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MGllT PAGES. rvExixc onsKRmt. la graxde, onneoN, Tn:?MY, Rrrnictu a. ioos. VAc.r. hvxttx. -2 g lirely . of melal. .Better than alt other washing machines combined Tfe a nnltf c hi nff marftlnD t rrfr c urtV the dirt out of clothes. It does not rub the clothes and therefore does notl n ear ana tear. A tree demonstration at your home which will shew ysu In a practical man ner Just what it will do and I caw you to judge. . A i PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (Continued from page 8.) G. C Scheurer, Agent for Wallowa and Union County PHONE BLACK 1571 LAUNDRY 'Done ; '.''.' The Way You Want it done phowe main 7 : A, C. Laundry Daily Observer, 65c per Month 4 Own Your Water System And Be Independent A Well Will Solve The Problem Twenty-five years' experience In the well-drilling business enables me to do your work properly and economically. I am prepared to drill to any depth. 1 , ASK ME FOR PARTICULARS AMD REFERENCE RE CARWNO WELLS I DRILLED IN THIS COUNTY D. M HUNT; La Grande f t. I SIEWARD'S OPERA HOUSE J D. H. STEWARD, Mgr. and Prop. I Two Nights Commencing ! DECEMBER 7 th THE NEW AND NOVEL ATTRACTION I Ah G..- BARNES 1 TRAINED ANIMAL SHOW Pumas. Panthers. t Boxing Kangaroos, Dogs, Ponies, Apes, Monkeys, J Baby Elephants, Camels and the i GREAT BENO ! World's Greatest Gymnast i PRICES: 75c; 50c; 55c; Advance Sale at the usual place 4-' Dsily Cbse.vcr 65c per Aonth tured alcohol, as Intended, 1 making a fair degree of progress and la enti tled to further encouragement and support from the congress. I'uro Food. The pure food legislation has al ready worked a benefit difficult to overestimate. - " """"" FoMal Savings Bank.' ' " I again renew my recommendation for postal savings banks, for deposit ing savings with the security of the government behind them. The object Is to encourage thrift and economy' In the wage-earner and person of moderate means. . In 14 states the de posits in savings banks as reported to the .comptroller of the currency amount to $3,690,245,402, or 8.4 per cent of the entire deposits, while In the re malnlng 32 states there are only $70, 308,543, or 1.6' per cent, showing con clusively that there are many local! ties In the United States where suffl ctent opportunity Is not given to the peope to deposit their savings. The result Is that money Is kept In hiding and unemployed. It Is believed that In the aggregate, vast sums of money woud be brought into circulation through the Instrumentality , of the postal savings banks. While there are only 1453 savings bank 3 reporting to ";e comptroller there are more than 01,000 poBtofflces, 40,000 of which are money order . offices. ." Postal savings banks are' now In operation in praetl cally all the great, civilized countries with the exception of the , United States. . . ' ,. Parcel Post. In my last annual message I com mended the postmaster general's rec ommendation for an extension of the parcel post on the, rural routes. The establishment of a local parcel post on rural routes would be to the mutuul benefit of the farmer and the country storekeeper, and lIa ' desirable that the routes, serving more than 15,000, 000 people, should be utilized to the fullest practical extent. An amend ment was proposed in the sonate at the last session, at the suggestion of tne postmaster general, providing that for the purpose of ascertaining' the practicability of establishing a special parcel -post system on the rural routes throughout the United States, the postmaster general be authorized and directed to experiment and report to the congress the result of such ex periment by establishing a special lo cal parcel post system on a rural route or at the distributing postoffice for delivery by rural carriers. It would seem only proper that such an experi ment should be tried in order to dem onstrate the practicability of the prop osition, especially as the postmaster general estimates that the revenue de rived from the operation of such a sys- te tnon all the rural routes would amount to many million dollars. Statehood. I advocate the immediate admission of New Mexico and Arizona as states. This should be done at the present session of the congress. The people of the two territories have made it evident by their votes that they will not come in as one state The only alternative Is to admit them as two, and I trust that this will be done with out delay. Interstate Fisheries. I call the attention of the congress to the importance of the problem of the fisheries In the interstate waters. On the Great Lakes we are now, under the wise treaty of April 11 of this year, endeavoring to come to an In ternational agreement for' the preser vation and satisfactory use of the fisheries of these waters which can not otherwise be' achieved. Lake Erie, for example, has the richest fresh water fisheries In the world; but It is now controlled by the stat utes of two nations, four states and one province, and in this province by different ordinances In different counties. All these political divisions work at cross purposes, and In no case can they achieve protection to the fisheries, n the one hand, and Justice to the localities and Individuals on the other. The case is similar In Pu get Sound. But the problem is quite as press ing in the Interstate waters of the United States. The salmon fisheries of the Columbia river are now but a fraction of what they were 25 years ago and what they woud be now if t Vriitf"! f,tat,s gnvrrment hfM taken compete charge of them by In tervening between Oregon and Wash ington. During these 25 years the) fishermen of each state have natur-1 ally tried to take all they could get. I and the two lsl?!ature have never been able to agree on Joint action of ny kind adequate in degree for the protection of the fluherlc. At the moment the fishing on the Oregon side Is practically' closud, while there Is no limit on the Washington side of any kind, and no one can tell what the courts will decide as to the very statutes, under which this action and non-aetlon result. Meanwhile very few salmon reach the spawning grounds, and probably four' years hence the fisheries will amount to nothing; and this comes from a strug gle between the associated, or glll- nety fishermen on the one hand, and th ownurv of the fluMng wheels up the river. The fisheries of the Missis sippi, the Ohio, and the Potomac are also In a bad