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Potatoes. Onions, Root Vegetables
Apples, Hay, Oats, Barley
We pay Highest Market Prices for all
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We are receiving regular thipmentt of fresh eggt which we
are quoting to the trade at $8.25 per case of SO doz.
Fancy white clover honey from California, tweeter than
'. native etock. 24 frame cases at $3.25 per case.
We have a large lot of No. 2 applet which we quote at 40c
per box.
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Muscatel Raisins
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JOS. V. FOLK. THE HI
' Hi THE PUBLIC fit TODAY
A Man Wlio Has NaUe Good His (apaijn Pieces, Is diving
v tlie Great State of Missouri a t fltrcajii
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perhaps, it may be said that he does not
sjem to be of such size and strength as
he will be after ten years mare in the
school of life, and that the kind of a pre
sident he might likely make three years
from now it so much inferior to the pres
ident that they hope and believe he would
make ten or a dozen year from now, that
they dislike to tee him wasted on an
earlier opportunity."
The seventh ton of a seventh ton is
supposed to be endowed with remarkable
qualities. But if William Allen White it
to be entirely credited. Mr. Joseph W.
Folk, governor of Missouri at the age of
thirty-eix, and "one of the half-dozen
real leaders of civic honetty in America
it a teventh ton of a teventh ton and yet
it "a most ordinary young man equipped
with the usual physical , and mental ac
couterment" There it nothing mystical
about him or his success. The only diff-
no special oratorical ability, no peculiar
talent for political organization, no per
sonal magnetism, no campaign fund to
speak of. he closed hit canvasa with a
unanimous nomination in the convention.
It was a most signal triumph for simple.
straightforward honetty and unquestioned
courage. Sayt Mr. White: "A great mor
al itsue wat moving among the people.
That itsue concerned the enforcement or
the annulment of law, and Fo'k drama
tized it His career, and the fight made
erence between him and many another I upon him for that issue, cast him at tlje
young gentleman in Vanity Fair, says Mr. hero, and Amer'cana never fait to applaud
White, it that Folk "hat tense enough to , the hero and hist the villian." Although
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be honest and make it pay." Mr. White
tells the story of Folk't career in hit us
ual vivid style in McOure't for December.
It It a ttimulating and reassuring story.
After he succeeded in getting born, in
Brownsville, Tennesee (hit ancestors on
both tract navuiM i -... -.C .".' "
Revolution), young Joteph got the usual
education of an American boy in an
American country town and finished off
at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, grad
uating with the law class of 1890. After
practicing law a short time in Browns
ville, he went to St Louis, and achieved
hit first prominence at attorney for tome
striking street-car employees. At a re
sult of this prominence, he became the
Democratic nominee for circuit attorney
in St Louis, and wat elected. Then he
began to surprise people. He had told
all hit friends that be would enforce the
laws: but all candidates said .that and
they supposed Folk wat like the rest.. He
surprised them by meaning it . The orat
or who nominated him m the convention
laid the usual stress, for oratorical pur
poses, upon Folk't pledge to enforce the
laws. When Folk afterward put him in
jail for "Doodling," a great many people
taw the joke, but the orator did not tee it,
Ed" Butler, who wat the organizer of
the election thugt" for the Democratic
machine in St Louie, and who dic'.ated
mo t of the nominations, telle hit little
tale of woe at followt, according to Nr.
Whites ; ,- - , I
"It wat like this: I wat going to nomi-
nateaman named Clark good fellow,
and all right, 'a far '' I know, when , in
comet Harry Ha wet to my office one day
an' savs. 'Colonel, how bad do you want
that man Clark?' An' 1 says, 'well I
dunno; I've promised it to him.' 'Well,'
Harnr tav. 'I got S young feller name
Folk I want to have it' That wae Har
ry's wav. He wanted to be a leader.
An', fie knew he could n't beat me fair;
to he done it the other way. 1 says, 'well,
I'll tee Clark and tee what he tayt.' And
I teen him and he tays he didn't need the
office particularly, and I, tayt, 'well, if
you don't, Harry HawetV got a young
feller name Folk thafe been attorney for
the Union labor fellers and tattled up
their ttrike for 'em. and Harry kind o
wantt to name him.' and to the next time
1 teen Harry I tayt, 'bring your little man
around,' and he done it and 1 looked him
over,' and there didn't . teem to be any
thing the matter of him, to. I sayt all
right and he wat nominated. An' look
what he done tpent four yeart tryin' to
put me in the penitentiary that t the
kind of a man Harry Hawet it. He'e a
leader now, and I'm out An' that's how
he done it"
Mr. Folk began operations by securing
the indictments of a number of election
thlevet, most of whom had worked for
hit own election. Then he started in on
boodling counciimen. "Within three yeart
Folk uncovered in St Louis more cor
ruption than had ever been uncovered at
one time and place in the civilized world."
Prior to that not an indictment had ever
been secured in Missouri against a public
official for "boodling." Folk, in four yeart
time, . brought forty cases, convicted
twenty of the accused, and though- the
state eupreme court ordered the release
of twelve of them on technicalities, the re
maining eight are now ttrving time in the
penitentiary. ; All sorts of efforts to atop
him and to entrap him were made. Court
esans were set upon him. He wat
threatened witn assassination, it was
said by (he corruptionistt that at toon at
hit term of office wat ended they would
make it impossible for him to live in Miss
ouri. This last threat was to often re-
(mm GOVERNOR
Ex-Governor T. T. Goer hat annouced
hie candidacy for the governorship before
the Republican primaries.
