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PACE EIGHT. EVEMXQ O VSKRVKlt LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JAMAUY 27.. IMS. - BETTER PAPER FORI LESS . . ... . SUNK POT Of 'CORRUPTION (Continued from page 1.) Rightly or wrongly we unconsciously iudge people by appearances, and that is one reason why you should use good paper for correspondence. Good taste in the matter, of stationery is indica tive of refinement, and you cannot choose amiss when you buy here. It's not necessary either to pay the high prices commonly asked. We have a nice line of box papers at 10 to 60c per box. A good quality by the pound an economical way to buy 25 cents. Ruled or plain iinen pdpet 15 cens per quire. We have a very attractive line of tablet papers from 5 cents up to 35 cents, the latter a tablet of fine correspondence paper with envelopes to match. Always glad to show these things. i NEWLIN DRUG CO. I OREGON LA GRANDE DIRECTORY OF THE FRATERNAL ORDERS lA GRANDE, ORE. j Woodmen of tlie World. -La Grande Lodge No. 188. W. O. W., meeta every Friday ot each month In the K. ot P. hall In Corpe building-. Al visiting members wel come. N. L. ACKI.ES, J. H. KEENEY, Consul Commander. Clark. A. K. A. M. La Orande Lodge No. 41, A. F. A. M hoi On regular meetings flint and third Saturdays at 7; 30 p. m. L. H. RUSSELL. W. M. C. D. HUFFMAN. Secretary. Pythian Sisters. Rowena Temple No. f, Pythian .Slaters, meet every Thursday evening t ( p. tn., In K. of P. hall. In the Corpe building-. Vlaltlng mombera cor dially Invited. LIZZIE HAWQRTH, M. E. C. BTC1YICE PROCTER. M. of R. A C. Fc renters of America. Court Maid Marian No. 22 meet each Wednesday night In Elks' hall Drothors are Invited to attend. NEKl ACKLES, C. U. Q. V. HENDHICKS, F. S. Board of- Trustee: Dr. O. L. Big gcrs, Oscar Borgor and Herbert Patterson. U O. T. M. Hive No. 17. L. O. T. M meets very first and third Thursday of each month at I o'clock In the afternoon, tlsltiug uiumbors made welcome. V 8AD1E KL1NTWORTH. L. C. MAGGIE REYNOLDS, K. of R. . Brotherhood of Owls. La Grande Neat No. 17, meets tn the K. ot P. hall every Tuosday eve ning at 8 o'clock. Visiting brothers cordially Invited. N. U ACKLE8. Eiecutlve. B. L. LRAVITT, Secretary. K. of P. Red Cross Lodge No. 17, meets very Monday evening In Castle Hall, Corp building. A Pythian welcome to all vlaltlng knights. HAROLD HERRON. C C. R. PATTISON. K. of R. 4 8. Kobekalia. Crystal Lodge No. BO, meets every Tuesday evening at the 1. O, O. F. lodge. All vlaltlng members are In tiled to attend. LAURA STILES, N. O. JENNIE SMITH. Pecretarv. M. W. A. La Orande Camp No. 7703 meet every Monday evening at I. O. O. 1 hall. All visiting neighbors are cor dially Invited to attend. E. C. DAVIS, C. D. E. COX, Clerk. V. O. E. Iji Grande Aerie No. 239. F. O. E. meeta every Friday night' In Elks hall at 8 p. m. Visiting brethren In vited to attend. J. H. PEARE. W. P GEO. J. ABEOQ, W. 8. I. O. O. P. Star Encampment No. 11, 1. O. O F., meeta every second and fourth Wednesday In the month In Odd Fel lows' hall. Vlaltlng patriarchs alwayt welcome. p. E. COX, C. P. W. A. WORSTELL, Scribe. M. B. of A. Meets first und third Thursday eve- at I. O. O. F. hull. Vlaltlng member always welcome. J. A. ARBUCKLE. President C. J. VANOERPOEL. Secretary. B. P. O. E. La Orande Lodge No. 423, meeta each Thursday evening at 8 o'clock In Elks' hall on Adams avenue. Vlalt lng brothers are cordially Invited to attend. W. U. SARGENT. Exalted Ru'.c-. ' O. E. M'CULLT. Rec. 8eo. i. o. o. r. La Orande Lodge No. It. meeta In their hall every Saturday night. Vla ltlng brothers cordlully Invited to at tend. Cemetery plat may be seen at Model Restaurant. , T. J. SCROGG1N. N. O. P. K. COX, Secretary. C. J. VANDERPOEL, Fin. Sec. lal the corrupt officials of ihl city and county were charged by the very man whom this anonymous letter writer says la a coward, with being contributors to the spirit of lawless ness, by reason of their failure to en force the lawa In thla city. Was that cowardice? Second: The next Sunday all of the evangelical ministers of the city preached to crowded houaes on the (Uestion as to whether the laws and ordinances against vice and crime ought to be enforced In Baker City. Several hundred of signatures were secured to petitions asking the offi cials to do their duty. Was that cowardice? . Third, we. have had three lnter vlewa with the mayor, In one of which he assured us that it was his plan to recommend to the council on Decem ber 3 that they close gambling Janu ary 1, 1908. and In which he ex pressed the hope that we might not prosecute. We agreed not to do so If he would keep his word and close gambling. At this time we laid be fore him three complaints of women seen by ua In saloons on Sundays. Fourth, we Interviewed the prose cuting attorney', Mr. Lomax, and fjur.2 that h" wonM An nothing un less we furnished the evidence. Fifth, we employed a man to secure evidence agulnst the gambling dens. Hit he skipped