jCa Srande investment Company,
1110 Adams. Avenue, ' " J ' La Grande, Oregon
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GFFICEE8;' ' '; '
Qao. PaUiEa.. .". '..'....President
J. M. BasBT .Vice President
J. M.Chuboh .....Cashier
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La Grande National B nk ;
La Grande, Oregon . v .. J
t CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $72,000.00. ... " -
Transacts a general banking business. Boys and sells exchange en ;
ell parts of the world, a Oolleotions a specialty. ' ' - -
BOSS
Meat market
Stellwell & Vanderrnuelen, Proprietors. :
WHOLESALE AND - RETAIL BUTCHEPS.
Highest market price paid for all kinds of butchers'
stook Hides, pelts and furs. ' Also chickens & poultry.
Coal For Hot Weather
Our Rock Spring coal will . give satisfaction
We always baye it ou band. Castle Gate and - Clear
Creek coal, too, if you would rather have it. We : al
ways have ooal, all kinds and at lowest prices, ill,
you want wood we can furnish you the kiud that burns
longest and best. '
G. E- FOWLER,
; ' , TRANSFER AND DELIVERY i
Phone IV o 1611
iBBDQflDarjaDaQtaiciciiii
JOHN JAMISON W E
We will call for it and bring it
home wheri'promisedj
We guarantee satisfaction and only ask for a
trial order to demonstrate to you that we un
derstand the laundry business, rou can stop
our wagon at any time or phone the Laundry
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
you. A trial order solicited.
Union Steam Laundry
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PHONE 1981.
GRANDE RONDE VALLEY
FRUIT FARM
The Grande Konde Valley Fru t
H.irm oontaius 82u nores and is to be
sold in lots of five sores and up to suit
the purohaacr. li ia situated right
n'llea northeast ol La 0 ramie, Oregon ,
ucer the Klgiu branch of the O. H. &
N. Kailroad.
We furnish the purchaser at tbfl end
of three year a thriltly growing apple
orchard, oae Hint lias boon cured lor
from neli inn, in the most approved
manner, cultivating the land six to
eight times s year, keeping the ground
well pulverised, and at all times free
from weeds, grass and other vegetation
botwren May lot and August 16th cf
tnob year; keip r.g tnu trees pruned in
Ihs moat soieutifio manner: removing
and burning all outtlngs and tuckers,
snd in short do any and hII woik whiob
will bsfor the best interest of the land
and trees. We replant all trees that
ma; die in the first, second snd third
years, and pay all taxes on tho land
for three years. We lurniah the land
labor and material and trees and three
years' care, at the price of $120 per
sore, giving three yesrs In wbiuli to
pay for it.
Our term 0' payment are 65 pel
sent of purooaae price, cah ; balance !
; REAL COMFORT .
'. Ca fx-.id upon tho farm, aa?
from tiie hustle and bustle oi the city.
You'll find farm life more enjoyable
and lo sexoiiioi! This ail! mean im
provement Hi yonr health , . '
. h' vOur Offerings
in re I ua ata include many farm lands
...I It.-tiiuiiu ami am (vttll vnrlli fAVnr.
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abl4 consideration. Tlia prices are
vi-rv attractive and with a com para -tvely
a null uuinunt you'll ba able to
pur bate a nice larm home. Write u
lor lull i artionlara , .' r - ;
V DIBECTOHBt -
J. M. Berry, J. M. Church ' . -
A. B. Conley, Geo. lu Clea- ,
, ver, Geo. Palmer ; , .
STULL ELVA JAMISON
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, 742 FIR STREET.
I in throe yearly payments, bearing tn
I terext at the rata of atx per o.nt per
annum
Tin. purc.tottwr cdii remain where be
is iinike no immediate change in his
business or homo interests leaking his
present liiiaiuesa pay for bis investment
sacrificing no time while the orohard
is being brought into beariug condi
tion and rest nesiired that skilled hor-
; ticulturalists will do tbe woi k better
I than lin can utih. he lias had borti-
uulturul Bxporiunoa under oouditiont
existing in Oregon . After trees have
had scientific cure pruning and a bap
itigfor three, years, the f.ibsepuent
work is much more methodical and
can ne successfully dons by these with
out liniMcultursl skill.
