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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1904)
t i It Speaks For Kjelf u 1U perfectly clear that no loan can be mad on any pleca of property on a better basis than our offer. The transaction la qutrkly conaamated and theVoat la' comparatively trifling. V fi The Read To Fortune ' ' ; j U;o(tn reached through the ibedlom of a loan. U 700 think yon aee a obanoe, doa't let it pasa. Yon may , regret ,. It. "Nothing riak,., 'nothing win." " We're got the money and we'll treat yoo right. Alao Home (or aale on Installments, ' La Grande Evening; Observer CUR BET BROS., Ed It on Prop jCa Srande Snvestmont " Company, 1110 Adams Avenue,' -.' . ; Lu Grande, Oregon 4 a orriosRSi - Gao. Palmeb President J. M.BsaBT...... Vice President J. M.CHCaCH.......;. ..Cashier " DIRECTORS: "" ' J. M, Berry, J.H.Ohuiuh 1 a. & Conley, Geo. lu Ciea-1 . ver.Geo. Palmer ? ' 9 ' a F. L. Marias and Geo L Clearer Aasr. Oaiblera ' 3655 L a Orande National; B nk La Grande, Oregon J CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $72,000,00. , : Iranaaoti a general banking business. ' Bays and eelle exchange en all Hurts ol the world. OoUectiona a apedaltyi" aiiiOBOOOBaaaBDfistsssssstiataiai JOHN JAMISON WESTULL ELVA JAMISON We will call for it ! and bring it home whfcnvpromiscdi , We auarantce satisfaction and oulv ask for a . trial order to demonstrate to you that we un derstand the laundry business, ou can stop our wagon at any time or phone ibe Laundry and your work will be called' for at once; ' We make a specialty or family washing,-" and can do your washing better and cheaper than on. A trial order solicited. Union Steam Laundry 7 r . . PHONE 1981. 742 FIB STREET. TURKESTAN ALFALFA The Dry Land Alfalfa grows without irri gation. BROME GRASS ; ' Red Clover," Alfa.fa and air 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 St EWlIfe FEIM llfCWE- The Triumphantly successful plsy HOYT'S ! "A TEXAS STEER" A play to be proud of. With a great cast including Will H. Bray, May Stockton, "Original Minister to Dahomey" Aa " Boaiy" Harjy B. Emery, Aa "Maverick Brander" And 20 others, with the famous TEXAS STEER QUARTETTE Wednesday Sept 21 PRICES: 60c, 75o, and $1.00. Children 25o 8eaU on sale Monday morning. u D II n o n a n n D a D rj n Entered at the Poet Office at La Grande, Oregon, ; as Beoond Olaat Mail MatUr. . Published daily except Sunday One year in advance,.,., ..$660 Six months in advance. . . .3 50 Per month. ; . . ; . ; ...... ;-. .65o Single copy ...... .c SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, DRUG& La Grande Drug Co. and Red Cross Drug Co I ji FHI0r EVENING. SEIT 16, 1904 , A HOOT COURTS ;-: 0d6 of the diversions that the pioneers in the western forests and praries a generation ago was the Moat Conrt, , It - would be given out that in the neighbor hood log, school-house, on. the following Saturday evening a Moot Court ' would be held for the trial of male factors. At the appointed time and place the men and boy would gather by the light of tin lanterns or hick ory bark torches and organize as court by the selection of a judge, sheriff, jury and prose outing 'attorney. These prelimi naries being - attended to with great solemnity the Sherifl, with a loud voice would declare, "The High Court of Coon Creek now in session" whereupon the pro secuting attorney ' would, direct the sheriff to bring1 forth the pri soner and the trial would begin rhe Jurors were sworn "To well and truly try the case: before them with malae aforethought, eschuing common sense and re jecting all facts." The witnesses were sworn to swear to the best advantage to insure the convic tion of the culprit before the court, to tell no truth under pain of! being held in Contempt of oourt and punished severely." Innocent as this pioneer pas time Besmsd to be, and was con sidered to be by the back woods men, like all tnffleing with truth and sporting with falsehood the effect was pernicious upou publio morals. The Moot Court was in vogue in the formative periods of political parties,' The Demo cratic party " that was always more imitative than original, took it as its workiug model upon which to conduct campaign Now the prejudged, culprit, the Democratic party is organized to oondeui, after the modelit fol lows, must be assailed with un truth