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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVE!
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VOLUME III
LA GRANDE. OREGON. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 24. 1904
NUMBER 246
EASTERN
OREGON
LUMBER
La Grande and Other
Eastern Oregon Points
Send Large Quanti
ties East.
Eaatern Oregon whits pine is gain
ii g a naiinnal reputation and ship
ments are bsiug made daily from B
kr City and La Grnde of finished
lumb r to all poind went of the Mis
t.sippi river and lo many points in
Chicago territory
; Manager Grant Qeddes of the Ore
goo Lumber Company report that
Una season tbey have bad a Urger
li roe than usual in the lumber oamp
n the mountains and tbat they bave
cut on tbe average b mt a hnndrei
t"ousaod feet per day. Tbe La Grande
m i s bave put up nbmt as roucn fin
isbid lumbr and Stoddard Bros.
Shockley and McMurrtn and Bumpier
tire turning out as mueb more so tbat
till something over three hundied
thousand feet of lumber pt r day is be
ing manufactured here.
Large stocks of lumber are being
1 iid b for futute shipment and tbe
logging csmpe sre being run to full
i: ipiioity.
Wheat Decline;
Chicago, Au, 24 Old September
today opened at $1.09 and closed at
81.10 New8eptmberopeuedattl.09li
and oloeed at $ 1 1Q4. Corn 64i
m- Oats, 33.
Will Ship 10,000 Lambs
Pendleton, Aug, 24-The J E Smith dealer, fought a duel with revolvers to
Company will ship 10 000 lambs all day aa a result a quarrel over mon
Shrosblre gradea, to Chicag o within ey. Morris is seriously wonnded and
25 days if they are not sooner purohaa- Orr is dying.
NETTLETON'S
FINE - SHOES - FOR - MEN
HIGH GRADE ONLY
We bave received a shipment of the above well known fine shoes for men,
rooeisling of all bites and widths.
See our Nettleton Shoe Window, where you will see a combination of laets and
patterns. Fit, Comfort, Style, Individuality and effect sre all combined in the
Nettleton Shoe.
The Chicago Store
THE BUSIEST STORE IN TOWN
Adams Ave., La La Grande, Oregon.
ed by agent. These lamb were bred
fur muttuu nod ar- In pink of condition
and Increasing in weight every day
on the range around Meaoham, from
wb'ch point they will te shipiad.
War And Politics
Oyster Bay, Aug. 24 Senator Lodge
of Ma-sachusatia arrive! today and
apent the greater part of the day in a
oonference with President Roosevelt.
Ha read the nreaidanta letter of acoeot
ano. and distuned affair. i the tar .
east and th relation of the govern-i
ment to the neutrality question.
No appreb' siun la felt by either tbe
president or Lodge tbat the United
States will be drawn into tba war situa
tion.
General News
Foil reports from tbe storm at St.
Paul and vicinity say tbat 15 neople
lost their lives Saturday night.
The total trade between the Unltid
Slates and the Philippine du na tl.e
last fiscal yer amounted to 116,898,794
Uiab socluliela nominated f a 1
state tiokat Monday, headed by Joseph
Kaufman, ol Salt Lake for governor.
Lightning started several fire lo
Chicago Monday, some of them requir
ing the fire department to extinguish.
The miners d' ported tr m Cripple
Creek, ondav, were cruelly beaten by
tbe mob, bile enroote to the line of
the couoy
The striking picking house employes '
have made an api eal lo the publ o f ir
fund with which to tarry on the
strike. '
Bince tbe opening of tbe St. Lrnis
fai", the total attendance bas been 7,
566,878, the total for tbe past week a
mnunting lo 641,283.
Judge Parker baa discouraged Sun
day visits to hia home at Roscmout,
and accordingly one solitary pollthiin
from a remote district paid him a visit
last Sum.ny.
Tb Mormon colony In Canada lias
offered peoial Induce meat a to recruits
from Utah and otber orovdrd Mormon
centers and tbey are now flocking to
Alberta by the hundreds.
