PACE EIGHT.
EVEMXQ O VSKRVKlt LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JAMAUY 27.. IMS.
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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
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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.
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Store !
JAN. 25 !
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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
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