r ! t 5 sVe t V MADE IN LA GRANDE Our Own Make I SQUIRREL POISON . Guaranteed to KILL MORE SQUIRRELS than the earn quantity of any other kind made. We Carry in Stock A Full Line of Drugs arid Dru&Ist Sundries AT BEST Pr ICES Doctors Prescription and Family Receipts, a Specialty Two Graduated Pharmacists Always in Attendance. . i RED GROSS DRUG STORE A. C. MAC LENNAN. Prop. Prescription Pharmacist D. H. STEWARD. Proprietor and Manager, TWO NIGHTS, STARTING TUESDAY, JUNE 19 the DESTRUCTION SAN FRANCISCO Most realistic scenes of the wrecked city. A $10,000 production shown by moving pictures. Orchestra and Orchestra Center 50 c Dress Circle and Balcany 25 c La Grande Evening Observer WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20. 1906 Published daily except on Sunday One year in advance $6.50 Six months in advance 3.50 Per month ..... 65 Single copy 6c Have you secured your house numb.r yet? It is an easy matter to talk about pay rolls and dinner bucket brigades, but de sirable as they arc to any locality, they are not so easily obtained. The czar is damning the douma and douma is denouncing the bureaucrats in language equally sulphurous. Russia is having the time of her life. Fine Confectionery and Cigars VanBuren's I Eat your Ice Cream on your way in cones Tiy our Cocoanut Sundaes DELICIOUS Next door to post Office rccn rocerles Fresh Every Day Everything: in season ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY Try a Sample of our Ghcesc SEATTLE GROCERY CO . . LAWSON BROS. Prop. If your liver is out of tune, take a trip over the valley. A ten mile drive in any direction will effect a permanent cure Every business should make a special effort to get out for a few hours and if he can't see enough to justify preparing for a youu businessman tms summer and fall ne certainly is a misfit. Money is growing this season on thousands of acres, look where you may. . ii certainty is a neauny sign for any state to be in a position to have to im port men to carry on the work of general development. Such is the condition of the labor markat at present. The exten sive railroad building which is now in construction and which will continue for several years to come, means that Oregon is on the eve of absorbing thousands of people. The home seeker can't make a mistake. Every portion of the state is progressing, however those localties that make the effort are securing the greatest per cent of increase. HEW STATE WEU EQUIPPED This county must not let another sea son pass without having proper 'descrip tive literature to send out among the home seekers who are coming to this state This county has the authority to spend annually $1,000 for advertising purposes. It is a good investment if properly man aged and will result In securing more population. Mora population means more taxes and more business for every body. It pay the businessman to ad vertise, why not the county? Other counties find it profitable and we do not believe there is another county In the state that can offer any better induce ments to the home seekei than Union county. We certainly have the goods to show, why not advertise them. Dr. Wiley, having knocked out so many frauds in his capacity as chemist of the Agricultural Department, is now sighing for other worlds to conquer. At present he is training his guns on what was sup posed to be the innocuous cranberry, but in which the doctor's sharp eyes have de tected benzoic acid, whose continued Juse is extremely injurious to health. Now, if benzoic acid is added to embalmed turkey the kind that the cold storage people are handing out. It is easy to see that danger lurks in the popular Thanksgiving and Christmas dish, and it begins to look as if nothing is safe from the inquisit.ve iconoclasts. LOST A small combination card case and purse, containing about twenty dollars, in this city yesterday. Finder return to this office and receive reward I THE LA GRANDE I NURSERY SHAj)ETREES Ia one of my special ties. Delivery lo be made on or after March 15. Special bargains on Roses 1 also have a fine lot of Apple, pear, prune, plum, cherry, appri cot. peach, mulberry, shade trees and ornamental trees, grapes, currents, gooseberry, blackberry, dewberry, rasp berry, vines, creepors, and hedge plants. J Phone 1611. Thorns' grocery i Geo. W. Powell, Whatever may be the outcome of the statehood vote in Arizona and New Mexico, there is reason to feel satisfied with the result of the long discussion in congress and it effects Oklahoma and Indian Territory, which, by the signing of the bill by the president on Saturday, are admitted to joint statehood under the name of Oklahoma. There has been a practically united opinion that the claim of these two territories should be recog nized. Size, homogeneity and density of population were all factors admitting of no argument in determining their fitness to become a state. The new state will have an area of about 70 000 square miles, with a popu lation estimated at 1,600,000. of which Oklahoma has 800,000 and Indian Terri tory 700,000 and Indian Territory 700, 000. The state will therefore have 20 or more inhabitants to the square mile. And this population is nearly all white, the name of Indian Territory being in some sense a misnomer, as the Indian population numbers only about 100,000 souls. It is said that in both territories ! forming the new state, but more parti cularity in Oklahoma, illiteracy is almost