Fatal Pistol Duel
Sedalia, Mo., August 24. Orr, a
farmer, and W T Morria. a real estate
Nettleton lasts are creations of stndy and thor
ough knowledge of the anatomy of the human
foot.
If you have had trouble with your feet try pair
of Nettleton's fine shoes; then you will realize where
the trouble was.
Prioes $6.00, 16 50 aud 17.00.
Pat. Calf, Valore Calf, Pat Eid, Pat Colt, Pat
Cordovan, Chrome Wax, Kangaroo and many
UNION
MAN IS
MISSING
$ JhOUfiht DV Pendk-
ton Officers to
Been Drugged
Robbed.
Have
and
The Pendleton Tribune eaya :
Has Jobu Nixon, the O R A N en -ployeof
Union wbu wae drugged at l
robb-d Sunday1, Been spirited awn; 1
Tbat is what the officers believe as up
to a late hour last night Niioubi.1
not put iu an appearance aud no trace
of bim ooul I be found.
Nixon bad recently arrived in tl.a
oity from Union and during his travv
els ab)ut town be iuoidentally becaois
arquaiutod with two other men, a1
strangers, having
arrivdd lo the oily
bout a week sgo. Sunday tbe the, o
men met in a saloon on Mnin sin-, t
amj began drinking. Later tbey went
to the re Q lba ioon ,nd there, it
. lrf N,ri, R, administered a done
!ol "knockout a tops." His psrci n
i was then searobed, according to tl e
theory, and the two alleged friend a
cured $40
Nixon partially recovered from the
e fleets ol (he drink later in tbe du j
and reported the matter, to Aotiug
City Marshal Ciffman. The (.fficer,
aided by Sheriff Taylt r, began a starch
for tbe guilty offenders aud in a short
time arretted two men on suspioion
Tbey are O W Orl? anl R H Bi ton
ley. The prisoners were taken to t i
county j ill where tbey are being bel.1
for lurlher developments.
Il is understood tbat these men, al
though strangers bave a number o'
frieudi in the city aud itiebtl:evd
that Nixon bas been persuaded to
leave Ptndieton and drop the om
agaiust lbs suswots. Nixon may
have gom to Adams yesterday b' w-
rrnrmrrmmm n i iiii i ii m i nr Qim'i;
ever as it ia understood his wife and
bby bave b an there (or si ver I dayt,
ATTACH BODY
DEAD WOMEN
After being safely burled In the ce ro
uter v for almost two years and upon
exhumation foi the purpose of being
removed to the old fumlly burial
ground in Tennesaee only to be at
tached f T dbt by the pbysloian who
attended htr during ibe sickness which
cause' bar death was the sad fate which
befall the body of Mrs Robert Mllhourn
in Milton Saturday. It was a proce
dure wblob la very, verv reldom heard
of. But th doctor bill wa finally
payed and tbe oorpa proceeded on It
way to Tennessee
Bodies Found
The bodies) of William MoKenzle
and Miss Ka'e Bast, who disappeared
from Belllngham too weeks ago were
fonnd Monday floating lu the Lake
Wbatoom.
Lay Corner Stone
Astoria, August 24 This alternoon
at 2 o'clock tbe corner atone r f Clat
sop o muty'a new court house wa laid.
The ceremony was performed under ihe
auapl ra of the grand 'odg of Masons
ot tbe stale of Oregon.
Many prominent citizens of the
oounty, as well as different parte of
the state, witnessed the ceremony.
Land Jumpers
P Bouly and N Lindsay, claim jump
era, were found dea l on a trail in the
mountains near St. Marv'e, Idaho,
Monday with 13 bullet holes in their
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noaiea. A imro juinper unmea xyier,
is mieeing. The I'ltiz-ns are ii.furiated
over the actions of the claim jumper
who have Infested that oountry this
season.
Work on tbe City Hall is progres
sing r pidly. Those who have visited
the building i:id are familiar with the
building trade pronounce it one of the
bit buildings in eastern Oiegnn. The
very bwt material and workmanship
are being used.