As an Investment it i guilt edge)
and is the nearest possible approaob
to a guaranteed annuity.
Y have all our woik done by oon
traotaudthe contractors are under
heavy bonds to us (or tbe faithful pre
forinano of their work.
We have executed a bond to the
amount ol $10,0(10 and have appoint.'
ed Hnn.J M Church, oashier ol the
La Qrande National Oauk, trnatea to
Indemnify any parties purchasing
land on the Grande ' Konde Valley
Frnitraiiii Iron) us vbo may suffer
by pur uol luluilios; our obligations
La Grande Evening; Otaervcrland the eduration so easily
CUR RET BROS., Editor Prop
Entered at the Post; Offioe at La
Graoda, Oregon,, as ' Second -Class
Mall Matter. '- .
Published daily except Sunday
Oue year in advance. ..... $6 60
Six mouths in advance. . . .3 60
Per month. ......... . . ....65c
Single copy . . .......... ... .5c
THURSDAY EVENING, AUG 4. KHM
LABORERS IN THE UNITED
STATES "
" A little time spent in coning
over the figures o'f the United
Stater census for 1900, would be
time well spent by those en
thusiastic : labor . agitatort who
seem to believe that numerically
the laboring people are in a
large majority .in the United
States. .
It is true that more than : on
naif of tbe people in the United
States, about 68 per ' cent,', do
follow some gainful occupation
for a living but among these are
owners of their own shops,
is, professional men etc.
et us count noses. In 1900
wiore were 21,329,819 males of
voting age in the Unites! States,
In 1900 there was a total of
18,821,090 males ten years old
and over engagdd in some gain-1
ful occupation, but this number,
includes 7,887.042 agricultural
ists, and 632,646 provisionals
As neither the agriculturalists
nor tbe professionaliste affiliate
with organized labor in tb
present atitude of the labor
question ; both should be de
ducted from the above total, and
we have but 10 311,302 includ
ing the minors, that really ought
to be considered as laborers. By
going down the list of vocations
that our counted in the above
wo find agents, bankers, brokers,
wholesale merchants, retail mer
chants, officials of bank com
panies etc., to the number of
907,622 which should be de
ducted, aud being done, leaves
but 9,404,680 boys over ten
years and men 21 or over, of
this number were tbe owners of
the factories, shop owners,
blacksmith shops, boats and
ships deducted and the beys tbe
number of actual voters belong
ing to the vocations that do or
may affiliate with organised
labor would be below 9,000,000.
While the .bove figures give
the outside voting strength of
the affiliated vocations at nine
million, Mr. Mitchell, the head
man of organized labor in the
United States, cave, a short
time ago, the aggregate member
ship of organized labor at 2,-
000,000 or less than one quarter
of the men working in the
amiiatet vooations and not one
tenth as many as the voters in
the United States.
UNOOVERNED BOYHOOD
Four boys, tbe oldest 19 and
the youngest 16 have been ar
rested in Chicago, charged with
burglary as a proffession and
confessing to the charge and
turning up goods of the value of
thousands of dollars. In addition
to burglaries Enumerable, the
boys have uonfessed to the com
mission of two murders. Th
police are inclined to believe the
confession. Goods have been
identified as belonging to a par
ticular store whose proprietor a
small shopkeeper was found
murdered behina hu counter
where bis cot was located. The
boys are something on the order
of the four car barn murder.rs,
aud frankly state that the career
of the famous four was the main
incentive to their own careers
Chicago will deal with them
promptly.
