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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1906)
a 4 44A4AAHttf tfff f ,w yrr V t C a INVE5 D!,JT, you snouLu Mnf THIS IS A 'd MC STOP AND CONSIDER 0ME ENTERPRISE . AureVia Mining Gcliah Manager reports ?ot3mpany. stock is selling fast .Work progressing e strike in the west drift r u J nicely 'at the property. We have soirEST ' 3 share but at tty -"e stock for sale yet at 5c per "be gone. Thed ne Present rate Sc stock will soon better buy dufyr!'?56 tnat maY wan pome ' stock" advanced to ffing January, as the price will be .irasA cents on February 1st 1906 You can t, j one-fifth pei-vy stock, pay one-fifth down and short of 5?r montn until Paid- If you are a little matter V money take some stock anyway, no y enter f ' I . W WaAAA.a a . . . . : ' ' : ! Hnlidvlvrncpripc; J Never was a better time to get MI value for your money than now. Everything im the line of , Holiday Groceries. 3 NEBRASKA MRS. MAGGIE LA GRANDE IRON WORKS D FITZGERALD, Proprietor. , . Complete Machine Shops and Foundry . uenerai tsiacusmitns, we manufacture lhe Fitzgerald Holler r eed s t Mill., the 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 'LU HOLIDAY GODS I have a few heating stoves left, both coal and wood, which I will close out at. greatly reduced prices. 1 : ' W. H. B O H rdN"l HURRY? fWH. , REYNOLDS 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 1 792 Wagon always at your service ,. tlGHTNINCOUEGnON : i AGENCY 5 u H A. Watson, Mgr. J a All claims placed in our hands I be paid direct to the creditor. a J ' Our system gets the money. , y . Full particulars made known upon J j 2 application to interested parties. ir a .Office up-stairs in Ralston building J ? La Grande. Or. Service ' This drug store trios to vrvs every customer so well that thay will not tnink Of going elsewhere for drug wri .mIs. A. T. Hill, Prescription DrugStis NOW neip to aeveiope the J. A. THRONSON. j w v a x sw GROCERY SHEARER, Prop. : V N E N K A M P, G. E. FOWLER Truck and . Transfer -Wood and Coal 5 PHONE 1611 All orders given prompt attention ' Practical Gunsmith Repairs Strictly Fi'stclass Willis rc-stock-d ''i Keys fitttd to door Iix Ya WM. AGNEW Adams w Success is stamped on every package. It is the most successful remedy known. It makes you well and keeps you well. That's what Kollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does. 36 cents. Tea or Tablets. Newlin Drug Company. IWll Milwaukee. Jan. 10. From advance sheets of the official Catholic directory published in Milwaukee, it is found' that the total Roman Catholic : population of the United States is 1S.6S1.944.1 an In crease of 189.151 over the previous year. The total number of Catholic priests, in cluding seculars and regulars, is ' 14,484, an increase of 627. ' The total number of Catholic churches is 1 1.814, an I increase of 427 over the previous:, year. The number of children attending 'Catholic parochial schools has increased 1,066,207 an increase of alrnost 56,000. WAUOWVSHIljsffrHOGS Lostine, Or. Jan. 1 0. On advice from one of the local hog buyers,1 thai farmers of this and outlying "district drove their surplus hogs to Wallowa' Monday to. be shipped to-outside ' markets.'! George Chandler was; the receiver. 'The price paid is not so high as that received earlier in the season, but as yet leaves a good profit to the raiser. It is generally held that at this season of the year! there is small probability of loss in transit - . THOMAS LAWSON WILL HELP ' Boston. Jan. 8. "When 1 am Invited to go to New York to testify m' the . Stand ard Oil hearing I shall accept," said Thomas W. Lawson tonight when the re mark made by Attorney General Had ley was mentioned to him. "I hive 'not been advised in the matter yet. but if the at torney general desire m to jtestify, I shall be pleased to do so. I feel like helping him in every way I can." -SMITH Vi WHITE Baker City Jan. ' 1 oU-Former Stat Senator William Smith this morning filed his petition as Democratic candidate ' for nomination and election to : the' office - of circuit judge ef this district ' Senator Smith filed copies of his -petition with both Secretary of Stabs Dunbar and County Clerk Coombs, stating that there was a question as to whic it should be filed with. He ha alsd asked Secre tary Dunbar for an opinion on the matters WHEH. IS A SUCCESS A satisfactory test of the new irriga tion wheel invented by J. S. Mathews of this city, has just been made in! the Des Chutes river, near the mouth of. that stream. " .... The wheel made by Mr. Matthews some time ago has been placed, in the Des Chutes river, where a pump was at tached and it worked succesafuly in every way. The wheel floats in shallow water and can be anchored in a stream of any depth- and mad to operate a pump or otiier-machinery. , Mr. Mathews feels sure that it will be highly successt'cl in lifting water from running stream for irrigation "i purposes and will manufacture