fEASlBlLlTY Of WATER
SUPPLY f ROM BEAVER
jeiJASSIlriEB ADS
Rates One cent a word, one-half a cent a word each subsequent in
tion. C'ass;f.ed adds bring quick resj.ts. Try one today.
FURNISHED FF.'ONT ROOM-Ph;r.e
Bajj2
MONK," For ioans on city property see
Wm. Granft agency. Also real estate
and insurance.
WANTED To do plain sewing, also a
few music scholars for organ. Mrs.
De Lapp, near ice house.
FOR SALE A light wagon, team and
harness for sale cheap. Inquire east
end of Washington Avenue. C. C.
Morgan.
HELP WANTED Woman to do house
for family of two.
jTJ Inquire of M. Baker
Old Town
WANTED Girl or woman to do general
housework in small family. Inquire at
! Gmntin National Bank.
FOR RELIABLE ABSTRACTS OF
TITLES go to the La Grande Invest
ment Company, La Grande Ore., in
Foley building.
FOR SALE OR TRADE Two acres in
Honan's addition, nicely improved, large
roomy house, good water. Will trade
CAC""'
REAL ESTATE LOANS-Any amounts
on city and country real estate. Loans
closed promptly, as soon as title is ap
proved. La Grande Investment com
pany. FOR SALE One 23 by 60 Russell Sep
arator with wind stacker and long and
short self feeder and band cutter com
plete. J. E. Reynolds,
La Grande R. F. D., No. 2
It brings to the little one that price'ess
JBift of healthy flesh, solid bone and muscle.
That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain
Tea does. Best baby medicine on earth.
Tea or Tablets, 35 cents.
Nbwun Drug Company.
FOR SALE One threshing machine
33 by 60 with band cutter long feeder
and everything complete will sell or
trade.
J. E. Reynolds
Phone 1961
FOR SALE
Eight acres, 6 room house, barn, place for
chickens or hogs, orchard, all kinds o
fruit and plenty of water. Located east
of flouring mill, will ' exchange for city
projprty Apply at premises. JohnGavan
' A hard lot
of troubles to contend with, spring from a
torpid liver and blockaded bowels, unless
you awaken them to their proper action
with Dr. King's New Life Pills: thepieas
antest and most effective cure for Cons
tipation. They prevent Appendicitis and
tone up the system. 25c at Newlm
Drug Co.
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Jiick furnished in any quant.ty or any
style, No contract too s:nail or toj
large. See samples of our pressed
brick.
GEO. KREIGER
Lt (trrtode, Oregon
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D. H. STEWARD. Proprietor and Manager.
MONDAY
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Headed by the funniest of funny
MIRTH. MUSIC. MELODY. SWEET SINGERS. FUNNY COM
EDIANS. OCTOROONS. AND SPLENDID COSTUMES.
MAMARA S CHALLENCE
WiifO-ve a
Wanted Position by middle aged lady
to do general housework. Inquire Mrs.
A.E.Jones, Red 712. Cor. 5rd St.
and Adams Avenue.
FOR SALE A one and one half story
house three lots. Well and citv water.
G od 'ocation on Monroe street.
Plnquire at this office.
WOOD WOOD WOOD Parties desiring
to engage their winter supply of wood
will please leave their order at Mr.
Polock's grocery store. I have 600 cords
of good dry cord wood and of any kind.
Respectfully
J. Anthony.
TIMBER CLAIMS
We can locate a number of parties on
good timber claims of two million feet and
better.
holey Bik. La Grande Investment Co.
PASTURE
160 acres of good pasture adjoining
Morgan Lake. Good springs. $1.00 per
head per month.
Thoma Brsoadhurst
WANTED-To rent a house with 12 or
1 4 rooms, furnished, suitable for a priv-
. ate boarding house. Ms. Grace Barrie
WANTED Good competent girl for gen
eral housework wanted. Small family.
Apply at residence of George Palmer.
Fourth Street.
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.
A Trite Saying.
It Is a trite saying that no man ft
stronger thuii Ills KUmiacu. Dr. Pierce
Guideii Medical Discovery strengthens
the stomach puts it In shape to make
Eure, rich ulwxl belp9 the liver and
idneys to expel the poisons from the
body and thus cures botn liver and kid
ney trembles. If you take this natural
blood puritier and Uinic, you will assist
your system In manufacturing each day
a pint of rich, red blood, that Is Invigo
rating to the brain and nerves. The
weak nervous, run-down, debilitated
condition which so many people suffer
from. Is usually the effect of poisons In
the IiI'hmI; It is often Indicated by pimples
or boils appearing on the skin, the face
becomes thin hi id the feelings "blue."
1 r. I'icrcc's "Discovery" oiirr all blood
humors us well as being a tonic that
tiiukes nue vigorous, strong and forceful.