town with the evl lence and our money! Sixth December 3 we were at thf council meeting, when the mayor war 'o recommend the closing of gam Ming, only to find that he had been rullty of his "good Lord, good Devil" wllcy again. He absolutely ignored he question of gambling and us! We had to almost frce recognition Ve courteously asked the council tr. nforce the law against gambling fter which the mayor Informed ur hat we were discourteous, and left he room 'mad. Neither he nor the oiincll has done anything about jumbling. Seventh We went twice before the land Jury and laid the facts before hem. entering complaint against ;amblers and public officials. Th bove cowardly letter-writer contend hat we know that the grand . Jurj voulrt close gambling "in might) hurt order" If we were to lay com Oalnts before them. On the othei land, we know that the man Is might ly mistaken If he thinks that. He vldently knows nothing of the cot uptton of this city and county. Tin irand Jury hud the facts from A to Z ver tlie name of one of the minister f this association, with the ussoela Ion back of him. Where Is there In llrtment? " Eighth We have oeen before both t the papers of the city, and asked hem to at least glvv the news of th Ight for civic righteousness; but the. nslst that the Immoral elements ot he city will withdraw their patron ise If they help us, and so they dare not help. Ninth We Interviewed the chief of police. He assured us that he vould close the town tight If tlu nayor would give the order, but that le dared not do so without that order. because the mayor would remove him from office at once. Tenth We wrote the facts in full o the Oregonlan. asking them to publish the same. They declined to lo so. but promised to ask their sne- lal correspondent to Investigate the natter and write them for publica tion. We at once laid all the facts before the man who admitted that he was that correspondent with the re sult that we nre sold out again, as we have been by nearly every man to whom we have appealed for help. Eleventh A body of business men waited on the mayor, and asked him to enforce the law against gambling: but nothing has come of It except that his honor has had another chance to show how largely he Is composed ot gelatinous tissue. Allow us to stir up a little stinking pot of corruption In this city: First The curfew ordinance In the city la not enforced. January 24 four couples, little more than children. were seen on Front street at 11:55 at night, laughing and talking coarsely Similar scenes are frequent. There are from 30 to 36 Immoral women who are rounded tip each month by the chief of police, and fined $5 apiece, and elcht gambling lens that pay fines regularly of 10 i month. In these dens there ar played games tbal were forced out of the mining centei-s of Colorulo IS years ago, because In their nature they are so dishonest that decent favor gamblers taboo them. There are at least two cigar stores where gambling Is regularly carried on. Casebeer's cigar store. In the Sherman block, on. Center street. Is one of the vilest holes In the city, where young men and boys gamble every night. Theae places pay tine, yet the police let them alone. On a recent night our representa tives made the rounds . through the gambling dens. They aaw but one policeman the entire time, and he was in a gambling den. It Is rumored that the same policeman has been so drunk again and again while on d'tty that he has had to be taken home In a cab yet the corrupt mayor reappointed him, and allows him to remain on the force! Dr. Fuller, who Is ow in Jail, where he has been for perhaps a year, declares that the Judge before whom he was tried was so drunk dur ing the trial that he had to be awak ened twice, and, on one occasion, to have evidence read to him for an hour by the clerk, because he had lost It during his drunken stupor. Fred Parker was sentenced by that same Judge, for a crime which Parker says he never committed, to the peniten tiary for two years, but his sentence j vapidly suspended on condition that his friends secure employment for him and he continue oa good behavior. He should have been released from tail on January 17, but he was sun In prison on January 25. Why? Sim ply because the only man who had authority to let him out was too hunk to do his duty. This same Judge was seen In com pany with Mayor Johns at the bar of the Gelser Tr.'nd hotel lr..