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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1905)
p Li m 1 1 HELP WANTED Wanted 25 Salesladies " " " Wanted 10 Salesmen Wanted 15 Cash Boys ' Wanted 4 Bundle Wrappers Apply at onoe at Fair Department Store WHY NOT INVESTIGATE Nice Cosy Five Room Brick Dwelling jaat building, will be completed 8eptl5th All modern conveniences, Eaiy Distance from Business District, Bcboola Churches and Oonrt House. Will make the price, and terms very rea aonnble. . ' ' ALSO THESE WILL PAY YOU TO LOOK AT Five Room Modern Cottage nearly new, nicely located, and we know price and terms wilt aait ' - Five Room Cott9ge in nice part of town, at a. very rea sonable price. . ' You cannot afford to pay rent, when with a small amount of money to pay down and monthly payments about the same as rent you can soon own your home. We have started many on the right road, letua start you. Will build you a house according to your own plans. Will loan von mono n " r""''t. Jua Srando investment Col Foley Hotel Building La Grande, Oregon IRON BEDS Sanitary Steel folding Couches and Sprints direct from the factory at lowest possible prices FOR CASH Iron Beds,. .regular $3.60 now 13.65 Steel Coil Spring .regular 8.50 now 2.25 Sanitary Steel Couches regular 14.60 now 8.00 Hard maple frame, woven springs,. . 8.00 now 1 95 Hard maple frame, woven eota. . . . . . 2.75 now 1.75 Linoleum, only 60c per yar I Home furnishing Bargains F. D.HAISTEN, Phone Red1161 Highest Prices Paid for Second Hand Goods SACKS ON HAND Wc have part of a car of Calcutta Sacks which we quota at $5 50 a hundred We have another carload of extra fancy Payette Water-; melons, which are on sale at the leading Groceries.' We have secured a large Government contract and arc In a position to handle all the first calss Timothy Hay you have to offer. We also are buying Grain. OREGON PRODUCE CO. PANAMA CANAL VS. IRRIGATION Washington. Sept. U Tha Panama eaaaj U eonrwded to ba lb giant an- darUkiaf of the at. projaot apoa which Um Fraocal bar lailad, ths Unlud Bute will now take bold and ball. Wa will oooatmct tbe Panama oanal bsyoml a parad vantara of a doubt nod it will becoma tba neatest and moat Important waterway in tba world with untold poaslbllitisa to commerca and tba strategy ot potaiMa warfare. What will it coat and wban will It be completed r Engineer! predict ia 1 ot 15 yean and aatimata an eipendl tore of two handred million dollars. Vat it will be obeerved Ibat tba word ing of tbeaa aaUmatea la provisional and qualified both aa to tba amount of treatore nseaaaarjr for tba work and aa to the time ot completion. But while this great American work la going on, or rather Ha preliminary sarvcrs and axcav atlons, Uncle Bam la doing another engineering work wblob promieea even greater retalta tbaa the Panama canal. Tba troth of thia Le oomaa manlfeat to the moat aotblnk- ing apon a little reflection. Tbe go aramant haa now under consideration one ia already oom plated ae Ten great Irrigation projecta in tba weat lnvolTing the reclamation of aome million and a quarter orat ot deaert land, at a coet of about thirty million dollar. A half dosen more ar in tba eourie ol aarrey and oommenoement of work. "'- v . Th fund for thia work It constantly ffrawin from K tale of public lands; : moreover aa very dsllar sieiided by tba govern mant moat be returned to th fond by th eettUriUking tba land, th fond become a revolving on and la oapa ble ot nee over and over again for building new worka . ' It la officially Mtlmated that there are over 70,000,000 acre ol irrigable land In th weat and It la admitted that an Intensively cultivated irrigat ed agricultural community will eup port a population of one perton to the acre, which would people the western half ot tba United Stataa with nearly tba present population of th entire aonntry. , Th eost ot thia great work would amount to two billion dollars a work th vastest aver enured. Into b7 any eonntry In any time, yet costing tba government not one dollar, lor every dam and every canal . constructed Is paid tor by eager aettlera who flook apon th rich, Irrigated deaert lands. : GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL Taft in Japan - Bcrlpns Nana Association Nagaaka, Sept. U. Tba Taft party art! red today on the steamer Korea aed will depart tomorrow morning at day break. TRY TO RAISE O.R& N. TAXES Baker, Sept. 10 The Baker county board of equalisation at Its session Saturday considered very thoroughly every pnasa presented tn tbe question ot increasing the