The hoys in this instance are
nutive' born and children of
American pareuls in compara
tively comfortable circum
stances, able to give their
children tbe comforts of home,
but who preferred, it seems, to
allow their children the fasci-
naling discomforU of thest.;;,
acquired on the iitgnr. Sine 01 r
big city. Therein is the solulioti
of tbe Chicago car' biro murdtrs
and of,the buiglatie and inur
den committed hv tli" IuksI
j iveuile quartel. In their casea
it is shown that an ' uuequivo- al
eurrender' if paremal coutrul
wai made r.iid t'otifluded. ;
It appears that whether the
boya atteudbd euhnol cr followed
their own sweet wil's was all Oi.e
to the parent". Whether they
were borne at a reasonable hour
or. whether they roamed? f be
streets was all one to the paren's
who are now bitterly rerentin
their Course: when it is too late.
Chicago is not C the ouly city
where parental control is sur
rendered ruu youthful liurglarj
and murderers are beiug trained
up in the . way to tbe peui'eu-
tiary. ';
. Tbe establishment of Juvenile
Courts is a long step in the right
direction.- and . ail ' ; additional
number of truant officers would
be another, ' with a - curfew hell
added. ' After a fixod hour boys
have no business on tbe street
unaccompmied ry parents, or
others in the place of parents
At the bottom , of the trouble is
tbe indifference of. puieuls : If
that could he overcome and
Chicago is teaching the leeaon
truant officers would have less to
do and the penitentiaries would
not have so many alumni grad-
ua ted from the streets
Cinciu-
nati Tnbune
Japs Lose Heavily.
Cbeefon. Aug 4 A desperate tlir-'e ways, has own npproprintoly nan.es
. ,. .. . . , I 'The Wor'd'r. Fair Koine.'
days assault on the maer d.-Knsea.oo ,...,, (n)u) ,UB s..rtl.wsl taku
the northern and eastern sides of Poit tbe Miasouiii pauivio ir.iiim fiom Den
Arthur baa failed, according to advioea vef or 1.t,,,e.bl? iui Ll"."c-' ' ejil,al
. ... . ; , . . . . going direct lhrongh the Kunsas City,
brought by two junks which arnved via mM SeM gm, , nJ
here yesterday, and today. jHill.
A Ktiasian, who escaped from Port T l,ai"' ''ally from Denver and
. .u u u- d t on . . Pueblo to St. L'Uis without change,
Arthur by Pigeon Bay June 29, stales carrying ail clas.es of modern eq.iiV
that tbe earth trembled uuder tbe ment, iucludinx electric lighted n'lser-
terriffic eonnonading which began P,r,or, ,,il!!nK !Br- r"
i i si . . . 5 . .. , daily trains between hansas l'ii uu.l
July ZD, and ended during tbe nlghl gt Louis.
of July 28, when tbe battU ceaBed.'
Th Oh ns.s-.hn ,i.,d l,er nn
separate junks cor firm the fiusaian's
statement that tbe Buian killed and
wounded durng tbe assault nun hi red
between 6000 and 6000. The Jspan
eie in ibeir npetted assaults against
the eastern forts on the hills through
birbbd wire entanglements and over
mines, display, d fanatical bravery.
They were mowed down by a hail of
shells and bullets and the ex 1 ision of
mines under their feet. Their losses
are estimated at 20,000.
Tbe Russian declares the Russians
held all the eastern forts leading to
Golden bill and the Japanese, shatter -
ed and ezhaueleJ, retiied eattward.
Base Ball.
Pacifio Coast
Portland Tsooma 4
(16 innings.)
Puitl: ml 3
- Lea Angelei Seattle 2, Lcs Angeles
American
Chicago Washington 1, Chicago 6.
. St. Louie Philadelphia 9, St Louis
3.
Detroit New York 2, Detroit 1.
Cleveland Boston 4 Cleveland 1.
THEY VVUL
NOT MERGE.
a repots emulating Irom come
source; wbiob has no fcundaticn what
ever, has baen oalied to our atten
tion to the i Sect that tbe United
Stetru, Und offioe at this place was to
b consolidated with the La Grande
offioe aud established iu Baker City in
tba new federal building to be ereoted
there, says the Burns Times Heiald.
