time of his death seventy seven years of age Mr Scott received a telegram to come at once in order to attend the funeral, but on ac count of business interests here waa un able to leave. VICTORY FOR JAPS Che Foo, July 9K trustworthy Chinaman from Fort Artl ursayB that fort feiiteen ol the main line defense was captured b? the Japanese Wed nesday. The Japanese bave now r ached tbe northeast slope of Taku Shan niountiiin, lees than three miles from Port Arthur. KUROK1 ADVANCING New Ohwang July 9 Gsneral Ku- roki is advancing all along the line. A I.iao Yeog diapatch reoor.s there is a rumcr of a naval engagement at Port Arthur iu which 21 Japanese warships participated in a Russian victory, SUNDAY SERVICES Pastors Announce The Order of Services at the Several House of Wor ship Tomorrow. CENTRAL CHURCH OP CHRIST Corner Depot St. and Washington Bible Hcbwl 10 s. m, Morning Wi rahip 11a.m. Evening Servioe 8 p. m. Preaching at Iowa icbotl house 3 30 p m gtrmoos Morula "T'ie Value of a DeBoit Aim " E ruing "Some Bleesiogs of Being a Christian.' M. E.CHUKCH J. 0. Walker Paator Sunday Hohotl 10 a.m. Preaching by paatoi . . . 11 a.m. Subject The Efficacy of Prayer. Class Meeting 12:16 Epworlb League 7 p. m. Led by Mary Reialand; aubjeit "Modern Idols and their ovei throw." Preaching by paator 8 p. ni i The public is oordially invited to all these services. ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL . ! ' . CHURCH. , , Sixth Sunday after Trinity. . : Sunday School at 10 o'cl wk a. m Mornlug prayer and sermon at 11 a.m. A ly service All invited. 'J " " 1 Tbe Grande Ronde Creamery com pany have plaoed a large awning in front of their pi toeof fulness on Elm treet, which adds greatly to tin ap pearatoe of the building, and gives a great deal more comfort to those on tbe inside during the beat of the day The refreshing aht wer, which began s, out nine o'clock last evening and I gradually increased to a go id rain, will bi a god-eend to the ranchers wbo bave had their grain injured lit the Iroat, and will at least h?!i? make good hay out of the ba My damaged wheat.. , ...' Mr. EliTioe from Summrrv lie was in tbe town yes teed ay for tba purpose of carrying some freight to Butnnvr- ville. Wc arc Going to Celebrate Watch this Space After The The Chicago I r ' : : I NEWLIN DRUG CO. FOR NEW COUNTY Formation Of A New County Suggested as Means of Settling Long Standing Feud. The question aa to the advisability of organizing a new county out of tbe territory immediately tributary to the oity of Union, ia being serlou-ly con sidered by some of our leading tax payer. Should it be fully determin ed to proceed further with tbe new conoty movement, the Republican will endeavcr to j lace before its roadere all fact ' bearing upon the proposed change. It '.a argued that aa a means of satisfying all parties to the county aeat controversy, and forever burying and obliterating the oM feud that for so'rnany yntrs has ben in evidence in this pownt , the new county idea pre sents the must possibl i opening. Un less some euch pi in is adopted , there will , in all prtbibility b. many dif ficulties iu the way of smooth sailing proscription value FOURTH t A proscription that lucks in the lciist csscnliul is worse tliuu worthless).. It may be positively dangerous a peril to the lift; nl the patient. It may defeat the doctor's i-tl'urtu, ami it may ri tsrd the recuperative forces of nature. To have any value wlmtev r, a prescription mu-t be compounded from drugs that are nliso lulely pure and of standard potency. It must be exactly what the doctor intended it should he. If it is this, it is certainly worth the retail value of the drugs it contains. Our prescription etr vice if right b'.th in quality end cost. f r I he new county seat for years to come. . Tbe question before tbe people is this: Isn't tbere some way of pai manently aetilmg this contention, and doesn't tbe new county idea seem abiut the beat way? Think it over. The Republican suggests a oonfereooe of leading t x payers of Union and La Grande with tie objtot io new - of permanently settling their differences. Union Republioan. Mr J Butts,' from Snake River, about fifteen miles below Huntington, is in tbe city proving np on soma de sert claims. Mr. Butts reports that the fruit, especially the peaohee, in that community are as nice as CJuld potsibly b, and that they have not lieen damaged io the least by tbe frosts. The Hon, Peter McDonald, joint state senator for this aad Wallowa o unties, aod bis wife di ovo into tbe city yesterday altera: on. t ' j BEST COUUH MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN. ' When you buy a cough medicine for,, small children you want one in which you can place implicit confidence. You " want one that not only relieves but euros. Yon want one that ia unques tionably harmless. You want one that . ia .pleasant to take. Chamberlain's t Cough Remedy meeta all of these con ditions. There Is nothing so goed for he coughs and colds Incident to child ood. For tale by All DruggiBts. y . : v r ? i : Store : 1W