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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1906)
TSt 'in VLOi; 1NUW YOU SHOULD STOP AMD CONSIDER THIS IS A HOME ENTERPRISE Aurelia Mining Company stock is selling fast. Manager reports a good strike in the west drift Work progressing nicely at the property.' We have some stock for sale yet at 5c per share, but at the present rate 5c stock- will soon be gone. Those that may want some stock, better buy during January, as the price will be advanced to 7 cents on February 1st 1906 You can buy stock, pay one-fifth down and t ; one-fifth per month until paid. If you are a little j ; short of money take some stock anyway, no 2 matter how little, all will help to develope the J enterprise. '; J. A. THRONSON. Holiday j Never was a better time to get full value for your money than now. Evervtnini in the line of Holiday Groceries. X NEBRASKA GROCERY I I MRS. MAGGIE SHEARER, Prop. . : LA GRANDE IRON WORKS i D. FITZGERALD. Cmplete Machine Shops and Foundry General Blacksmiths, We manufacture The Fitzgerald Roller Feed , Mill., tlie best and cheapest mill on the market Our shops are equipped with machinery to handle any sized work, nothing too large or nothing to small. Highest prices paid for old Iron. SPECIAL SALE ON 'LL HOLIDAY '''' . "., I GnODS 1 I have a few heating stoves left, both coal and wood, which I will close out at greatly reduced prices. - W. H. : BOHNENKAM P, IN A I1UKRY? THFNttALL' Wfl. HEThOLDS THE TRANSFER MAN He will take that trunk to the De pot or your home in less time than it takes to tell it. Day phone Red 761 Night phone Black 1792 Wagoa always at your, service OeWitt atfeWitt U the nm to look for whe - k..- Uii(-k Umrmt atV6. Witt's Witch Html Salve is th. Oritinl 0"lT mlin. In IkX DeWIU'ilt In. only Witch Hul Slr. tlut Is nude Iron ths ttinAiiteraUa Witch-Hazel AD other ar counterf ett bae 1ml ttkti cheap anal worth km even ZJiiul Se Wltt l Witch Hu.IS.hr. It a mclfle fw Pllet: Blind, Bleodlnf.. ItchinctMProlnidlnc Pike.. AlioCun, Burnt, Brunei. Sprain LaMraMom. SALVE niMUS f LCDeWltUCo., Chic. A. T. HILL, Druggists 4k : t I... Groceries V Proprietor. - G. E. FOWLLR Truck and Transfer Wood and Coal PHONE 1611 All orders given prompt attention a aii oraers given prompt attention Practical Gunsmith Repairs Strictly Fi-stclass Guns restocked Keys fitted to door Lorks WM. AGNEW Adams Am ae . . STRAYED There'is at my place red at ter between one and .two years old. branded 1 1 on rictit hip. swallow fork on right and swallow bit on left ear. O. W. Bartimess, on Rock Creek. (. H: HEIR COMMITS I SUICIDE New York. Jan. 8. Charles M. Meir. formerly a trusted employe of a San Francisco wine merchant commited sui cide this mqrning while pn board the liner Uarmantia. Meir was wanted in San Francisco charted with embezzlement of twenty thousand dollars. He was arrest ed in Liverpool, November 8, 190S and the state department ordered extradiction. He was being brought home to face - the charges in custody of Detect ve Reynolds, who had been sent to London, for him when he killed himself. The act of self destruction took place just as the ship was entering the port -AVALRY MOUNT tU ON CXENJ Horse, in the Native Militia, Char--' with heads lowered Is part if the c . of the oxen cavalry, and at 'xctting part, too, for, the onlooker i nirty, mnurted natives mounted on their oxen stand at atvntion some bun- tired feet a, t from 30 more natives similarly mounted. At the Ktven slu ml. says Gion Fline In the Twhnli' World, they rush at each other, the oxen wltu their heads lowered ' ready ; to strike, the natives with their spears rasped firmly and eyes fixed on the on coming "foe." Thev Mime to a midde- halt when about three feet apart, whet I right-about-face and make ready for th second 'riarge. To t etching It. seems as though me two corps must of a certainty g rasning Into each other, and this I what sometimes does happen In th . ;arly drills. These accidents never r tult In serious mishaps, however. a 1 imld great yelling of natives, soundln oucies. snortlBE and stamnlne : i en the cavalry Is always hroucht hi mo position ana oraer la once ' mou wrought out of rhaos. . - ; The oxen are neither alnw nnraWnti 'rightened and th6y have proved most intelligent, learning their part i ant iial life with remarkable rapidity aklng to It as naturally as a n . a eteran charger. They are pov.e- -easts and possess great fortln ' jnduiance. Lacking fear lu U-. dvanclng with great speed upon an .v. jsing army, their horna pointing vard. they would crcto m.t i among norse cavalry. WORK OF THEIMAw'.' 