Such a report has no foundation and
we have information that is reliable in
every reaped, that no such work is
ooutempUted by the government.
Then is no occasion tor such a move
in tbe first place, and every reason for
the local land offioe to remain her',
partioulaily at this time . The rec
ords Ol the offioe show that there me
something over 7,100,000 acres of un
appropriated land In this district and
tha ine resent location tl the office
is most convenient and central.
Price of Wheat
The price ot wheat lumped to 60
cents and over ytsterdat and severs!
thousand bushels In Umatilla county
were sod. The selling, although
qu.te Iter, was not so lame in Pendle
tou i.s lu Athena and Adams. M A
Fergnson, editor of tbe Adams Ad.
vanoe, came down last night and said
that fully 2ft, 000 bushels were sold
there yesterday. Koporta from Athena
ar to the effeot that the selling as
very heavy. Tners) ar reports from
the I arm lea dlstriuls of 66 cents beinc
1 n n
WK am- I IEADQUARTI H S
For Kodak and Kodfik Supplies.
A complete stock
answered promptly.
b Grande DruCo. ?ay
FULL
Chain
Wood
128 cubic feet to the . cord. 16-iuch '-. dry ' chain
wood 13 per cord. This is cheaper than ly the load.
You pay Tor what you get aid get what you pay for. .
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Phone 571
Special Excursion to the World's
' v ' Fair.
: The Denver and Rio Grande, In con
nection with the Missouri Pacidu,
will ran a eeries of personally con
ducted excursions to tbe World's fair
during June. . These excursions will
run - through to St. Louis without
obange of cars, making abort stops at
prinoipal points ouroute. Tbe first of
these excursions will leave Portland
June 7, and tbe second June 17. Tbe
rate from I.a Grande 'ill be S60 to 8t.
Louis and return. Excursionists go
ing Aia the Denver k Rio Grande have
tbe privilege of returning by a differ
ent route. This is the moat pleasant
way, aa well as tbe nioe-t delightful
route to cross tbe oontinent. Ihe
stops arranged give an opportunity
of visiting in and abont Kansas City.
If you wish to accompany one of these
, y p, Z
Bleeping car reservations,
The World's Fair Route
I Those anticipating an Eastern trip, or
a vis.t to the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition at St. Louis, cannot afford to
overlook the advantages offered by the
i fdissoesj Pacific Kiilway, which, on
account ot its various routes and gated
Write, .or cull ou w. C. Mrhiide,
Ge"?' al. Ag8"1. l-'4 Ulird at, I'ol linn I
literntnie. ,
if.
Dressmaking
Fiist Class dressmaking at reasonable
prices. Inquire for Mia. Mary Coon,
laie of Soattle, at Mrs Shearers rooms.
THAT TtKED FK1SL1NU
If you are lauquid, depressed and
iucapable for work, st indicates that
your lUer is out of order. Heroine
will assist nature to throw off head
aches, rheumatism aud ailments akin
to aervousoees and restore the energie
anrl vlfalitv nt nnnnH tarn? n.rfoxf haoltK
' J J Hubbard, Temple, Texas, writes,
1 Maron 192: "1 hove used Herbirw
lor the past two years. lt"baR;,done
me more good than all the doctors.
I Vi hen I feol bad and have that tiied
feeling I take a dose of llerbine. It
is the best medioine ever made for
chills and fever." EOcta a bpttle.
Sold by Newlln Drug Co.
Change of
Management.
The undersigned has purchased
the busin so known as the Harris
Cash Meat Market and will here
after conduct the same.
We wish to inform tbe public
that we are prepared to furnish
all kinds of meats, game and
poultry al the very lowest prices
consisiaut with tirst-clas articles
We have our own delivery
and make two trips daily to the
Old Town. . Highest market
price paid for all cuttle, hogs and
sheep. We solicit a share of
your patrouage and guarantee
the very bf at satisfaction.
Phone orders receive prompt
and oareful attention.
Harris meat market across the
track. Phone 1001.