and no member of the. party under pain of being punished for contempt, dare exercise com mon sense upon the facts of life about them. The utterances it gives forth as platform like the testi money of Moot Court witt mediate platforms declare for a tariff for revenue only, while the one on which' Horace Greeley ran in 1872 left the tariff to the Congressional ' districts. We leave it to our readers to recon cile the statement that,' An ade quate protection to American iudustry is indispensable with the others refusing protection and declaring for revenue only,' and the last one that denounoes protection as robbery.' MALTHA GUARDS JAIL , .. Observer Special . Hunteville, Ala, Hept. 16 The Madison county jail ia guarded tonight by oompaniea G. and K. Tbird ; Ala bama lnfan'ry, Decanae' threats bad been made by peraonalndioted by the grand jury in e nneot ion with the lynching of Horace Maplea and placed in jail that tbey wonld be taken by hienda and set at, liberty. Ben Hill one of tue alleged lynohera waa cap tured and lodged in jail today. The offloera are looking for nine otbera wbo wore indicted. . 8olioitor Peters denies the rumor that 8heriS Sogers and Mayor Smith were indicted. IMPORTANT TO FARMERS GRAIN BAGS v GRAIN BAGS , $4,75 per 100 ' By order of the State Board of Prison , Direotors, I ; ' am authorized to sell grain bags in any quantity arove ' 600. manufaotured at Sen tuentin ; Prison at a price fixed at $4.75 per 100. Brigs delivered free in San Fran, cisco. Orders must bp accompanied with cash or ex change on Sm Francisco in full, and also with . the fol lowing affidavit verified before a Notary Publio or Justice ,. of the Peace: "I hereby certify that lama- consumer . "residing in . . : . . . . ... . . .and that the bat s ordered by me are , for my own personal and individual UBe." Subscribed and sworn to before me this.. .. day of.... Seal ..i.. The bags are of the same capacity as standard Calcut ' tea, and superior in quality. Don't delay send in your order today to J. W. TOMPKINS, Warden San Quen- tin Prison, California . i Hamplei of theae begs to be seen at this offloe, , , aBHBBflnBBHflRDBRBBBDRIR Farmers' and Traders. ; "National Bank; R A LAGRANDE, OREGON, J " Capital Stock fully paid . $ 60,000 Surnlusfund - - 13.000 Liability of Shareholders - 60,000 Responsibility .' , 133,000 ; " ' . We do a general banking and exchange business. . C rafts bought and sold on eartern and foreign banks (J a a if .V PAlue DlAetC Ti Borne of the excavations at Nl5fr show that the Babylonians had multi plication tables five times as long aa thoee commonly used in schools. Moat little men and w.omen, for Instance do not have to go further than twelve Omea twelve, but the little Babylonian children, saya Dr. Herman V. ' HH procht, who superintended the late ex. cavatlona, bad to go as far as sixty times sixty. Numbered fragments of tablets bear ing these "roultlpUcaUon tables" have been found,' some few of which go aa far as 1,800' times 1,800 But these were evidently .only for astronomical purposes: Those old astronomers eeum to have felt bard pressed for time, and when they were calculating the 'distances of the new stars they found, anil tbelr size, they did not want to take the time to multiply, and so Just referred to these tables Imatona. BTlaeace of Brewltmna. Guest-Why do you believe In eecoa sight major? " " Major Darby.fln an Impressive whl per) Because I fell In love at first slghtl Punch. I If a row threatens yon don't let It gi to far that yon become bitter and nn willing to brt yourself In ord"r V bnrt yonr enemy. " - JOSEPH PALMER, President J. W. SCRIBER, Cashier... BDBBBBBBDBBBBBflKI eeeeeeeeHeaeee FULL, MEASURB Chain wood by the Cord 128 cubic feet to the cord. 16-inch dry chain wood $3 per cord. This is cheaper than ly the load. You pay for what you get ai-d get what you pay for. Phone S7i H. W. N1BLEY A Ee-vs- Choice Bargain in Wal- Iowa County Real Estate Jjl (1) 200acnof lanii, lSJaj'ei iipibli of cnltlntlM, 111 ao g In fall town wheat. Home, urn vil i:b' Diiillno -t g snapanS2,500 ' ' ' m (2) 2W acre.snalt orchard, h.iase. turn and good outbuilding 80 acres In fall la I&l 0 ncrea of :ai(l part ol whlcfl is the nueii of meadow; good hoaae and outbuild, uirt goodh sheds. AM tona of hay can be cut on He place will take l&oO in oattle 1,, trade on thla property. Price $10 per acre- 4 leOa-Toa. laiofo'toice land HrL $10 per acre. Tliii t a great bargain. 