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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1909
NUMBER 253
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BREAK GROUND NEXT MONDAY MORNING.
Ground will be broken on the Beaver Creek
Project next Monday morning when the nue
clus of an army of 250 men will cast the first
shovelful of dirt that will inaugurate construe
tion of the Beaver Creek project for the city of
La, Grande. The fiist division of laborers will
be partly foreigners, but every white man
that shows his face for employment will be
hired and when the grand total of men "on the
front is sufficient to warrant the release of the
foreigners, the latter class will be disposed of.
The white men will be housed in separate camps
and boarded by Engineer Dutch, while the
foreigners will take in their own supplies and
establish camps of their own. Ground will be
broken at the" intake and construction of the
ditches will run toward La Grande.
BPEII OFFICE
UIICLE SID TO
ClffliER
TAFT WANTS A BIG
CHANGE MADE
BETTER GRIP OH RAILROADS
CONFERENCE TO HAKE CHAVGES
IN NE.4R FUTURE.
0 1 SS CADETS
FOR Hit
TAFT PUTS LID
PRACTICE
ON
BITCH TO BIKE MS OWN
EXCLUSIVELY.
MEN
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usually the case, would mean the
slipping by of many dollars to local
businessmen.
This, office will be established Just
as soon as he returns from his pres
ent trip over the pipe line, which
will likely be next Saturday.
He and Mr. Plckler took their de
parture this afternoon to complete
the inspection of the line.
Throws Supply Money to La Grande
By Bfs Boarding Policies.
Engineer Dutch, who has under his
supervision the construction of the
Beaver Creek project, will open pri
vate offices In the La Grande National
lank building facing on Elm street,
and from there will transact business
In connection with the rapid progress
of the project. He will hire all the
white men coming to him for work,
and the other voluminlous amount of
business, will be transacted directly
from that office.
He has undertaken to board all his
white employes himself, being actu-,
ated with a spirit of fulfilling his
contract with the city that all sup
plies : and men be secured in La
Grnde, where such is possible. Sub-
TO ESTABLISH NtW OEPARTMESTS
Inter-state Commerce Commission to
be Believed. "
Valuable Horse Found.
Mrs. Duncan McDonald Is rejoic
ing over the recovery of her fine driv
ing horse Greg which was tured outln
pasture last spring and along with
a saddle horse that was on the place,
strayed off. A few days after, he
and strayed off. A few days after he
outskirts of Baker City, there all
trace of him was lost, until finally a
few days ago through the efforts of
local officials he was found on Burnt
river.
NUMBERS 17 AND 18.
Numbers 17 and 18 will be the cog
nomen officially placed on the two
new passenger trains to be put on
between Portland and Chicago over
the 0? R. & N. on August 24, accord
Ing to local railroad men.
NE
AR-B
A PROB
EER
LEM
Last night's council meeting proved
a strenuous session. The founda
tion work for the proposed pavement
of our streets was laid by the filling
and acceptance of the report of the
committee fixing the benefit such im
provement will result to property
within the proposed districts. After
the ten days notice has been given,
steps will be taken to Improve the
property, and the cost of improve
ments will be assessed to the abut
ting property and may be paid in
cash or improvement bonds to run
10 years with annual payments.
Under the head of granting near
beer licenses came the real discuss
ion of the evening. A resolution
passed a few weeks ago limited the
number of licenses to six and on
the recorder's table were 13 applica
tions. Councilman Williamson then ad
dressed the council, stating that he
understood that. many of the pro
prietors of soft drink establish
ments held government licenses and
VICTIM WAS A SUTTON IAD
SUDDEN ,REV1YAL OF .THE
FAIR. WAS SURPRISING.
AF.
WASHINGTON'. Aug.- 19 Presi
dent Taft Is contemplating many
changes In the inter-state commerce
law. A conference will be held In
New York within two weeks, and
several contempated changes in the
Sherman anti-trust law will be taken
up then.
President Taft plans an effect've
government supervision of railroads,
and plans to relieve the lnter-state
commerce commission of many bur
den f and restrictions.
He has also planned to establish
bureaus in department of commerce
and labor, these bureaus to have Jur
isdiction over all questions of labor
administration, safety appliincea
and employes laws. They will also
have power to settle minor differ
ences between shippers and raliroals
and control filing of rates to Inves
tigate complaints.