7li'. Story of How It Spolle' a' Feast for a ComiJ ri ' , Slnera. . "Speaking about the imajrlnai -ontrolling ones appetite." riu h he waiter In the Forty-secoud . hop house, relates the New Vol lobe, "reminds me of a lltt!e tnr cnl thit occurred down here tf ther ei-enincr. A party of s.x f ne of tij thter came In and !cre1 a sort crab supper. Wbeii tl ueer looking objects cam our. ua i : :ly mounted on brown tr.aat. the o? -f ber;an to ut up the rich Haws hi 'at hem. with n rellBh. I guess ih vould have consumed them all, ar. Iled for more, hid there not b"en oker along. This Joker speared o f the crabs with his fork and holts rig it aloft said, with a twinkle li a is eye: (" 'Gee. I have to shut my eyca mhe. t eat soft cral.s.' "'Why so?" asked one of his com p.ons. Because they look so much liki "rled spiders ; Then tha others noticed the iig simHi-lty between a Kift'r-'- ;ud a apldo' nd lost the'.r appetite..' SHE WHO HESITATES LOSEC Thr fMrl Who Is Slow to Dedd. TJpoi Proposal of Kirrlntrs Some timet Gets Left Wtw m a PhlledelDhte nr' who h learned that so far as a t.ro a.i is coi rerned ho or eh who hesitates is los Aav ne Phlladclnhla Record. A ver eligible and estimable young man ha long been making It evident that bis at tenlions to btr were serious, and th ther evening be made a Iprmal dot aratinn. She could not even nut tut ard tha orthodox ruse aLout the sun Jennrs. of the t rofwal. Blng of a rathef vaclllaflnsr turn r mind, she said she could not give him derided answer. "I l. not at all r. that I love you." the girl declared; "ye must rive me time to think about It ' Considerably taken abu t bv what h rons.dered hor lark of decUlon of chn cier the young man jf"reed to wall eek for her 3oa! derision. (' So the wooed but not t won fra'df : ent to her bed that ni-! i ponder eply. About U o'clock fhe was awa ed to rrr.v trlevratn whifh re-! ' mt need not mind about dei iinn ib, ; latter until next neel rve touuu i' ;irl who said 'ym' u - ,l" ", . . KOUOfliOROR I At the close of the school month of January. February 2d. and at the close of each school month thereafter, an honor roll will be published consisting of two pupils from each grade. The first honor on this roll will be determined as follows the pupil must be present every day of the month, not tardy once, highest grade in deportment and highest in scholarship. The second honor will have the above qualifications except that he will be second in scholarship. This will not fav or the bright enes necessarily as often the brightest will be tardy or absent which will render them not eligible to the honor roll, and thus the others will come Into line for the honor.- Watch for this roll on Feb. 6. MAT UYt WO YEARS Th. chances for living a full century are excellent in the case of Mrs. Jennie Dun can, of Haynesvilla. Me., now ?0 years old. She writes: "Electric Bitters cured me of Chronic Dyspepsia of SO years standing, and made me feel as well and strong as a young girl." Electric Bitters cure Stomach and Liver diseases. Blood disorders. General Debility and bodily weakness. Sold on a guarantee at Nswlih Druo Co.'s drug store. Price only 60. WOULD REMAIN TERRITORY Arisona Proteata Vigorously Aralna - th. Plan to OnmMiu w4k - , Hew Msxloo. The annual report of the governor ol Arizona, to the secretary of the tnterloi says the territorial population has in creased until It Is now between 16fi,C(K and 170,000. ;Th. report expresses a desire on th part of the people of Arlsona for state -hood, but says that "finding themielu confronted with a plan . to unite the;' territory with New Mexico, the peop t Arlsona have protested vlgorousl: and will continue to do so until th( have defeated this repugnant schen i They would desire that their common wealth remain a territory Indefinite rather than to be Joined with New liex Ico." Th. governor adds his belief that t merger would not, be acceptable to tn mass of the people of either territory. The report says the floating Indebted ness of Arlsona, which on June 80, 19 -was 192.341, has been wiped out and . balance of (20,894 remained In the r era! fund at the close of the last li . year. The taxable property in the tr rltory has gained (1.981.606 during t year. Th. total taxable property the varlohs counties Is $45,009 645. But' staritlal progress In other directions I reported. . HORSE IS DYJMO OF CRIEF Philadelphia Anlmrl Has Lost All In terest in Life since His Mas ter's Death. "Old Monk," a patrol hors. of th Twentieth and FeJeral streets atatioi II Philadelphia, la dying with grl over the loss of his master, Jan: Thornton. If ever a horse mourn ibe loss of a friend, that horse . Monk. The men around the stab have noticed the actions of the o; horse aluce Thornton's death, over month ago, and claim that he has al solulely lost all s.gus of Interest I life. He will hardly eat and ca,.noi l persuaded or driven Into ; doing ai , kind of work. "W. are careful of the old fellow.' axld one of the patiol crew. "We k.i bim hardly any work at all to do, ( we Ilk. the old burse. 