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If conslous of having done what
you oould to provide (or your friends.
There are differtnt ways to do tbie,
but none better than to provide them
with a home
If you haven't done tills, we'd like
to null you one. A auinll payment
will tccuro it, ami aftiraard the out;
lay won't be much more than houjo
taut Either way we're bound to
please you.
ja Srande Snvestment Company,
1110 Adams Avenue, ' La Grande, Oregon
OFKICERBs -
On, Palheb. . . . . . , President
J. H. Bxbrt.... Vice President
J. M.CHUBCn... .. .Cashier
; DIRECTORS : .
i. M. Berry, J. M. Church
A. B. Conley, Geo.ti. Clea
ver, Goo, Palmer
' F. h. Mktebs and Geo L Cleaver Asst. Cashiers
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La Grande National, B nk
La Grande, Oregon
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $72,000.00
Transact! a general banking business. Buys and sells exchange on
CUR RE? BROS., Editors 4 Prop
Entered at itbe Post Office at La
Grande, Oregon, aa Beoond Claaa
Mall Matter. '
Published daily except Sunday
Lt Grande Evening Observer 210B during tie civil war.'
: , . . I 1 here are now 7,107 pension
ers iu Oregon that for the. year
ending June 30, 1904, drew
1368,923 pension money from
the United Stales, a eum larger
than it takes to run oar state
government a year.
The city council should pass
an ordinance prohibiting prop
erty owuers from running their
sewerage into the street. 'There
are scores of streets in this eity
which are made absolutely vile
by the sewerage aud refuse from
the kitchen which is thrown in
to the street. This " should . be
stopped. It is not justice to
the rest of the population." ..'
0e year in advance. ... , ,$6 50
Six mouths in advance. , . .3 60
Per month . .'. . . . ........ , ,65c
Single copy 5c
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT 2. I$04
all parte of the world. Collections a specialty.
Meat Market
Stellwell & Vandermuelen, Proprietors.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUTCHEPS.
Highest market price paid for all kinds of butchers'
stock Hides, pelts and furs. Also chickens & poultry.
Coal For Hot Weather
Our Rock Spring coal will give eatisfjt'iou
We always haye it 011 hand. Castle Gate and Clear
Creek coal, too, if you would rather have it. We al
ways have coul, all kinds aud at lowest piices. If
you want wood we can furnish you the kind that burns
longest aud best.
G. E- FOWL ER,
TRANSFER AND DELIVERY
Phone iVo 1611
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We will call for it and bring it
home when promised .
We guarantee satisfaction aud only ask for a
trial order to demonstrate to you that we un
derstand the laundry business. r"ou can stop
our wagon at any time or phone the Lanudry
and your work will be called for at once. We
make a specialty of family washing, and can
do your washing better and cheaper than
jou. A trial order solicited.
Union Steam Laundry
PHONE 1981. 742 FIR STREET.
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TURKESTAN ALFALFA
The Dry Land Alfalfa grows without irri
gation.
BROME GRASS
Red Clover, Alfa.fa and all kinds of
Garden Seed in bulk
Seed Wheat, Baled
Barley, Oats, Etc'
The only Seed House
inUnion County.
A.. V. Oliver
JEFFERSON AVE. Phone 1571
The momenta man can really do bis
work be becomes epeschlets about it.
All words become idle to- bim, all
theories. Does a bird need to theorize
about building its nest or boast of it
when built? All good worn Is essen
tially done that way, without hesita
tion, without difficulty, without boast-
ing.-Ruskin. , .i
"A man coi rimed against bis will,
Is of the same opinion still,"
ABOUT PENSIONS
In the complaint filed in the
county seat case the allegation
is that the present court house
and grounds ' are reasonably
worth $25,000." If that state
ment is correct our ..city ball is
reasonably worth $75,000 and
then some.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS
GRAIN BAGS GRAIN BAGS
$4.75 per 100
; By order ol the State Board of Prison Directors, 1
am authorized to sell grain bags irvany quantity . arova
600 manufactured at San Quentin Prison at a price
fixed at $4.75 per 100. Bag delivered free in 8an Fran
cisco. Orders must be accompanied with cash or ex
change on San Francisco in full, and also with the fol
. lowing affidavit verified before a Notary Publio or Justice
ofthe Peace: ,,'rw ; , - .
S.. "I hereby certify that I am a consumed residing
in. .......... .and that the bas ordered by me are for
my own personal and individual use."
Subscribed and sworn to before me this. . . .day of , . , ,
Seal ..
' '-The bags are of the same capaoity as standard Oalout
tss, and superior in quality. Don't delay eend in your
order today to J. W. TOMPKINS, Warden' San Quen
tin Prison, California
Sample of tbese toga to be seen at this otfloa.