It is die only medicine put up for sale
through drii'jists for like purpose that
contains neither alcohol nor harmful
haliit-forniinir drugs, and tint only one,
every ingredient of which hus the profes
sional endorsement of tlie leading medical
writers of this country. Sunu of these
eii(lo--etneiit are published in a little
hook of extracts from standard medicul
works ami will lie sent to any address
fire, on receipt of request therefor by
letter or pot:il card, audreed Ui Dr. K.
V. "erce. IliilTalo. N. Y. It tells Just
what l'r. I'i' rce's medicines are inadn of.
The " Words of Praise" for the several
Ingredients of which lr. Pierre's nicul
cines are composed, by lenders in all the
several sciuiols of medicni practice, and
rcroiiniieiiilinu tin in lor tii cure of ti:c
diseases lor which the "(iolilell Medical
Discovery " is advised, should have far
more weight with the sick and afflicted
than any amount of the so-called "testi
monial" so conspicuously flaunted before
the public by those who arc afraid to let
the Ingredients of which their medicines
are composed lie known. Hear in mind
that the"tioldeti Medical Dist-overy " has
riiK liAHOK of iioSkntv on every hottln
wrapper. In a full list of Its Ingredients.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation. Invigorate Die liver and regu
late stomach utid trowels.
Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page Illus
trated Common ense Medical Adviser
will lie sent free, paper-hound, for 21 one
cent stamps, or clotli-lmnnd for 31 stamps.
Address lr. Pierce as alve.
AUGUST 13
FAMOUS j
Minstrels!
STARS
25
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fellows. SKINNER HARRIS
BAD AND JPRCHESTRA ;
Street Parade.
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To the people:
In a former published communication
it was shown that the city water works
had run behind over forty thousand dollars
since the installment in 1892. This
money has been raised by a special tax
levy; you have paid your water rents
and each of you have paid, accord nj to
your property valuation, your share of
t,s $40,000 cVc You have an, old
plant that is only a question of time when
the remains and laterals will have to be
replaced with new and larger pipe.
Part of the bonds against the water
system are being refunded now.
Had this city water water works been
owned and operated by a private corpor
ation it would be expected that it would
piy interest on its bonds from its earnings,
and besides it would be expected to pay
a profit to the owners and pay taxes' and
other fixed charges that do not apply to a
municipal system. In addition 13 this a
private concern would have to accumulate
a surplus to make extentions and better
ments and replace the worn out parts.
These matters of the past and present
are referred to in order to show what
may be expected in the future under like
conditions. The pumping station has had
much to do with creating the annual
deficit which may be partly overcome by
a gravity plant.
The committee of the council together
with the mayor and suveyor went on a
three days exploring expedition up beaver.
creek. We fotnd ample supply of water
for many years to come. The measure
ments we took at the place of diverting
this water from the channel show over
one hundred miner's inches or over eighteen
hundred thousand gallons per day at low
water mark. This will supply a city of
25000 people without reserviors.
We ran levels and ascertained the
point at which the water must be diverted
to cross the saddle back of the divide.
The scheme to run across country
around the heads of small streams run
ning to the river, is feasible.
For about the first 8 or 10 miles the
water can be conveyed in low pressure
pipe or wooden boxes. The basin of
Beaver creek is not extremely large nor
is the altitude high compared with the
mountain ranges back of it, but its loca
tion and formation and conditions are such
as to make an ideal water shed and
permanent water supply. The mountain
sides are mostly covered with shell or
broken ledge rock, so the waters from the
melting snows percolates down through
them and does not run away with the
spring freshets, The uplands, foothill
and valleys are covered with a deep
ashy soil, the result of an ancient volcano.
This acts as a huge sponge to absorbe
the waters and hold them in reserve.
The basin is all covered with a dense
growth of black pine, tamarac and balsam
so that in many places the sun never
shines on the ground.
There are many tibie lands, meadows
marshes and lakes and no dry
rocky beds of creeks. The water filters
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
AT G. A.-k ENCAMPMENT
(Serlpps News A'socluMon)
Mtnneapol.s, Minn. Aug. 13 The For
tieth encampment of the G. A. R. opened
today with a hundred thousand visitors.
Commander in Chief Tanner was
at the reception tonight. N. P. Brown of
Zanesville Ohio, leads in the race for
Commander in Chief. Mrs.' Prisbie of
California aspires for the presidency of
the W. R. C.
SULTAN'S PHYSICIAN
PROFUSELY HONORED
(Serlpps New Association)
Constantinople, Aug, 1 3. The sick
Sultan is a bad patient. He refuses to
take any treatments, but the attending
physicians succeeded in getting him to use
a simple remedy which brought relief.
The physicians were immediately given
the rank of a general and decorated with
badges of honor.
Mrs Julia A. Norton's Nut Oil Skin
Food and Nut Meal Face Powder also
Cerman Hair Tonic can be obtained
from Mrs M. J. Heck. No. 2011. 2nd
street.
La Grande Ore.