TURNER & WALTER
THE MARKETS
(July 80)
New York Silver 63 5 81'nlon Piciflo
95 5-8,Pfd03 1-2
Cbioaso Hept wheat opened 89 3 8
a 89 5-8 and dosed st 90 1-4 Barley
42 a GO, flax 1.17 1-2, northwestern tl.24
8.i n Kranolsoo Cash wheat tl.87
Portland-Wheat Walla Walla 07
tuuestem ri vauey is. ' v
Cattle Heat steers S3 a (3.25) me
dium (3, cows 92 a t.VJ).
BEST COl'OH MEDICINE FOR
CHILDREN.
When vou buy a congh medicine fur
small children von want one in which
yon ran place implicit confidence, Vou
want one that not only relieves but
cures. Yod want one that is unques
tionably harmless. You want oue that
Is pleasant to take. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy meets all ol these con
ditions. There It nothirf so good for
he -uiighe and oolds Incident to child
ood. For tale by All Druggists. .
of professional paper. ' ) Dates
"!WW-tl-1&3
MEASURE'"""'"'
by Jthe Cord
H. W. NIBlEY ,
Classified Ads
FURNISHED ROOMS Partiei desire
in nicely furnished room a appiv to
. " G D Simmons corner 8 and M uLrefJts
Pasture
Plenty of good pasture il per head
per month, Phone 1276.
FOR SALE Ope tine niiloh oow very
... g?i tie - - - T--..'
. :,' F d Newsom , .
309 U8i reel North ear Shops.
All Kinds of Work ,:.
Wesley Davis does all kinds ol scav
enger work, such as cleaning wells, cess
polls, etc. Give him a call. 4 24 tf
- New Lumber Yard. '
l am now prepared In fill orders ' "
all kinds of lumber. 1, ou need lum
ber see prices before en; luring.
Rosenhanm
Pri.p. Rainbow Htore.
Pianc Instruction.
Firs class instruction on tba piano.-
Harriet E Young.
Phone 1931 July 27.
Wood Saw '
Orders for sawing promptly executed
1'hone 1840. residence on Os born St.
Terms reasonable. (iW Allen.
Sweet Cream
Commencing Thursday June lUthjthe
Grande Konde Creamery Co will be
prepared to furnibh swwet cream in
quanity to suit, whole sale and retail
Remember the place Uuotlngions new
bnilding next dour to fire building,
tf. . -
LOST On the streets of La Grande a
sealed letter from the Brownsville Bank
addressed to O P (ioodall, finder will
please return to post ofllee.
FORE SALIi Good wort teams.
Hhvb one light team. For full par
ticulars, terms and prices address
K IS Vebers R F D No 1 La Qrande
Oregon. J21.
Machinery For Sale
One 20 H r fire box boiler, J I case
One 16 inoh engine same make
One resawine; maolilne '
One rip sawing1 maohine '
One wooden fiamo tenoner
One 6 Im-h sided moulder -nil
in good 'shape. Taken out to in
stall larger plant
Stoddard Lumber oo. La Grande
Dr. T A CHARLTON
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Office at A T Hill's Drug Store
La Urande, Uregon Phone 1361
Residence phone 701
For Sale
One and one fourth aeres near Court
nouse witn a room House will tell both
lawn ana nouse or . either.
J F Bakir.
FOR SALE AND RENT On aoeouiitof
ill health we will lease our forty five
room rooming house, abirh is doing
a good first class business to responsi.
ble pnrties (or a term of years. Will
soil the furniture at reasonable
prices For particulars call on or
address W, H. Fergnson, La Grande,
Oregon. J 18 tf
Congrrtulaiions
Mr John H Cullom,lEditor of the
Garland, Texas, News, Jias written a
letter of congratulations to the manu
facture of Chamberlain's Cough Re
medy, as follows: "Sixteen years ago
when our first child was a baoy be was
subject to croupy spells aud we would
be very uneasy about him. We began
using Chamberlain's CnnoU R.m. i-
I IH87, and linding it such a reliable re-
meny lor euioeanticruip we have never
been wiihout in the honse since that
time. We have five children and have
given It to all of them with good re
suits." For sale by all druggists.