TO THE (HIDREIt
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The children can write their letters to
Santa Claut an J mail, them at Newlin
Drug Co.'e store. '
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Sometimev a flaming city is saved by
dynamiting a space that the fire can't
cross. Sometimes, a cough hangs on so
long, you feel as if nothing but dynamite
would cure it Z. T. Gray, of Calhoun
Ga writes: "My wife had a very ag
gravated cough, 'vch kept her awake
nights. Two physicians could not help
her; so she took Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds, which eased her cough, gave (her
sleep, and finally cured her." Strictly
scientific cure for bronchitis and L
Grippe, for tale by Newlin Drug Co
Price 60c and $1.00; guaranteed. Tria
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the children to mail their letters to him.
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on election day all the other Democrat c
candidates on the state ticket were de
feated by about 16,000 plurality. Folk
wat elected by 50,000 plurality, running
6000 ahead of Rootevelt
At governor. Folk, we are assured, is
nnt ut.tino- down." In spite of great leg
al difficulties, he hat effectually put a i
stop to race track gambling in St Louis.
He hat enforced the laws againtt telling
liquor on Sundays, to that "the hotel bare
and all drinking placet are dosed an Sun
day in the first-class citiet of Missouri
for the first time in the history of tht
state." He has sesured -any number of
sadly needed laws relating to railroadt,
while vetoing bills , that were manifestly
unjust to the roads and detgned as
strikes." . And at a result of it all, the
value of land in Missouri since Folk began
operation! hat Increased twenty per cent
the annual immigration hat Inoreated
twenty-five per cent the Sunday business
of the local street-cart has increased
twenty-five per cent the Monday deposits
in the savings banks "have increased re
markably," and the number of arrettt in
the three citiet where statistics are avail
able h;s decreased twenty per cent, tnd
the Sunday arrettt have diminished forty
per cent
So much for what Folk hat done. At
for the man himtelf, Mr. White givee ut
this discription:
"He it a smallish man In stature, being
a trifle lett than five feet seven in heigh',
but tome day he will be stout He it of
the sack-coat size and build and temper:
ment at Roosevelt itbut finding him
telf a public man, he dresses the part in
what we of the West call a Prince Albert
coat a garment which seems to give citi
zens confidence in their officials. And
leadt one in to the core of the man's char
acter caution.' If the word 4oxy c?uld
be knighted Into polite diction, it might be
applied to Joseph W. Folk. For, though
intrigue-it foreign to hit nature, and
though he never walks on hit toes, and
hat no stomach for thamt and pretenses,
every step he takes it taken with direc
tion; every word he tayt it weighed care
fully though hardly painfully at a ttupid
man's words are doled out to cover hie
ignorance; and every act public or pri
vate, . which may have the leaet signifi
cance upon those who witness it is
measured by eome wise rule. Hence the
Prince Albert coat; hence his abstinence;
hence hit unruffled front; hence the con
ventionality of hit daily walk. Nor it thit
veneer. It comes from his heart. Fear
ing the effect on young men who might
see him smoking, Folk hat given up hit
cigar and pipe. He it at modest as a girl,
and yet he it worldly-wise enough to
know the force of the example of a public
man,'' and he willingly sacrifices his com
fort that he may not violate this trivial
obligation to the people. , Hit language is
as clean as a woman's, and it comes from
a carefully weeded heart Add to the
picture of a frock-coated, smooth-faced,
clear-eyed, thy-mannered, self-deprecating
young man, a black toft hat and a
boyish smile playing elusively over a
countenance regular and oval, and it
needs but a few touches to make it live."
He it. furthermore, "deeply pious, with
out being in the least sanctimonious and
without any cant" He ie "rigid in his
observance of conventionalities," though
not in the least punctilious about formali
ties. He it goodnatured and genial, but
never humorous, . sarcastic or flippant
His dominant passion is public service,
but be "seems to have no confidante, no
advisers, no board of strategy." His
honesty seems to Mr. White the result of
a deliberate conviction, of faith or creed,
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peated that he concluded that hie onhr 1 that honesty is the best policy. Intellect-
chance of safety' lay in completing the I ually he is not yet at big at.he is morally;
work he had begun and totally destroying
the power of the corrupt forces. And to
he became a candidate for the guberna
torial nomination. He made a whirlwind
campaign of the state." Every member
of the State central committee of hit
but he it growing. He ie not a perton of
broad and catholic culture. The effort to
make him a presidential candidate is de
precated by Mr: White, who asserts that
not Folk's bett friends but his most un
swerving enemies are those who talk the
party the Democratic wat against! loudest about him as a candidate for Pre-
him. So wat the state administration sident in 1 908. "To many of those who
and all the politicians of note. And ' "an know him best and admire him- most hs
unlimited campaign fund" was subscribed does not yet seem to be of size or of
to defeat him. With no social prestige, ttrength for presidential timber; or better,
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I Dec. loth to Jan. 1st !
You' all know the sure, easy and quick road to commer
cial ruin is to leave your goods in the show cases and'
on the shelf. We don't propose to be caught on this
road. People have ask us how we expected to sell our,
enormous stock in La Grande We proved to them that
our prices are the lowest and our stock of the best
quality. They bought and have told their friends, and
we get "their, business. Our prices sell our goods. .. We
have had a 'very busy month,' but we must ; sell more
goods, which is our reason for ; cutting prices. We
need the money and you will be the,one to profit.
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WILL REALIZE AND APPRECIATE THE
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Remember we reserve no goods
Watches and Diamonds
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Largest stock in Eastern Oregon and our
Prices are now lower than catalogue houses
Our store will be open "till"
10 p. m. until December 25
Repair work given prompt
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