a number for this purpose. East Oregonian. rOKLT 64 (HINAMEN ENTER , i Victoria, B. C. Jan. 1 0. During the past year but 64 Chinamen entered Can ada, all being ' former residents. None paid the poll tax or $500, although two steamship companies which allowed Chi nese to escape - were mulcted out of $1000. ; ' INDIANS REVOLT New York, JanTTO. A dispatch to the Herald from Panama says the San Bias Indians, numbering 30.000 'and inhabit ing a strip of 100 miles along the lower Atlantic coast of Panama, have seceded from Panama and renewed their alleg iance to Colombia. The revolt against Panama is said to have been fomented by Colombians. As these-Indians,' who in habit the most-fertile part of the coast of Panama, hay never been conquered or subjected, the matter of Winging them back under Panama's flag may prove serious. "Death waa fast approaching." writes Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa. Fla de scribing his fearful race with death, "as a result of liver trouble and heart dis ease, which had robbed m of sleep and of all interest in life. 1 had tried many dif ferent doctors and several medicines, but got no benefit until I began to. us Elec tric bitters. So wonderful was their ef fect that in three days I felt like a new man. and today I am cured of all my troubles." Guaranteed at NewlinV Drug ." ANNUAL . MEETWO ' ' The annual meeting of the stock hold ers of the Oregon, Montana' Development Company will be held in th city of La Grande, Oregon, on Friday January 26, 1 908, at 1 o'clock p. m.( for the purpose cf electing officers and board of directors and for the transaction of any other bus iness that may come before said meeting. , W. W. Rahdalu Pres. ' ' ' E. A. Wills. See., Pro. tern. , PRESIDENT HARPER DIES : , (Sorlpp News Association) President Harper took suddenly worse this afternoon and the expected came to release him from ; his ' intense suffering, Death was caused by a cancer which was discovered nearly on year ago while he was being operated upon for appendicitis. The affairs of th University of which he was president for the present at' least will go on as it has been during his inter est under the direction of Dean Judson. ai NEW PIPE UKE (Scrlppe News Association) .Washington, D. C Jan. 10 William H. Taft Secretary of War, today grantee! the Union Oil Company, of California, permission to lay an oil pipe line across the Isthmus of Panama.' The' company agreed to pay $500 per month for the privilege. ' CUT Of BUSINESS . , (Sorlpps News Association) " Cleveland, Jan. 1 0. The suspension of th firm of Denieon. Prior & Co. was anr nounced this moming. The causa of sus pension is not given. TO PREVENT ; (Scrlpps News Association) " , Des Moines, Jan. 10 A bill was In troduced m the house . this afternoon pro viding for the compulsion of alii railroads to furnish passes to furnish passes to all congressman and other publio officials. It I elaimwi f nr th hill that it will tw-vont bribery on th part of the railroad and officials. i j r . (ASSIE LOST OUT f (Scrlppe News Association) ' t CinoinnaU, Jan. lO.-r-The United Stete Courts of Appeal this morning refused to grant, Cassie Chadwick a rehear ng. T DEKPERATE TtiElf CAPTURED ' Kalisneil. Mont. Jan. 10.-Aftar twice swimming th ic cold Kootenai river and tohangmg shots with pursuers,1 William Heard, a 1 9-year-old boy accused of rob bing the postoffic and Wood's store at Troy, has been captured while asleep in barn. He pleaded guilty and was sent enced to five year in th penitentiary v -.BOLD HOLDUPS IN BUTTS y ; Butte Jan. 10. The' Hennessy. Mer cantile 'Company's ' branch store at Centerville suberbs was held up last night by two masked men ' who escaped with more ' than 43.000.'' Manager 9Mullan was surprised by the highway man and forced to open the "safe. 'Watchman McGeever was also cspturod by the ban dits and disarmed.' The police have two men under arrest tinder suspicion, BOURNE BEfOM VOTERS . Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Portland, the mining icing, and the man who Is 'making an independent political fight, has sent broadcast an interesting appeal to the people of Oregon under th heading of th "People or th Grafters" which is well worth reading. In this connection he has submitted a postal card plodgs to the' voters asking them to support no on to th legislature who will not subscribe tl following pledge: "I further state to th, people of Oregon as well a to th people of my legislative district that during my term of office I will always vot' for that candidate for United State senator in" congress who ha received the . highest number of the people' vote for' that po sition at the general election next preced ing the l sot ion of a senator in congress without regard to my individual prefer- enC" ' it " JtOTIcr TO f RUITCROWERS ' All Fruitgrower who wish to become member of th : Northwestern Fruit grower Association should send their nam and on dollar to Hon. C. D. Huff