Clothing Sale
THE PORT
ALL BUT
FALLEN
Strong Chain of D?
fenses Have Been Cap
tUred and Port Arthur
May Soon Fall.
Chefoo, August 21 After tremend
ous attacks the Japanese yesterday
aecceeded In eapiurlng another chain
of forts and Port Arthur has now all
but fallen. Shells from the Japaneae
guns swept clear over tbe divide and
dropped Into the harbor below but it Is
not known tbat any damage was
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to the warships or smaller shipping
therein.
The news was brought hero this eve-
ning by refugeea from p. rt Arthur who
howevirknow nothing of the losses
They assort, how iver, that owing to '
tbe stubbornness of tbe defense the
Japanese muBt have sgain pa d heavy
toll In human life for their gain
StoesBol's residence was sbat'ered by
shells which were thrown from a
position obtained bv the Japsnese be
tween Golden hill and Ibe town Sunday.
To gain this p'dm the Japanese foroes
pressed Ihe Russian center along tbe
railway line and at tbe same time
pressed the Rustlan right wing near
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Later the at lackers oc
cupied Taiping Tee. The refugeer
oor.flrm the report tbat the Japanese
bave received at leasi 30,oOO more men
from the noribern army.
Within the fortress all arangemente
go steadily forward for a fight to tbe
very last and each position sained by
th' Jnua e-e w II be eon ested bitterly
The Rus'lans confidently expeot that
f they can but hold out a month the
tide of war will have turned until Kur
Opaftln will bi aide to ieliee tbe be.
sieged garrison and oep the Japan
ThU is the last week of our Clothing Sale
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Every Suit in our entire line is sacrificed.;:
Come and get your pick. These are all new'
and Up-to-date Qoods. "
All $20 00 Suits go for........ -.16 00
All 18 Suits go for........'..... 16
All 16 Suits go for..........;.. 12
All 12 60 Suits go for. '.. . . 10 85
All other prioes in proportion.
PICK TI
Many Odds aud Ends of Summer and sea
to'iahle goods that are exceptional values
in ast be closed out in the next two weeks.
Jim J$ufj
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ese back in final defeat. The spirits of
the garrison remain ssngu he and da
termined. A spirit of almost berolo
frenzy prevails, many i f the iren si- j
j aerting that they will die rather than )
I be captured . '
PREPARE TO CELEBRATE
So confident are the Japanese sym
' pathizera at Chefoo that the days of
Port Arthur are numbered that pinna
are under way for tbe ce'ebration of
; its downfall. Huge slat ds with gor
j genua decorations are being tncled
I and la tern staffs arianged along ninny
J thoroughfares. -. .
i But little Interest aeena to be taken
; hero In the Shanghai neutrally aQu r,
other than tbat show by the news-
I mnur nnrrnnnnnilnnta Rrtrl cnimnla. The
PooP' In general apparently regard
China's neutrality aa a matter of but
small moment and would undoubtedly
accept a 'all to wa- aa a holiday. Con
BJenca In Japanese prowe I main
tained and predictions are made that
with the downfall of Port Arthur peace
will follow.
Nearing Completion
The project of building a ship t ami
'across Ifloilda has attain rom to the
'ore, and there is a strong probability
10 ufa,B cairieri . ous. a oanai,
known a" 11,9 Florida Coastline Canal,
npdy rearing .o, plotion and now
extends from St Anguetioe. on the
,rrth lo on th 80uth.
oompiete miaou way ol over sou miles.
Pendleton Market.
The local wheat market. bas bien on '
a steady decline fur the pstlwoday
and is quoted today: Club 6Toenta
end bluostera 73 J oents. Yesterday
and today sbiut 15,000 sacks of grv.u
were disposed of.
Many farmers are of the opinion
thxt prioes will again advanoe but '.he
grainmeu take a different view A
larmr remarked tbis alt moon E. W.
MoOomas:
"When arayou going to give me 80
cents for my wheal t" I
The reply was: "You will bave to
wait snverai weeks, lam afry.lJ." E O
The regular band concert will tske
place on Friday evening of tbla week.
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