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The word pension is derived
from the latin word, pducio, a
payment, and refers to allowanc
es of money paid in fixed a-
mounts at . c.rtain times. In
common parlance it means the
amount paid to ex-soldiers Some
consider a pension to an old
soldieras agratuity without con
sideration, an. offering of charity.
Others regard the pensions paid
to our old soldiers as recompense
for services rendered, the public,
the fruits of which service the
public is yet receiving benefits
It has ever been ihe policy of
the United States to pension its
disabled Boldiers during their
lives. For a long time the dis
ability to entitle, to a pension in
the United St'ites, must have
originated during the military
sorvice of the recipient, but oi
late years disability from old age
or other cause after discharge
entitles to a pension.
The first pension act of Con
gress bears date August 26, 1776,
but thei'e grew up some opposi
tion to the national government
pensioning volunteers or troops
furnished by the (tales and in
1785 Congress recommended
that I be se voi al states provide for
invalid soldiers. But on the
adoption of our preseut constitu
tion the idea of nationality be
came more pronounced and in
1789 and 1808 the United Stales
asmiutd the pension obligations
of several states.
The Coin missionerof Pensions
in his report for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1904, gives the
total amount paid by the United
States for pensions up io that
dute at $3,179,717,161 05 which
was divided among 3,304,0011
military and naval participants
in all our wars.
The year 1902 was pension's
high tide; with 1,000,732 nuracs
on the pension rolls. On July
1, 1903. there were 990,545 pen
ioners and on July 1, 1904, there
were 994,762 a felling off of
1,783 during the year; notwith
standing President Roosevelt's
order, about which the Demo
crats made such a fuss, to con
sider every old soldi'T 70 years
old as unable to work for a liv
ing, and therefore entitled to a
pension .
During the past year 47,374
Dispatches bearing date from
Union will bear closer inspec
tion from our readers the next
few days than those ' iiom Po-t
Arthur.
This last bit of sharp practice
on the part of Union to disfran
chise seventy per cent of the
voters of Union county will not
meet with the hearty approval
of Ihe tax payers aud voters who
by their votes last June expressed
their tenet that La Urande is
the better place for the county
seat of government. The Amer
ican spirit of fair play and re
gard for majority rule which j
permeates the Union county
citizens will not take a pleasant
view of this movement on the
part .of our sister town. This
couuly seat quostion ib one jn
which tho eutire county is inter
ested and does not effect any one
8eciion in particular The
people of the county have said
they wished Ihe county seat to
be lorn led at La Grande and they
are not wtll pleased wi'.b this as
sumption of power on the part
of a few of Hie people who re
side in Union.
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Farmers' and Traders "
National Bank. -7 n
LAGRAN DE, - : OREGON 14n,
Capital Stock fully paid '9 60,000 O
Surplus fund - . . 18.000 : " B
Liability of Shareholder 00,000
Responsibility 188,000
We do a general banking and exchange business.
Drafts bought aud sold on partem and foreign banks.
JOSEPH PALMER, President . ...
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Special Excursion to the World's
Fair.
The Denver and Rio Orande, In con
nection witli the Missouri Pacific,
will run n series of personally con
ducted excursions to the World's fair
during Juno. Those excoraious will
ruu through to St. Louie without
change of cars, milking short stops at
principal points ouronte. The first of
these excursions will leave Portland
Juno 7, aud tho second June 17. The
rate from La (iraude 'ill be SCO to St.
Louis and return. Excursionists go
ing a Ik tho Denver & Kio Urande have
Ihe privilege of returning by a differ
ent route. Thin Is the must pleasant
way, as well aa the most delightful
route to croas the oontinent. 1 be
stops arranged give an opportunity
of visiting in und about Kansas ;itv,
If you wiub to accompany one of tbese
excursions write at once to W O Mo
llrlde. 1'24 Third street, Portland, for
Bleeping oar reaervationa
TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3. 1878.
.NOTICK FOR l'l'HI.IOATION.
;U. t. ljinil Otllce, Hi Im Orande, Or.,
May U, MOLI
Nottfe Is heri'hy K'ven that In rxmipllanc
will Ilia limvlftnnH tir Ilia Rot of UoaureHM al
,lunp8, IS7H, nititli'd "An act Tor the Kali; ol
tliulii.r IihiiIh III tho state of California, Ore
gon, NmvikIii, ami Wiothlnjrton Territory "
aNexli-nrtrTl loiilltlie I'liollc lind Ktatfi by
ai-t ol AnutiKt I, lrl, Mary H Murhy, ol
Terry, romitv "f IJalnn. -titto of Orejron, him
thin day tiled 111 tlila iittlen tier flworn Hlile
nirnt No ilol, for the i. iirelm.se of Hie V(iSW
and SUs WU ..r '.oIh.h No, 26 in Townh,i.