Pharmacists throughout the world hive
devoted the.r lives to the perfecting of
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It con
tains the choicest medical roots and herbs
known to modern medicine. TeaorTab
lets. 85 cents. Newun Dbuo Company.
fis'xy Mountain Tea Nuggete
A Bcy Hxliofn (or BuT PkbIi
Jrln?i OiIukO fl, iih mi Kn-,d Vigor.
puinn. iiKtitiox t.lwi
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through the rocks and ashen soil to the
springs in the deep canyons, and thus it
is there is a large steady stream of water
at all seasons.
In this basin containing perhaps 64000
acres there has been only two homesteads
taken; the balance is in the forest reserv
and upo- application of the city the Gov
ernment will make of it a permanent re-
serve as a water supply for La Cranc'e
for all time. This reserve and this water
supply should be secured at once.
The committee will na doubt report fav
orably and a special session of the council
should be called to place a corps of sur
veyors in the field to make a preliminary
survey and ascertain the distance and
probable cost.
Then on the report of the surveyors
when we have all the plans and sufficient
data to shape up a proposition, a special
election should be called to vote on bonds
to raise the mo ey to construct the line
nu secuie an iigol.
This may seem like rushing things with
too much haste, but when we consider
that we should have this water in here be.
fore low water next season, there is nc
time to be lost.
We voted to refund the old water bonds
five months ago and we have qnly reached
that stage of the proceedings where the
bid on the bonds has been accepted and it
will take several months before the deal
is completed.
A foracast of the proceedings in this
case will be about as follows: If a special
meeting is called, and a favorable report
of the committee is accepted, it will take
some time to get surveyors in the field,
and it may take 30 days to complete a
survey extensive enough to furnish the
desired information. We have to secure
a permanent reserve and such other rights
as may be needed. It will take some
months to float the bonds, and we ought
to have everything in shape to commence
construction the first thing in the spring
when the ground is soft and it should be
finished before the water is low or early
in July next year.
These are only the ideas of one man
while hundreds have to be consulted and
convinced that this project should be car
ried out. '
We do not want to fail by reason of not
having plans fully matured so every one
can vote intelligently; we want the bond
issue to carry at a low rate of . interest,
and want a system constructed perman
ently and economically and in plenty of
time for next season's supply, therefore it
it necessary to crowd things even if it
doss ?eem hasty.
A system of water works, a permanent
supply and a forest reserve like herein
contemplated is worth more to the inhab
itants of La Grande than any other thing,
not excepting the land on which the town
is bu It.
noping tnat things may work out as
smooth in fact as a pencil pusher can
work it out on paper is the desire of
Yours Truly,
J. B. Stoddard.
60 YEARS'
EXPERIENCE
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kiverand Chimin, making flii t
connection at Cliicag-i vwtt, ail
to the 1-i.int.
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A ROAST
FROM GRANDY & RUSSEL'S
will give you a very agreeable surprise
if you are not a customer of ours, a:;J
you will wonder why you never favored
us with an order before. Any of rt'r
patrons will tell you that our meats far
surpass anything ever tasted, being of tn
finest and most tender quality; and what
is more, always so. The best Iamb,
mutton, beef, veal and poultry in season
is always to be found at
Grandy & Russell
MEAT
Fresh and Cured
Gan be obtained at this mar
at all times. We deliver all
orders promptly. Phone to
us or leave your order. We
will do the rest.
KR0USE BROS Prop.
Successor to J. Bull and Go.
Phone Main 48
B. W. NOYES
NOYES
Electric
LAMPS and HOUSE
Hamilton Building.
M,X
LA GRANDE IRON WORKS
D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor
Complete Machine Shopsand Foundry
General Blacksmiths, We manufacture The Fitzgerald Roller Feed
Mill., the best and cheapest mill on the market. Our shops are
equipped with machinery tc handle any sized work, nothing too large
or nothing to sma:i. Higher prices paid for old cast iron.
WE WANT MONEY
and in order to get it we have decided to sell
FOR CASH
at a reduced price.
We can do this and still make a good prorit because we 2
have cut our expense account in the middle and we are 2
willing to give the benefit to our customers. Z
Our line of groceries is complete and the quality is un-
excelled. Gall and allow us to quote you prices on
(-aMj purunases. ;
SEATTLE GROCERY STORE I
All our groceries are good, clean, '
fresh, and pure. The kind that
will make your meals very delici
ous, and give the house-wife an
easy task in prepairing it.
We challenge the city on fresh
farm produce and berries. Every
thing that should be found in'
first class grocery.
PROMPT DELIVERY
PHONE MAIN 46
QEDDES BRLf
NORTH FIR STREET
If you bring her to our
CREAM PARLORS
ICC
you wiH have her won withou
pleading your case at her feet
SELPER, lh
JOHN HALL
& HALL
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Dealers in
Supplies
WIRING A SPECIALTY
Corner Fir and Adams Avenue
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