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LIMBURGER, EMPIRE RBICK, RO QUEFORT. AND CREAM
CODFISH, HOLLAND HERRING, MA CKEEEL, GOLDEN BLOAKERS
FAWSOH BAOS.GR0CERIES Phone BlackM
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This, without doubt, , promises to
he a building year. There will be
$75,000 school nouse lmprovenvmts
The Federal building to cost $65,000
should be underway; the lot has been
purchased and the architect has been
working on the plane since last (all.
There . Is no doubt but what the $40,
000 sewer bonds will be floated and
with the thousands of dollars that
will be expended on our Btreets this
year, thore will be an unusual, de
mand for labor. La Grande Is going
to set a pace that few cities in East
ern Oregon con keep up with.
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Tha demand for apple , trees was
never i o great In the Grande Ronde
' yallo? i'B It la at present. The diffi
culty to get stock from thJ nurseries
is grer.t, tKe Remand being so great
all over the country that nursery
men have difficulty In keeping suffi
cient stock on hand to fill orders.
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The banauct to be given Evange
list Johnson in this city on Friday
evening Is assuming colossal" propor-
. i , i I V 1 .. . . O A A a Ant a
llOnS. K IB JMKJBIUIO . lUttl. UVU
will be required. This will, without
doubt, he the largest attended fea
t ture of the. kind ever attempted In
the Grande Ronde valley. ; V
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If you have not already registered
It may cause you much trouble on
election day to be sworn In. ; It Is
", not 1 always convenient to find six
freeholders to act as witnesses. Again
witnesses become Impatient with ev
en neighbors who Blmply put off from
day to day what they know to b
.-. their duty. ' .
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While the flrBt reports of the ca
lamlty that swept so many lives out
at Mace and Burke, .Idaho, were ex
aggerated, yet It was awful. Seven
teen funerals In La Grande In one
day would cast a gloom over the city
that woul( noe bo removed for maw
; days. .
?ji filed by iht niitif.n at large. A gen-'
.val holiday w?;3 declared and special J
patriotic programs were carried out j
by all of the ; chool children," ..":"v j
Trwlnv fa lha Titti mnlv.ra.n .f V I
signing the Texas State Declaration
of Independence, which was first, read
under a grove of live oaks in the yll
lai of Columbus on the banks of tie
Brazos river In 1836, , .
Under the Constitution Henry Smith
was appointed provisional governor,
and David G. Burnett became presi
dent ad interim. On July 20 1836 Prcs
Burnett issued his proclamation for
the first general election, to take
place on the first Monday In Sept
ember for the election of a president,
vice-president and the ' members of
congress under the new constitution,
which was also to be voted upon. The
proclamation closed by directing that
the first congress to be chosen should
assemble on Monday, the 3d of Oc-
ober, in the town of Columbia, Brait
orla county, on the immediate banks
of the Brazos! On the third of October
1836, the delegates assembled at Col
umbia and oganlzed the first congress
of the nation. . '
Sam Houston was president, M. B.
Lamar, vice-president;, R, A. Irwin,
secretary of state; Barnard E. Bee,
Barnard E. Bee, secretary of war; S.
Rhodes Fisher, secretary o fthe navy,
Mermucan Hunt, minister to the Un
ited States, J. H. Henderson Min
ister to England, Asbbell Smith, Sur
geon general, Asa Brlgham, treasur
er;,' Henry Smith, secretary of teh
treasury; Robert Baw, postmaster
general; Peter W. Grayson, attoorney
general;;, James Collingsworth,, chief
Jvstice of the supreme court; Shelby
Corzine, s James W. Robertson, R. M
Williamson and Benjamin C. Frank
lln, asoclate Justices; W. F. Gray
clerk; F. R. Lubbock, was controller
the .next year, with II . P. Bee as clerV
The total white 'population on that
day was leBS than 40,000, and there
were- many more Indians than white
people within the confines of what
nmv constitutes 'the ; state of Texas
Kven after these Indians murderer
white- people on Matagorda Bay niv
in the county of Vashlnertnn.! wW!
the populous regions which now con
fain such cities as this, Austin, Waco
Dallas, Sherman, Gainesville, Weath-
erford and Denlson was t ha regular
camping grounds of a savage tribe
of Indians,
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jaA.m i fifc mmti muni
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Adds OcalMal QnallUcs
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10 IEK JlOUil
ffc i Economizes Flcmv ?