unknown. Tue sidle co es into the Union wel equipped in natural resources. Its lands are described as being generally fertile, while there are rich deposits of coal and minerals. Oklahoma is a good producer of cotton, corn, cattle and fruit. It there fore comes endowed with all the requi site essentials to take a prominent place among the states. Spokane Review. FURNITURE HARDWARE CARPETS, LINOLEUM, and MATTING. GRANITE, TIN. CHINA. GLASSWARE, and CUTLERY. GINS, AMUNITI0N, and FISHING TACKLES. TRUNKS, TELESCOPES, and SUITCASES. In fact every t ring NEW and SECOND HAND can be had here at BARGAINS. We pay highest cash prices for SECOND HAND GOODS of value. Or will take your old goods in exchange for any articles in our store. FIR STREET SECOND HAND STORE 213 FIR STREET Gall or phone H. B. HAISTEN Red 1751 -. - ............ An Alarming Situation frequently results from neglect of clog ged bowels and torpid liver, until constip ation becomes chronic. This condition is unknown to those who use Dr. King's New Life Pills; the best and gentliest reg ulars of Stomach and Bowels. Guaran teed by Newlin Drug Co. Price 25 cts. THIS FOR MINE EVERY TIME No more a muddledbrain for mine I'll call for soda every time Quench my thirst to my heart's content, Save cash for clothes as well as rent Treat my wife and children too "Smile" with them, and "smile" with you. All the popular drinks at Hill's soda fountain. LODGE DIRECTORY EaOLES - La Grande Aerie 2S6F. O E. meets .ry Frcsy n'ght in Elk rial!, at 8 v m. Visitirg fcrhren r.vited to att. I. R. Snook W. S Dr. G. L. Siggers W . P. I. O. O. F. La Grande Lodge No. 16. meets in their hall every Saturday night. Visiting brothers cordially invited to at tend. Cemetery plat may be seen at Model Restaurant. H. E. Coolidoe, N. G. ' D. E Cox, Sec. STAR ENCAMPMENT, tin SI in O. F. Meets every first and third Thurs- uay iii mo munin in uaa reuows nail. Visiting patriarchs always welcome. G. E. Fowler, C P. D. E. Cox, Scribe. M. W. A.- La Grande Camp No. 7703 meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at I. O. O. F. hall. All visiting neighbors are cordially invited to attend. C. S. Williams, V. C. John Hall, Clerk. FORESTERS OF AMERICA Court Maid Marion No. 22 meets each Thurs day night in Redman hall. Brothers ire invited to attend. FHEn Hon Chief Ranger L. L. Snodcrass Financial Sec. Board of Trustees Dr. G. L. Biooers John Hall and C. S. Williaml FR1ENDSH1pTeNT No. SI, K. O. T Meets second and fourth Wednesdays .ach month in I. O. O. F. hall. isiting tn.ghts welcome. H. C. Ball. Com. Mox Blcch, Record Keeper , LO. T. M. HIVE No. 27. Meets every first and third Thursdays in the after noon at the Redmen hall. All visiting ladies are welcome. .. Ma"deLono Lady Commander. M. C. v essey. Record Keeper. B. P. O. E.. U GRANDE LODGE Na 433 Meets each Thursdav evening at eight o'clock in Elks' hall, on Adams Avenue. Visiting Brothers are cordially invited to attend. E. W. Davis. Exalted Rnl.r G. E. McCully. Recording Secretary. LA GRANDE LODGE No. 169 WOODMEN OF THE WORLD-Mr.' every Friday of each month in the K. of P. hall in the Corp building. All visiung members welcome. N. L. Ackles, Consul ComnunJ.r J. H. Keeney. Clerk. RED CROSS LODGE, No. 27-Maeu every Monday evening in Castle Hall, Uirpe building. A Pythian welcom. ts, all visiting Knights. N. L Acklp r. r. R. Pattison, K. R. & S. RATH BONE- SISTERS Row.T.m. pie No. 9 meets every Wednesdav irg at 8 p. m. in the K. of P. Hill in th. Ccrpe building. Visiting members cordi- slly invited. Milly Frawicv M f r A LITTLE TALK ON ICE CREAM SODA NOT BETTER THAN THE BEST BUT BETTER THAN THE REST To maintain the reputation we have acquired for supplyidg the needs of our many patrons in every department, a reputation we point to with pardon able pride, we want, now, to advise you that we have opened our soda fountain with a new line of crushed fruits and fruit juice which excel any which we have ever had, and while we may occasianly find a party who has never tried one of our deiicious ICE CREAM SODAS we find a hun dred who have, and do, and always will, because they wart the best and apprec ate a fine article. We have some new flavors this year which are going to be of universal favor on account of their delicate flavors. Hoping you will kindly fa or us with an early call, so we may show you. We are respectfully, A. T. HILL. ; Prescription Oruggist LA GRANDE. OR ...... CAR LOAD OF iSTAR A STAR SHINGLES Received Today Windows Doors and Building hardware. Plumbing done in the neatest manner. W. H. BOHNFNKAMP CO HIS APPRECIATION ! THE BUSINESS MAN thoroughly appreciates the advantages "of a chewing account with a bank. Those who do not keep such an account miss many of its advantages. We are always glad to explain ths workings of a checking account to those who are not familiar with banking. Interests paiden time deposits and in savings department. CAPITAL AND SURPI US $74,000.00 TjAg farmers- ana Traders Rational SftdnA IN ANCIENT DAYS watches were clumsy affairs and . were not cvjr-accurate. To ap preciate how much the art of . watchwakmg has advanced you should see our ladies' TIMEPIECES y- - , - - Tney are delicate little affairs Mn ,oia. silver, gun metal, or enamel. I hey are all guaranteed to keep accurate time and not to get out of order easily. The prices are about anything you care to pay. I J. H.TCARC. Jeweler and Optician "1 e e it Ecnice Procter M. of R. & c. t