1 tell vo n body could ill-treu such a good ho ar he la, but be certainly did love Jimmlo. "MonV raps on th. floor of his st- every morning at the exau b.. ; Ihornton died. He never was a 1, horse, but now he Is so languid I:, he doesn't want to work or si ep l eat" Many believe the old horse Is dvlnc of a broaeu faeart LOYAL INDIANS CET CASK Government Pays Patriotic Creeka fo: Prouerty Lost While Fight ing; for Vorth. After more than 40 years of waltlrr for the payment of the money of tl.. "loyal Creek" claim, citizens of thi Creek Nation who Inst pruerty curlni the civil war while they were fijhtli i with the northern army, or their helrt began to receive sunu lrom the toveru ment ranslna trum a Itw ceuii u. to several thousand dollars. Th. amount dlitributed to rlalmanV In MusKuke. I. T.. was 112. Bun. 1 h blghe't amount received by an India was Z2Ub b!. wnich was paid to Mooaei na Harkey. a full-blood, living at Tulns I. T. There were eight claimants wli drew sums over H.OOO. and the rn'nlj eat check paid out was for Ave dollars. ' Oirl la Master Marine. Havinc oaasnd an eximlnailnn h- fore tb. local United States sleamsli. Inspectors, Miss Jane Morgan, diu'l ter of Randall Morgan, of Phil 'do phla. Is now entitled to rnnk as a "ma ter mariner" and comnlacd ber father' ateam yacht Vyaturus. Her llmn- reads "for all ocean," and ah. v,uj command an oeeaa liner as well. Tha Church M.litant ' , In Jersey City Rev. Mr. RcuMr gaged a saloonkeeper and former cr.ai. pton pugilist to tcicn boxing to mep bers of the Buiiday school. . Cod. It' ' come handy, says the New York Ttl . cram. Faith and works nm-hi n . hand In hand, or band In glove, raiht: STODDARD Sash and Doors V Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. All Gooc' Material conus from our Yard FOR WINTER WASHING . Our new machinery and additional help will enable us to do'fami washing CHEAPER. QUICKER and feETTER than you can do it lly yourself. We call for and deliver w .u wui. uive us a trial and ysu willnotbe Bothered" through the winter with family washing. ,. : ; . , v . A. rV STEAM HONE La Grvnle, La QranJc ESTABLISHED"! 887 Capital Stock, Surplus and undivided profits $160,03000 j Deposits , i . ... 640,00000 . OFFICERS AND DlftBCTORS GEORGE PALMER, Prhsidknt. ; f: Ul M. BERRY, Vict PrksibertJ ". F. L. MEYERS. Cashier. GEORGE L CLEAVER, Assistant. Cashier. '". i ' . ' W. L BRENHOLTS, Assistant Cashier. J. M. BERRY. F. M. BYRK1T. ( A.' B. CONLEY, , . t,,C, C. PENINQTON, ' F. J. HOLMES. . The Good Old Standby. Nothing like a nice cut of juicy corned beef with cabbage or saeur-kraut once in a while! We can offer most of the time whole or half rounds, if you can use so much, or whatever quantity you require, of well fed and carefully corn ed beef-tender, "tasly" and wholesome. If you're in tha notion today, 'phone us th. order and we'll have the meat around in no time. i Grandy& Russell WOOD SAW I Your wood sawed with steam 2 saw at 40 cants a cord, if you haaa ten cord or over, under . . ten cord only 60 cents per J cord. I come when I promise . and satisfaction gusranteed . DROP ME A POSTAL I J. S. VANDORf Y, : FOR SALE8 year old jersey bull, for particulars enquire of J. W.. McAlitter or of th. farm of Mrs. Lindsay, north of Island City. LUABER CO. , your laundry quickly and make special- I B.c. " , LAUNDRY Main 7 ,Orejjcn. National, Banlj i : IS a fine art unless you can trust youi butcher. It will b. worth om whije to give us a trial order if you art? looking for a thoroughly "rel'able market where you can be sure of finding a pleas-' ing variety of first-class meat and poultr We can surely interest 'you with out prices. . i lfahr& Company Notice Notice is hereby given that the partner; shipexisting between J. A. Clarity & Beij Brown known under tha firm name a. J. A. Garity & Company has been, dis.' solved. All parties knowing themtelve indebted to the above named firm wi please call at their oflice andsettl befor January 1st, 1906, as all accounts muj be settled by that time. I , J. A.Oamr Sen pnow Centennial Hotel Under new management . f Board and Room $8 per week, cat Meals 28 eta. Special ' rates fnmir.1 Monthly patrons. , No. M17 AcUms A Phone No. 1161. Mr s. W. E. Murchison, proptietrew "T i