Butter ana Eggs
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The only faking powder
Am Hftvni i.rnne LnuUa
ol Tartar, v. ';
.'a Alismtlo Lima Phosphate
THE GEORGE PALMER
1.000 FEET OF SXOW AT EELGIS
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" ';. A few more days like , yesterday
and today and the stores will be
thronged with shoppers for Bpring
goods. Spring trade has been much
later than usual. However, not a few
are preparing themselves for the
first warm sunny days.
Roosevelt continues , to have a
heat hold on the common people.
The mere mention of his name at a
gathering of business men In Minne
apolis yesterday brough forth great
applause.
President Fallleres of France
aeems to he afflicted with hookworm.
The call it "sleeping Blckness" in
JFrance, however. A . ' '
Elgin Still the Terminus.
' The Joseph train left Grande
about on time this morning with El
gin as the terminus again, it re
turned on the afternoon schedule.
Glenns Ferry, Idaho, Mar. 1. -Two
lives were lost when a bridge span
nlng Snake river went out here last
night. The people were on the
bridge when it was swept awayt The
river Is a raging torrent and has
done untold damage In this sectlou
of tho state. The Short Line Is hav
Ing great difficulty In getting its
trains through.
Caldwell Flooded.
Calwwell, Mar. 1. Main and Ar
thur streets became veritable rivers
last night when a break In the head
gate of the New York canal caused
the government officials to turn a
large head of water Into Indian creek
flooding Caldwell and Nampa. ' The
crests of the flood reached this city
about 7 o'clock last evening and was
so high that the water covered the
sidewalk in many places. On the
North side of Main street nearly ev
ery basement was flooded, while by
the use of coffer dams the water was
kept .out of many basement on the
South side. The waters Bpread out
below Caldwell and caused trouble
for the Short Line, delaying trains
for a few hours. The damage will
reach $100,000 .'
Improvement it Talonse.
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
We Solicit Your Uidcrs for
SINGLES
RUBBEROIP ROOFING .
DEADENiNG FELT
BUILDING PAPER
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Week Beginning February 14
ualled Vaudeville Al
ways
Uneq
Something
Professor Horn and
( Wis Educated Dogs and Monkeys
The Christies in--- s
. i A Comical Musical Act "Going to the foil" !
f Kenneth Carpy V
22LlT in illistrated songs V
Pictures Change 3 times each Week
We Always Have the fiesle Don't Show
Two Shows evetyevemng. Cccts open it 7:15 and i:45
Admission 10c and 20c. Msfinee Wednesday and Satur
day, Admission 5c and 10c t
Don't Miss This. Show
Canyon creek have created a torrent
an dthe water today reached the sum
mit of the debris of the avalanche aj.
Mace and Burke and the water Is
eating Its way through the snow and
going Into the valley. The weather
is Ideal for slides. People of the min
ing towns are already seeking for
plates of greater safety. Streets of
Mace, Burke and Wallace are raging
torrents this afternoon. t
.. Worst Flood In II trior?
Lewlston, Idaho, Mar. 2. Reports
from various points In the Inland
towns show the country Is In the
grasp of the worst flood In the his
tory of the country. Railroads atjd
wagon bridges have been carried
away, telegraph and telephone ser
vise is suspended and there is 1 i H -hope
of resumption of railroad ser
vice for three days. Towns are Iri
undated and families driven from
their homes. The existence of whole
families In mountain districts have
been threatened, and several lives
nave already been lost and damage Is
already $500,000. Nez Perce, Peck
and Mohler have suffered the most
Mohler was practically swept out of
existence and f"eck is threatened.
StUes is submerged. Reports on the
farmers telephone lines Bay that sev
eral buildings have collapsed at Col
fat and several people killed.
store on Adams Avenue, La Grande,
Oregon, together with proper vouch
ers, within six months from the dat)
jf the first pul'.icatlon hereof.
Dated this 2d day of February, 1910.
JAMES G. SNODGRASS,
Administrator of the estate of Nick
Armoas, deceased.
Cochran & ' Cochran, Attorneys for
Administrator. 2-U-r4-ll.
. ' ' Bargains In Real Estate.