-Me of four and a half minutes from the time they left the Harvey Brown memorial, the former drinking and the latter working the slot machine. Common rumor has It that Mr. Johns commonly frequents the gam bling den of the Log Cabin saloon, whose proprietor. It is rumored, owns the brothels of the city, and employs his honor as his attorney. Citizens of Baker City, are you In favor of immorality and" lawlessness, as Mayor Johns claims you are? Are you In favor of paying officials to safeguard the city and county, only to see them openly defy the moral element and the great state of Ore son?? Are you In favor of being bossed by. gamblers, saloon keepers, prostitutes and corrupt officials? Are you In favor of continuing the open town policy of your corrupt mayor, when every other town In Oregon is obeying the law? Are you In favo of keeping decent people from co' Ing to Baker City on account of thr Are vou in fear of moral crnim fish for mayor . ,,f a prosecuting "" n..t do the duty which f a Jelly-: you In favr m-v who wiil he has sworn to do. but depend on, poor preachers to secure the evi dence for him? Are you lnavor of no the policy of silence whim nas long characterized the papers oi uic city? Are you In favor of running schools of vloe for your boys and girls simply because the city gets 19400 a year from them? Have we a "bone less city, as well as a '-Boneless Charlie? "Tours for Eaknr the Beautiful. "THE MINISTERS' ASN." PRIMITIVE lift IK SUIf Of The following letter was reject at this office this morning fr.sr. out old-time friend Fred Jacvh. taking the open-air cure its A.r:;v,!m It will be welcome news to l.-.y t i.n erous La Grande friends til ! i chaining his lost k ::.. i;m. that he will soon be as g.v-1 1 " Florence, Aril., tix. Currey, Bros., ! -t ne-mile. Oregon: ' Well, old-time friends. I th-il C would drop you a few lln.s asJ ft. you a faint idea of the primitive l.'-t in Arizona and some of Its fortunes and misfortunes. I came Into Ariiona at The Needles, some 2')ii miles up the Colorado river, to Yuma, from there to Phoenix. This was a stage trip of about 250 miles through the desert with the only vegetation to rest the eye being scrub greasewood and the ever-present cactus. On this trip I saw many prospectors and a few mines. At Phoenix I stayed nearly four. weeks. While there I visited Dr. Wlllard Smith of La Grande, al his camp, and ulso had a pleasant time with Mr. Stephens, another former resident of La Grande. From Phoe nix I went to Florence, a little Mexi can village of about 400 Mexicans anil about 200 Indians and some 30 Amer icans. This Is. to my notion, a verv healthful place. It is about 62 miles : out on the desert from Phoenix, and ' will not likely ever be much of a commercial center, hut is a fair type of the Mexican village, and a good ; place for a sick man. It Is but a mile from the depot of a branch ilne I of the Southern Pacific. The houses The frjGHT PAGES. .. .hirta overalls and cigareueM. Blfl The t age coach which brings the mall to Folience looks like a remnant of .-hi., milk iinirin. The ran-. a ?u!o"i'i hits here are so pumerous that only one-half of the rabbit population can. , run at a time, the other half must wait until their neighbors get through before they can take their exercise. Well. I will turn to my own way of living. I camp out of doors, and sleep out of doors. The weather her Is Ideal for such a life. Ttw sua shines all the time, i g" my shirt sleeves from morning uniu night. Should you visit me at my camp ru would think that you were cs,!1t. at a Isdisn village. If my La a f-tii" want real life, the vkiT thu tdts on the fat, let them f.ni oi-wB 2 srad h winter with 1 urn. Ktv n1'l- 4 'lite .- In a wood 1 ribnppow' rump BSue moun tains. -TKy niFMla-r ocslst of 'input mf i8 fcatf pounds 'oj lieoM'i'i.i;. fc ;pm;i -it tread and . J ..... It., la VOi ItlHfW- o: Tlii:i, -:J'I lew iil.iv Tlimpv 'tar ' "iil' ii wws. I am feel tu: 'Jim lir- utii: -Viv gained 17 :pouiii ir o.o ' . if you really -viwl: tu. iutun. .-uat down and visit four oil iiilctM. . twir v'tur Jt-ienii. FP.KD JACOPS. t'tit :sr itr? rillgious, political .fMianoaal system Is the man that j are all constructed of adobe, r stocks of "general merchandise ILL H VALE Clalmholders In the Vale oil well district are to sink a well at the ex pense of a corporation consisting of members, now claimholders. accord ing to a decision reached at the meet ing of the I.a Grande oil claim hoffj era 'who assembled In the Elks' halt yesterday afternoon. To appoint a committee after this step was determined upon, was the principal work done at the meeting. This committee, consisting of F. S. Ivanhoe, Peter O'Sulllvan. David Bay, C. P. Goodnough and Frank Jolly, will probe the possibilities of doing thjs under finance of the organiza tion, and report this week if possible. A man in the right, with God odT his side, is m the majority, though he be alone. H. W, Beecher. A GREAT REMNANT SALE The People's BEGINNING SAT. t Store ! JAN. 25 ! ii II 4 me ai ui me pan season nave left us wifh a great many short lengths in our piece goods depart ments. These we have gathered together and MARKED DOWN TO WHAT WOULD SEEM BELOW THE BOTTOM OF POSSIBILITY. The lot fills a number of large tables in our store and includes ALMOST AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF CALICOES, OUTINGS, FLANNELETTES PER CALES, COTTON and WOOL DRESS GOODS SUM LACES, EMBROIDERIES, RIBBONS ' AT ABOUT HALF WE REGULAR price eople's Store The F LA GRANDE, $ t OREGON i '.f 5sHtJ