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the dirt out of clothes. It does not
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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. .
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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 :
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C. Laundry
Daily Observer, 65c per Month
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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
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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.
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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
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Laundry VVoik:
ROAL BAKERY f
You want yourt aWc
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linen and other
U in dry ork dene J
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I. excepionally r Ice for
this occasion. Send
It early - - - - -
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WE WILL CERTAINLY,
PLEASE YOU Z
CHERRY'S NEW
LAUUDRYi
BOTH PHONES
BLUE MOUNTAIN HOUSE
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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
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Only house in the
white help only t
TRY OUR SERVICE 5
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(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,
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