No. H, K No. ji K. W. .f.,and will otrr-r prool
i.iKiiriw inai (lie niiio NriiiKiii m inrir. vaiuaoii'
for I1h OtnOer or klone llian for nirrleulttlral
fMirixifei. anil to eHt'itilfHli lier claTm to nald
and ta.fore the llr-irllrT and Receiver ol ttiU
ollie.. al Iji (Iranrle, llr'KOll, on Monday,
tkielNt dav of aol'iihI. 1IKU.
Mhe iiamm an wllneRen: A. I. Bean, Phoehe
Ilnlll-. .lolin .1. Mnriiliy. and Italpu 11. uullli,
o in ifrn , i rri-iiiiii.
Anv nnrl all nerwini elnlmliiK adveniely Ihr
nlu.v.,l.M.,.pllu.a l.r.,1. .u piu.ii.hiI.mI l,t Al
names wreadd'd lo the nension .their ciaimum ttii uiii on or before id
ft lit d .V Of AllLOlHI. I'.OI.
w. IWV1S, Kegliocr,
rolls, 320 of which were placed ,
there by special acts ol Congress,
during the same time. There
died 43,820 pensioners, 1,019
widows remarried, 1,009 minors
l.ecaine of age, the losses from
other causes amounted to 12,610
' There are now 690,702 inva
lid soldiers of the civil war on
' the pension rolls, 253,980 wid
I owe of that war and 606 army
j nuites.
The total number of men en
gaged on the Union side was 2,-
full, measure
. Chain wood by the . Cord .
128 cubic feet to the cord. 16-inch ' dry ' chain .
wood $3 per oord. This is cheaper than ty the . load.
Yon pay for what you get ard get what you pay for.
Phone 571
H. W. NIBLEY I
A Few Clioic Bargaina in Wal
lowa County Real Estate
(1) 200 aim 9 ot land, 123jeao.ipiblQ of cultivation, U3 a
in fall sown wheat. ttoaM, iara awl othar bullJin. A yf
gnflpnn ?2,fKX ...
(2) ncresRrnall orchard, h.itlMt, Uro and good oatbutldlngt, M aOrttlti'lVn
sown ffimn; urn. ill Atnuim of wntor (tow through place A ffreat bargaJa m $,6O0
a,(lrri of fttui (wrt ot wlilcfl in the (lneHt of mouduW; Kiwi bfHMc and
oilibilildiliH KotKlhrty ili-jdi. ax) tou o( hay can be cut Oil ihe pUo will Uke
in catllf iii trade on 1I1U pnfftui ty. 1'rkO $10 per acre.
4 ifUai:rvi, 13) of ctuiioe tmid l'r( tV per aure. Tbii il a great harffala. ,
5 ot (liic Imid t IKi per Her. Tha are a fow ot tho many anapl W
ii.iyc io ouut hi in way oi rixti chuik oargnuiw, ror mruiur (Mnwiiuui Tiiir .
M'DR.niel
WALLOWA,
6c M'Donald
OREGON
Huw dtar to my beart Is the old-fashioned washbsard
flint mother oseil tn wash on whon I was a boy,
With its zinc-covercil ridKOS ihu suds used to play io
And Boap Imii'iliia uninliiil -d to my ehlidish joy.
Ofttlmoi hive I watchml her when waarlug her knuckles.
As ovor tha rhinos our duds she would rub,
I ne'er will fort(nt how b)io snlaahe 1 aud b., slstberep
The old fashioned wash board that stond in the tub.
CHORUS
, Tho old fashioned wanhlioaril;
Toe zinc-covered washboard;
The buck hri'uking washboard that stood in the tub.
Some folks nl way kick bliont up-to-ilute lauildri.18,
And s.iy thejr wear out thalr clothes every day;
But tiiva Ihnin tn me, so I will have a hot dinner
At home, with the small of the soup suds away.
I know that the washing machine is much easier
On all of our olothi'S than to take tlnjin and rub
Till the buttons nn I bosoms are lost and worn oat
liy tho old fauhlono l wanhuoard that stood in the tub.
We are not the old funhionod kind.
ABC' LAUNDRY" j
PHONE i85i : , :
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City Property For Sale
Finely Located, Well Improved 5-Room House For
Sale. Also Other City Property "At
GRANT & HERR0NS
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WE at$ HEADQUARTERS
For ICodak and Kodak Sujpliea
A complete stock of professional paper. Plates at wholesale prices. Mail orders
answered promptly.
La Grande DriurCo. and Red Cross Drug Co
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io physician. Osteopathic llnalth.
' Vt. Moore, Hum mi r IMg.