way. For this there Is no remedy except for the United States to control and legislate for the lnt state fisheries as part of the business of Interstate commerce. In this esse the machinery for scientific investiga tion and for control already exists In the United States bureau of fisheries. In this as In similar problems the ob vious and simple rule should be fol lowed of having those matters which no particular state can manage taken In hand by the United States; prob lems, which In the seesaw of conflict ing state legislatures are absolutely tinsolvabte, are easy enough for the congress to control. Panama Canal. The work on the Panama canal Is being done with a Bpeed, efficiency and entire devotion to duty, which make It a model for all work of the kind. Mo task of such magnitude has ever, before been undertaken Dy any nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better performed. The men on the Isthmus, from Colone Goethals and his fellow commission ers through the entire list of employ s who are faithfully doing their duty, tiave,won their right to the ungrudg lng respect and gratitude of the American people. The Xnvy. I approve the recommendations of the general board for the Increase of the navy, calling. especial attention to the need of additional destroyers and Colliers, and above all, of the four bat teshlps. It is desirable to complete as soon as possible a squadron of eight battleships of the best existing typo, The North Dakota, Delaware, Florid and Utah will form the first division of - this squadron. The four vessels proposed will form the second division It will be an Improvement on the first the ships being of the heavy, single caliber, all big gun type. All the ves sels should have the same tactlc.il qualities, that Is, speed and turning circle, and as near as possible . these tactical qualities should be the same as is in the four vessels before named now being built, I most earnestly recommend tht the general board be by law turned Into a general staff. There Is literally no excuse whatever for continuing the present bureau organization of the y. The navy should be treated as a purely military organization, ana everything should be subordinated to the one object of securing military ef ficiency. Such military efficiency can nnlv bo srunrnnteed in time of war If there. Is the most thorough previous preparation in time of peace a prep aratlon, I may add, wheh will in all probability prevent any need of war. The secretary must be supreme, and he should have as his official advisers a body of line officers who should themselves have the power to pass up on and co-ordinate all the work and all the proposals of the several bu reaus. A system of promotion by merit, either by selection or by ex clusion, or by both processes, should be introduced. It Is out of . the ques tion if the present principle of pro motion by mere seniority Is kept to expect to get the best results from the higher officers. Our men come too old, and stay for too short a time, In the high command positions. Two hospital ships should be pro vided. The actual experience of the hospital ship with the fleet In the Pa cific has shown the invaluable work which such ships do, and has also proved that It Is well to have It kept under the command of a medical of ficer. As was to be expected, alt of the anticipations of trouble from such a command have proved completely baseless. It Is as absurd to put a hos pital ship under a line officer as it would be to put a hOHpital on shore under such a command. Tills ought to have been realized before, and there is no excuse for failure to real ize It now. Nothing tetter for the navy from every standpoint has ever occurred than the cruise of the battle fleet around the world. The Improvement of the ships In every way has been ex traordinary, and they have gained far more experience In battle tactics than THE COOK WILL DE CLAD to see some of our high grtdo coal carried Into your cells r. Didn't know there were fralrw In coal 7 Why there ere alaiont as many as there are of ess or butter. Let us send you the kind that will prove by th fur fcctlon of the kitchen fire that our coal U -different ' taV the ordinary and decidedly better. 0. E. FOWLER . Phone Main 10 5 III Health U More Expensive Titan Any Cure, . Tills country is now filled with peo ple who migrate across the continent In all directions seeking that which gold cannot buy. ' Nine-tenths of them are suffering from throat and lung trouble or chronic catarrh resulting from neglected colds, and spending fortunes vainly trying to regain lost health. Could every sufforer but undo cold, all this sorrow, pain, taxlety miJA expense could have been avoided. Chamberlain's cough remedy is fa mous for It cures of colds, and caa always he deDended.unnn. IT If nS tho more serious diseases may ka avoided. For sale by all good dealem. No man can preach far beyond has real self. . It's never "wise to trust the man the past and cure that first neglected trusts no one. For a Timber Claim ' Call on Burger A feverson, over New lln Drug store, 'rhone Main 1. T ifsftk -' ran vrm ' rv 1 kssx 4 I There is a diff erence in bread. Have yen tried ours yet? If you have not, you I should. You may be missing some thing. Violin and Viola InMracUoa. Miss Tourt will open a athOio to a. limited number of pupils at the nonse of Mrs. Harriet R. McDonald. HI Sixth street." 'Pohne Black 462. Ex cellent preferences given. fSSSsTMASil . " Laundry VVoik: ROAL BAKERY f You want yourt aWc e linen and other U in dry ork dene J '" -r I. excepionally r Ice for this occasion. Send It early - - - - - t e WE WILL CERTAINLY, PLEASE YOU Z CHERRY'S NEW LAUUDRYi BOTH PHONES BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE f : .... . .. - -. . - 1 - ....,. T. J. CRAY Prop. ( New Management) , J Rates $U0, $1.25, $1.50 Best 25c meal in the city Beds 2Sc and SOc All outside rooms. Board and lodge $6. per week One block from depot m Only house in the white help only t TRY OUR SERVICE 5 ? y (Continued on page I ) Fresh Vegetables are Scarce But we have just received nearly a a carload of canned goods. The goods are all standard brands and are this I season's Pack Asparagus Spinach Sweet Potatoes Pumpkins Suocotash Everything in Staple and fancy Can-J ned Goods f City Grocery and Bakery; LhCLACK.Prcp . PK0NE KAIN 75:l Preferred. Stock, Preferred Stock, Preferred Stock Preferred Stock Preferred Stock