NO. 1. 157 acres Sanarldge land,
near. Imbler; ' a good five room
house, barms and other out build
Ings. 10 acres good orchard of
which 8 is in good bearing; SO
acres In fall wheat, 10 acres in hay,
balance all good grain or potato
land, all under good fence, one mile
from the town of Imbler, 1-2 mile
from school. About 11000.00 worth
household goods and
goes with the
t $16,956. Easy
Ihe
savin v" yrtaaaatggsEa '
on
Go to the Oreg on Roeming and Bearding
House For Kewly Furnished Fecrts
Dining Room in Correction
Rates Reasonable
MRS. 6. E.M00R, Prop.
fit nearly ne
farm to!-'
place -v '
tenet.
No .-
Only Three Missing;
Coeur D'Alene. Mar. 2. According
to the latest estimates every ont hn
been found or accounted for except
three Italian laborers on the North
ern Pacific work train which wns
hurled tnto the creek by the slide n
the recent disaster there.
Pullman. Wash, Mar. l.The Pa-
Texas Independence Pay louse is receding and work of repalr-
"tinnatnn. March 2 Texa3 Independ i lng the damnge has begun. The to-
ence day wns obseived today In all of j tal loss will reach $50,000. No lives
the cities and "towns from the Culf were lost. All traffic is Btill tied up.
to the Panhandle and from Texarkana ; BnrVe Stiwts Flooded
n n Pno. but with little less enthus- i Coeur D'Alene, Mar. 2. Melting ice
Jasm than the Fourth of July is cele and snow on the precipitous Bides oi
Administrator's Xotlce
Notice Is horeby given that the nn
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate . of Nick Ar
moas, deceased, by the County Court
of Union County, Oregon, and all hav
lng claims tgainst the said estate
are hereby required to present the
same to me as admlnltsrator at my
jlles .
' a- cultlvat
.' .v. ,V good bafn ;
av, 'v.; , .u. (tidings. A
. .i-; , tu.iy orchard, 60 cre ..
ind timothy hay, good wa
? 'jght R. P. D. by the door
. of a mile from school. About
400 worth of personal property
goes with the place at the price of
tf.400,00.
No. 3. 20 acres adjolalag the above
tract; splendid land wen adapted
to trait growing or amything else.
, 4 small house and under fence.
, Price $1300.00.
No. 4.-40 acres, T miles from La
- Grande. Good new 5-room house,
good barn and other outbuilding.
Two good living springs, and a
stream of water for Irrigation; all
under good cultivation. R. P. D.
by the door. ' Telephone line. Price
tl.000.fi.
Na 8. 151 1-J acres near the Con
rely ware honsee, all in fall wheat
and alfalfa hay; good tmprove-
TEents. It sold at once cai be por-
haaed for t'v
GEORGE PALMER, Pres.
W. L. BRFNHni tc , ft
LA GRANDE NATIONAL ANK
OF LA GRANDE,0REG0N
United States Depository
Capital and Surplus-$180,000.00
F.J. IlQlrpef
W. J. Church
IDIRECTORS
George Palmer C. r Pt
G. L. Cleaver
F. M. Rvrkf
. y. Meyers W. L. Brenholts
W. M.PIerce
With our ample resources and facilities we can ren
der you efficient service and handle your business
to your entire satisfaction
well:
No. 6. A modern B-room house and
lot 60x120, in a good location and
os cash terms tor $2200.00.
Na 7. Two lots on Fourth street, 4
room bouse, small barn, city water
and good weiL Can be sold on the
Installment plan for 1700.04.
Na t. For 1775.0, one of the best
bonses In Old Town; 7-roora bouse,
stone foundation. Two lots, a snap
It takea at awea.
No. .Three room boose aad one lot
ca Jefferson st Horns tarnished.
; wood shed oa the alley,
Si! lor the rarw I .
vn price ei ism.
N-10.-AflTerMmbl1ckin
house, barn wood rted. two lota,
an fenced tor fcOOA.oo,
"a ll-A ton room cottage on -o-
and wood shed. On easy terms at
theremarkably low prlca cf H40t.
I will be pleased to show yea any
of the above bargains at aay time,
whether yoa bay or a4.
Toars rattectfaUr; ; ';.
C J. BLACK, the Real Rstata Kaa,
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