man, secretary of the Association. Do this at one and thereby become a mem ber of the Association. ' Remember a letter addressed to C. D. Huffman, Secretary of Norhtwest Fruit Gowers Association containing one dollar will receive prompt attention, ; and you will be entitled to the full printed pro ceeding of the meeting. ' Th on article of Prof. Ball' on fruit tree spraying is well worth th dollar alone. ! ' MAT LIVE WO TEARS Th chances for living a full century art excellent in the case of Mrs. Jennie Dun can, of Haynesville, Me., now 70 years old. She writes; "Electric Bitters cured me of Chronic Dyspepsia of 20 years standing, and made me feel as well and strong at a young girl." Electric Bitters cure Stomach and Llvor diseases. Blood disorders. General Debility and bodily weakness. Sold on a guarantee at Newlin Druo Co.'s drug store. Price only 60f. LOST CALVES Th undersigned wil pay five dollar reward for the return or information leading to the return of ' one two year old brocket faced heifer branded quarter circle seven on right - rib, ear mark unknown. Will also pay a liberal reward for the return or in formation leading to th recovery of one yearling brindla heifer calf with split in one ear. The first named ani mal never returned from th hills, th second left my place about th tenth or fifteenth of December, 1905. Address Eo Strikoham, La ' Grande,' Oregon. Phone Farmer's line 196x6. , '. 4 . , . I STODDARD Sai'h arid Doors Lumber. Lath, ; : i 'Shingles. j Mouldings, Etc. rAU ; Gofcd Material cdmesr from cu Yitrd La Graiije "National 'Bank ESTABLISHED 1887 : tf Cpital Stock? Surplus "and DtDOsltS 1 . : i . Officers and directors GEORGE PALMER, Presidbht, J. M. BERRY, Vies Presidkht. F. L. MEYERS, Cashier. GEORGE L CLEAVER; Assistant.. Cashier. ; ' w W. L. BRENHOLTS.' Assistant Cashier. J. M. BERRY, F. M. BYRKIT. ' ' A. B. CONLEY, i- C. C. PENINGTON. - ' F. J. HOLMES. ' MAI ORDER SERVICE l( not only very satisfactory, but a great convenience when you want such goods as are carried by an up-to data drug store; ' s '"' . ,, We want the trade of distant people and hold out all th inducements possible to get it' Our prices ar right and all goods are guarnteed. If you ar not sat isfied with what w send you, return the goods and we will refund the money. In ordering be sure and send money enough to cover price, and we will return change if you send too much. Try this service and tee how prompt w ar. Newlin Druo Company. WHERE IT'S A QUESTION OF TASTE the best New Year's resolution you can make is to eat only the purest confections. Those . made by Selder are not only reputed to be th finest flavored, always fresh and absolutely pure, but art to in fact Our gift boxes are most bistefully gotten up.art'stic h style and make most acceptable offer- ing with your New Year congrat ulations. SELDER, .Candy . Man PRIMARY WJMIflATIM ELECTION NOTICE - Nolle It hereby given, that on th I Oth day of - February, -1 906. m the cttv of La Grande, County of Union, Stat of Oregon, a primary nominating election will be held, at which the Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition parties will choose their candidate for th office of th. above' named city, as follows: ' Mayor. Treasurer, Marshal. Recorder, on. Councilman from the First Ward, on. from th Second Ward, one from th Third Ward and two from the Fourth Ward, which election will be held at 12 o'clock noon and will continue un til 7 o'clock in the afternoon of said day. Dated thit 10th day of January, 1906. I. R. Snook Recorder of the City of La Grande, Ore gon. Centennial Hotel Under new munaoAmini Board and .Room $6 per' week. cash. Meals 26 cts. Special rates furnishe Monthly patrons. No. 1417 AHm a. Phone No. 1161. Mrt W. E. Murchison, proprietress ti UMBER CO. undivided profits $160,00000 ,.', ....: ., . . ... MO (VMUVO v una an unless you can trust youn I O htjtchr It will K ttfnrfh while to give u a trial order if you are looking for a thoroughly reliable market where you can be sure of finding a pleas-i ing variety of first-class meat'and poultry W can surely Interest - yoif with our prices. .1', - , The Good Old Standby. ' ' " ' ' ' ",''J.i . v ; Nothing likt a nice cut of juicy comed beef with cabbage or taeur-kraut one in a while! We can offer most of the time whole or half rounds. If you can us so much, or whatever quantity you require, of well fed and carefully corn ed beef-tender, "tasty" and wholesome. If you're in the notion today, 'phone ut th order and we'll have the meat around in no time., Grandy& Russell FOR SALE-5 year old jersey bull, for particular enquire of J. W. McAlistor or of the farm of Mrs. Lindsey, north of Island City. ; j WOOD SAW I . Your wood sawed with steam saw at 40 cents a cord, if you haat ten cord or over, under ten cord only 60 cents per cord. I com when I promise and satisfaction guaranteed DROP ME' A POSTAL J. S. VANDOEFY, i IIS I '3. ' .'. . r ' ' -, f 1 4 i i .1 i '. .i t i 1 1