Notice to Contractors :
Sealed bids will be received until 2
o oiock r iu oaturaay August 61004
fur the eoniiructiun of -a two story
frame residence building according to
p Ian and specifications which may lie
vrn ui. tut) rrsiueuce ni airs it Pattv,
or at thj residence ol t) ft Th. ..........
U, A. ; oh I tec;. La Grande, Oregon, at which
1 hide will boojioned. Bidders
inviie iiuuo present, me owner re
serves the right to reject any and all
u'u. Mrs Z Patty.
NIGHT WAS HER TERROR.
'I wcnld cough nearly all nigbt long,"
writes MrsChas Applegale, of Alex
andria, lud., "and could hardly get any
Sleep, 1 had consumption so bad that
If I talked a block I wonld cough
frightfully and spit blood, but wbon
sll other medicines failed, three $1 00
bottles ol lr. King's New Discover
wholly cured me and I gained (18
pounds." Its absolutely guaranteed
to cure Coughs, (.'olds, La Urippa,
bronchitis and all Throat and I nns
troubles. Price 60e and 11.00. - iTial
bottles Ires at Newlin Drug Co.
wholesale prices
aU-wholesale prices Mail .irder
That the way to reach a
man's heart is through his
stomach. Jry it by.,, using
Geddes Bros' canned' fruits,
delicious beraies, lettuce, on
ions, and radishes, just fresh
from the garden. We are
the . first store .the farmers
I call on and of course we get
uie tiioiic oi cverj'iuuig. j
' ;-. We always have the ffsh
est eggs, butter, etc... ;
Special attention' given to
phone ordc. : . .. , ; .
Geddes ' Bros.
MEAT CLHIMS
a large place in the food question, it
is essential therefor that the meat bt
good. Tough, gristly steak, nr - day
juiceless roasts will spoil any meal
Suppose you consult us on
THE MEAT QUESTION'
We know and bar the best kind. You
can rely on our knowledge and our de
sire to hold your trade to get yon tbe
finest meat you ever closed your tvetb
on. As for prices, well we are not so
foolish as to have them high.
Bock & THomas
EarlvR
isers
Tall FAMOUS LITTLE flLlS.
Pr gstok relief from Biliousness,
S&k Headache, Torpid Liver, Jsun
los. Dtsslmss, and all troubles srU
inf from an inactive or sluggish aver,
DsWItt't Utile Early Risers are an
sjaalrssV, ThsyaalBromptlyjsnd never gripe.
Thay are so aalniy that It Is a pleasure
to sake laem. One to two act as a
salU laaattve; two or four aot as a
aleasant aa effective csthartlo. They
are taraly vegeuble and absolutely'
aarsalssa. Thsy tonlo the liver.
SBSfASBD OSLV ST v
B. O. OaWltt a, Co., Cblsan
M By All Druggists
Adp vnii r.niwr. Tit ct i rtic
vw vivsiivi IV Ol. luiiil.l
If so, purchase your ticket via the
KUt.'K ISLAND FRISCO HYs'VKMb.
Choice of routes goinc or returning
via
ST.PAUL. DKNVER, COLORADO
SPRINGS, orPUEflLO.
For rates call on your local Agent.
Dates ol sale: June 16-17-18 July 1-2-3
Aug. 8-9-10 Sept. 5-6-7 Oct. 3-4-6.
For further Information and sleeping :
car reservations call upon or address
A H Mc Donald
. Con'l Agent
140 Third St., Portland, Ore
Otv Scavenger
Vaults, Cesspools . and Wells
Cleaned
All work done by Scavengers
iN."N.Moson
Phono 1841 La Qrande Or.
Of: SPICES.' o
COFFEE.TEA,
BAKING POWDER.
fUVORING EXTRACTS'
AWurirSirik FlMslFInwr.
CL05SET&DZYERS
' PORTLAND, OfftCOK.