asaeotment of the . O. ft. & N. which haa been made a! matter of agitation along the route oi i that railroad. ' J. W. Morrow the tai ! agent, bad gone into tba matter from tba viewpoint of tbe railroad" company, wlthoot even ao much as offering a suggest I oo, that anything which they might consider axhorbitant would re salt In litigation which would tie up th payment of any railroad taxes for aerm of yeara. Ibis contingency wsa 1 considered, however, by the board In I an informal way, aa were also tbe ' figures presented In the report ' ot tbe . Citizens' League committee. That a! rait of $1000 per mile apon the road bed ol the corporation would be mutal ly eatlsfaoU-ry and result in tax pay ments promptly waa th concensus ot opinion among the members of tbe board and this waa the flual official action taken. The easeauneot of tbe ' rolling stock at S375 per mile and ot G7S per mile tor improvements and : realty waa permitted to retaiu as it was th year previous. Thia now makes the O. R. it N. assessment! $7660 per mile In Baker oounty. I Th matter of adjudioatlng tba aa- seeament ot th Bompter valley Ry., j went over for formal action at the, session on next Tuesday. i FLEECED BLANKETS Plain, Plaid and Striped. Large, warm and Convertible School Stationery, Book Straps, School Caps, Milliner and Veilings. E M WELLMAN & OO La Q-rande , - Oregon . Ait.. '-. - i mitiiipucu ouiciue Lewistoo, Ida , Sept.' 11. Buffering from heart failure and permanent in- Juries received In a railroad wrack four yeara ago, David Shaw made a sensa tional attempt to sutoide by drownlrg at 7:30 o'clock Friday night. Bhaw went to the Lewlston-Ularkston br dge over tbe Snake river and left a poc ket- book at tbe toll offlo for hla wife, who he said would call. The bridge tender opened tbe book and found . a not to bis wife which read: I am tired of life and will' end all by drowning In the Buake river." Xh bridge tender started In pursuit of Bbaw and auccee led In grasping tbe man as. be aa climbing over the bridge rail. The would-be suicide mad a desperate attempt to free him self from tbe bridge tender, but toon eol lapsed from an attack ot heart troub la and was turned over to tbe polioe Bhaw came to Lewlaton with his wife and six children from La Grande last June. Be baa been In poor health and nnabla to work muoh of the time. After recovering from hie swoon last night, be told the polioe that be would finish the Job In a few daya. CARPETS CARPETS The largest line of Carpets ever brought to the city. More arriving daily. Pretty floor coverings, 25c a yard and up. SPECIAL ON GO CARTS THIS MONTH W. H. BOHNENKAlYtP, Hardware and Furniture WATCHES? Yes, of course we have watches, the very best watches made . We alio have Clocks, sod every thing in the Jewelry line J. 11. PEARE. Old Jewelry nude to look Ilk new Repair work given prompt Olooka taken car of attention. MlaaJEditb.Willla left this morning for Walla Walla to resume her studies at Whitman college. liSa CITY BREWERY JULIUS ROESCH," Proprietor. Largest Brewing Plant in Eastern Oregon Ask for La Grande Beer and get the Best LA GRANDE BEER IS MADE IN LA GRANDE Sri- ...aM NO POISON No Spoiled Fruit By using Economy Jars there is no danger from Zinc Poison, the fruit being ' A Inavacum, will .keep for ever. t. These Jars are to be had at BAKER BROS. Phone Main 29 i WE BUY Doors Sash Shingles , and Lumber In large quantities direct from factories and mills at a yearly contract price, and while we pay the lowest price, we Ret the best goods, and can afford to sell at figures that others bay for, thereby giv ing oar customers the benefit of wholesale puces i I If? I ra IS i WE BOUGHT CHEAP fOR CASH A fine Lot of X Wall Paper Selling the Same Way Cheap 10c per Roll and up STANIELS L JARMAN. Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators. X vj i'sm m zu wsw mzsw sstf wcM?'i LOUIS LIVERY AND FEED STABLE f LARSEN & NORRIE, Props. 9) ,V-v..iiV''':'-'-.. - First cluaa turnouts far--'t?"X"''f'5'' nished day or night. - ''r.... y'. ' .' r& a 8,1 ' -ji; Beet service guaranteed (4 &MJ Horse, bosrded by day, 5 - I V T'lP 3wsi . SSTAASP tAnl li aai ayi J. Rigs furnished for parties, funerals and picnics. The best carryall in the city. C LA uKANUt IKON WUKro Complete Machine! Shops and Foundry t t " -.83 wmm wa a . vtr lir . . lir t Kr Aw O ueneral macKsmitn. uorse noein2:ana wagon won. r- fjj Manufacturer of The Fitzgerald Uoller Feed Mill J STODDARD LUMBER CO. I D. FITZI3 ERALD, Kl . HOHRIETOr AND SHOULD HAVE THr 1-kEFERENCE wmm III flt tiaaaaillliilii .... y.