SEVEN STUDENTS WEflE 'CANNED1'
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Decisive And Summary Action Ta
' ken In West Point Basing.
wesh'uint, Aug. 19. Seven ca
dets were dismissed from the mili
tary academy today by order of Presi
dent Taft in connection with the
Sutton hazlrig. Those dismissed are:
J. II. Booker, Georgia; Charles G. W.
Hooker, ifyssourl; Early Dunmore,
New York; Chauncey Delter, West
Virginia; Gordon Leferve, Virginia;
Albert Crane, Iowa and Jacob Fort
ner, Alabama.
The summary action dl7ulges that
Taft will not tolerate a return to the
former practices indulged In at na
tion's, army school. The mere fact
the hazers had for their victim a
man related to the Button's In the
naval inquiry , makes the Instance
even more Interesting.
The hazing took place some time
ago, but was revived this morning,
when It was rumored that Taft was
about to take summary action.
TIME TO FILE OBJECTIONS HAS ARRIVED.
By September first, all objections against
paving Adams avenue and Depot streets from
the points where the paving "will cease and on
out to the county macadam roads, must be filed
with the city, officials, according to steps taken
bv the city council last evening. The report
of .the council committee which was published
in the Observer yesterday, was last evening
adopted and notices to property owners order
ed. This requires ten days time, and at the
expiration of that'period, further steps toward
paving can be carried out. - Notices will be
published in the city, papers, informing the
owners of the intended improvements. Objec
t ions must be made by property owners before
the time stipulated to'carry any weight against
the prompt advance of paving. Paved streets
will soon be a reality. ,
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MISS BAULT DEAD.
Funeral. of Popular Young Lady Will
be Held Tomorrow.
mrcMPUP nimrc
nioiuno uuiilo
Miss Alta Pearl, daughter of Mr.
and MrsV J. 1 Bault of North La
Grande, died last night as a result of
appendicitis. She was taken sud
denly sick two weeks ago Wednesday
and was operated upon Friday. Ev
erything possible was done that could
be, but the disease baffled all skill.
Alta was a bright cheerful girl of
nineteen, whose friends were only
limited by her acquaintance. She
leaves beside her parents a sister,
Mrs. Edna Myrlck, and two brothers,
Charles H. and Roy M., all of this
city. The funeral will take place
tomorrow from the Christian church
at 2:30. the interment In the Ma
I sonic cemetery. The family have the
! avmnofrhv nf a larirA rfrrlA nf frlnnria
In their unexpected and sudden be
reavement.
SEEKING PARDON
FOR OFFER
Judiciary committee, Councilmen An
drews and - Sneak recommended the
licenses be granted, and Councilmen
Monroe's minority report recom
mended that licenses be granted to
all applicants not holding govern
ment licenses. The minority report
was ruled out of order by Chairman
Meyers. Councilman Sheak stated
.that he personally knew that all of
of the applicants with one exception
did not, and possibly the one excep
tion, L. Remillard did not. Upon
this, assurance licenses vre granted
to Grant Lincoln, B. F. Wade, Juliui
Fisher, Chris Wright, Ulrich LoUes
and Earnest Thorson.
City Attorney J. F. Baker then
phoned to Mr. Remillard, asking him
If he held a government license, he
replied he did and the city attorney
visited his place of business and upon
his return reported that the license
for one year had been taken out oi
July last. The application of Mr.
Remillard was then laid on the table.
The application of Robert Wilkin-
BUSINESSMEN GENERALLY SIGN
THE PETITION.
Reports From Salem Say Young Man
is Suffering Much.
A petition is being circulated and
generally signed by the business men
and friends to pardon James Officers,
now serving a two year sentence in the
penitentiary at Salem. Officer was sent
up from here several months ago on a
larceny charge. The report conuis
from the penitentiary that he is in
poor health and the confinement is
telling on him considerably. He lias
made a very model prisoner and the
friends and officials think that he ht.s
received sufficient punishment. He al
so owed several bills to the various
merchants here when he was con-
FEW OBJECTIONS
ARE T
ABOUT ONE IN SIX ADVERSE TO
PAVING.
FOUR S. P. ENGINES HERE.
Four Southern Pacific engines of ihe
1700 class arrived here last night and
this morning to relieve the cry for
power until new engines can reach
here. No. 1733 made Its first trip out
of here as helper for No. 7 this morn
lng. The engines resembles the O. R.