5 160aett'4or llue land al $: per ar These are a few of the many anapt We have to offer ID tb way of real eaUte bargatna. For further particulars addnaa, M Donald Christina W Marphr Administratrix. For Rent fhe bulldiog formerly occupied by the Salvation army. Kor full par tly ultra and ratea inquire ol Mrs 8 O Zuber. Aug. 31 1 1 FIRE PROOF SAFE Kor sale, weight 2300, price (50. Call or write I, a Grande Pawnbroker Phone 1581. nesses are framed to the best ad . NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. .... Notioe ia hereby given to all whom Vantage eschuing truth. u may concern, that Christian W Th fnrnonino in a I'&rah ftp- Mnrphy, has Bled her flnai account ine loregoinglS a L..sn ac M adminietratrlx of the estate of CIlSatioQ but if any person will, Thomas N Murphy, deceased and the take the trouble to read all the tSVS Democratic national platiorma' n1ri A-D.- 190i 'l.two "'"l p M , . . . r lor the hearing of ent h report. Degining witn tne nrst one pro mulgated in 1832, the one on which Gen. Jackson was elected the second term and compare the statements each gives out as facts, the positions they take and i oreeds they declare, the perform ance they accomplish the tnithfullness of the charge will be established by the record. In the first platform iu 1832 the 1st Resolution reads: "Resol ved that an adequate protection to Ameiican iudustry is indis pensable to the prosperity of the country. The tecond is; Resolved that a uniformsystem of internal im provement, sustained and sup-i ported by the general govern ment, is calculated to secure, in the highest degree, the har mony, the strength and permau ncy of the republic. The Democratic platform of 1904 denounces protection as robbery several of the inter- M'DR,r.iel WALLOWA, 6c IfAlliEK LAND, ACT JUNG 3, 1878 , NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION U P. Lud Ofllce at La Gmnde, Omgoa I August 11, 9Q4. 1 Notice I hereby given that In compliance will the provision of the act of Coujirong ol JuoeK, 187S, en tilled "An hcv for the mile o( I tlmoer lantli In the Hbtuw or CullfcriilH, ore-1 gon, Nevada, and WMhiuuluu rerrllorr," an r tended to all the Public Land HUiea bj nut ot August 4. l(yi, David V HuKdeQ, of Dexler- ville, cunty of Wood, ftute of Wisconsin i ha ihti day filed In thla otrtcu his mroro 1 taWnent No. nitO. tor die purchaee of the Nfa.'HWW,HK'4 NW'nud IW amHtf Sec tion No. In Township No. 5 Sou lb Itanne No. , a Dt. , an. Aad will offer proof to show i. tat the land aouyni is more valuable for lis timber or Uine than fur rrlcultuml Hirpooa. and to LaoiUh hvrelalm to mid land before the Keftister and KfoelveroC this office at Ia Onsude, Oreteua, on Tuesday, th 35th 1 1,1 OREGON jjj anpBlilBMaB6mMaBtaBgBMiBaHiBBBPiila How dear to my heart Is the old-fashioned wnshb mrd That mother used to wash on when I was a boy, J i With its zinc-oovered ridgea tbn suds used to play in And 80p bublles gainbol-d to niy ohildiaii joy . J Olttlmea hive I wtchl her wien warln her koaclcles. As over thi ridires onr dnds she woild rub, I ne'er will foret how she snlashe I and sb-t slatharep The old (ashioaed waab board that stood in the tab. I CHORUS J The old fashioned washboard; Tie alaf covered waahboar.li i The back-breakini washboar'l that stood in the tub. Z Some folks alway kick about up-to-date lauidriaa, . And Bay tliey wear out ttinlr clotbM every dty ; J But give tb'tm to me, so I will hive a hot dinner . i At home, witb the em-ll of tne soap atida away. e I know that the waab ng machine ia much enaler J On all ot our clothes than to take them and rub Till the buttoii8 an I hisnma are lost and worn out Ky the old-faBbionel washboard that stood in tne tnb, We are not the old fashioned kind. ABC LAUNDR PHONE j l85l Y dav of CH!tober. 1U04. names as wltneases: Ralph I!. Bullls, W. Henry Brown, of Dviurvdia, Wlnonnln; Leonard C Kullls, of IVrry, Oregon; and Kdward Bean ol la Orande, ureaTin. Any and all persons claiming adversely the aoove described lauds are reqiiiitd lu fli tbelr claims In tblsoinoeonor before said iMb day of October, lH. & W. Davis, HeUtr. City Property For Sale Find) Located, Well .Improved 5-Room House For Sale. Also Other City Property "At GRANT. & HERR0NS 4 ;