& N. compounds being about the same
size and power. , t
Sceptical Will be Convinced by First
Experiment.
There will be little or no objection
to paving Adams avenue Is the opin
ion of councilmen and businessmen In
general. There are a few, It must
be admitted, who are adverse to the
! improvement, but that history will
repeat itself here, Is another belief
to which many have hitched them
selves. A big majority of the abut
ting property owners are anxious to
have the matter proceed as rapidly
as possible, and , in many instances,
men have signified their intentions of
urging additional expansion of im
provement districts.
Those who have kept close touch
ing his approval or is openly set
against It The farseeing element
predicts that It will only be a mat
ter of convincing the sceptical by
actual experiment.
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DAVID BAY RETIRED FROM SER
VICE IN SECOND WARD.
No Effort Made to. Select Successor t
Retired Councilman.
Councilman David Bay at the meet- -
lng of the city council last night ten
dered bis resignation as councilman of
the second ward and It was accepted.
No attempt was made to choose his
successor last night.
In the retirement of Mr. Bay, the
city loses one of its most experienced
city officials. No man has served the
clty as many years as mayor and.
councilman as Mr. Bay, and no one
has been more faithful to the Interests
of the city than he. His reason for
resigning was that he did not have the
necessary time to devote to the city's
Interests that he should, without sacri
ficing his personal business. Mr. Bay
had had this under consideration for
several months, but his fellow mem
bers of the council were loth to lose
him.'' .';. ::y-'..
victed. but all of these have been pp.ld
and he will come out of the pen out of the feeling among business men,
of debt The petition Is being eigne 1 j affirm that one in six of the property
quite liberally. It Is being circulated ! owners along the path of the lm
by his uncle, Lon Davis, of Enterprise, j provementa, la either reticent in giv-
under the local option law this was son was denied, owing to the fact
considered prima facia evidence that that he had been convicted of vlola
the holders thereof sold Intoxicant ( ting the city ordinance and his for
beverages and that he was not In mer licenses was revoked,
favor of the city granting and near By the expression of the council
lor license to anyone holding a gov- men last night, If carried out, It Is
ernment license. Councilmen Bolton clear that in the future no near beer
and Munroe held similar views. The licenses will be granted to holders
11 or 12 applications were refered to of government licenses,
the Judiciary committee, after the j Councilman Williamson was ap
councll had revoked the limiting reso- pointed chairman of the water com
lution. mtttee to mi the vacancy caused by
Two reports were returned by the the resignation of Councilman Bay.
BAKER WANTS 105
GOOD SEATS
One hundred and five Tabernacle
concert seats were reserved by tele
phone this morning from Baker City,
and with the huge batch of seat or
ders, came the news that Baker City
has chartered a special train to car
ry citizens from that city to La
Grande the night on which the choir
from Salt Lake is to he here. They
were not satisfied with the low rate
question and went after a special
train which they got after having se
cured 105 to make the trip, with
probability of still more . coming.
With this sweeping reservatloa
from the charts there are few choice
seats left and unless the local peo
ple grab at the chances, outsiders
will take up all the desirable seti
In the big auditorium. The choir !
attracting unusual attention from all
parts of Eastern Oregon.
Social Tonight ;
Meet this evening at the Lawn so
cial at the home of C. P. Newlln, 803
Main avenue.
WAIT HERE FOR lOCIt FRIENDS I USE OUR PUBLIC TELEPHONE
THE HOME OF QUALITY
OUR CONSTANT EFFORT IS T O MAKE THIS A STORE WHERE
THE IDEA OF QUALITY IS AT ALL TIMES PARAMOUNT.
IN SOME LINES OF BUSINESS THERE MAY BE GOOD REASON
FOR HAVING A VARIETY OF GRADES NOT SO IX THE DRUG
LINE. WHEN DRUGS ARE NEEDED ONLY THE BEST WILL
DO. ANYTHING LESS THAN THE BEST IS DANGEROUS.
WE CARRY THIS PRINCIPLE OF QUALITY THROUGHOUT
OUR ENTIRE STOCK. IN S0MK LINES, LIKE BRUSHES, WE
CARRY THE FINER GRADES WHICH CANNOT BE FOUND IN
THE ORDINARY STORE.
NEWLIN DRUG COMPANY
LA GRANDE, ORE.
LEAVE TOUR PACKAGES TO BE WE DELIVER FREE TO ANY
CALLED FOB PAST OF THE CITY.
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