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LA GRANDE EVENING. OBSERVER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1910 OOO. lid (J M Tailor n Ooo coo- L SPANGLER, Mgr; C BAKER. Prop. oool A Now DGpartmeht. We have for the benefit of the com mercial and busihesmanl opened a nighl shop. Ve vrill call ' for clothes, clean and press and deliver Aem while you steep. Last call for clothes '9.30 P. fit., delivery not later than m. M. B 1118 Adams Ave: Phone Main 735 1 :" NOW IN STOCK. J. T. SCOTT ; Kertzman, Steinway, Wellington, and Ludwig Piano. sSPEGIAL RATES FOR THE Portland Rose Festival June 6th 11th to Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co of One and One-third Fare FROM flit POINTS IH : iJZ'Z-'Z Oregon, Washinjgon 1 Idaho Sale Dates: From Pendleton and all stations west thereof,, in Oregon including branches :; 7 June 6th, 8th and 1 0th. From all other stations : June 6th and 8th. Final return lim it,' June 15th. ' '777: ''77 For further, particulars as to rates, eta, - apply to any 0. R. &N Agent or to - , - 7W General Passenger Agent, Portland Ore. Prepared Stock Japan Tea Full 16-oz. package. 50c Full 8-oz. package. .25c i Give this brand a trial Royal Grocery AND Bafferv New Jewelry " I am daily receiving the latest desifmV in Spring and Summer Jewelry, which when added to my already large stock will give, my patrons the best selection of any store in Eastern Oregon. ? You can have your watch repaired in first-class shape for a less price that you can have it spoiled for elsewhere. ;;'v ;.. :y , I have fitted eyes for twenty years and have been located here permanently for, that time. .You can ask any of my customers and they, will tell you my glasses give perfect satisfaction. ; ,' Everything that leaves this store is guaranteed to give you sat isfaction. : : 1 II O La Grande's I 11. rcdie, od,u,V HALTED MILE with egg ? any flavor 77' ; A Meal in One Glass ZZZ''ZyZ:'Zr : Setter's 7 '7 Gonfectionery Store u I A, JZj)- jomN m. ha rTana 0l7yf? WNOLl HOLMS If . f V?' " v v w KEEP GLEAN f r- . . , ; , A Towel rack and a cake of soap, and ererj day a clean Boiler Towel, for $1.00 a month. , Phone us about it. Both Phones. . Cherry's New Laundry 7 ; "Best by test" HENDRICKS & HALL 11 Painters; paper hang ers, decorators. Esti mates, furnished free. GfdHe Citnreru Ui,AXmm Opposite Land Office -K Pnone Ind- H31 By WALTON WILLIAMS. , HEN Charles Evans Hughes takes his place on the Unit ed States supreme court bench on Oct 10 h will be the youngest member , of the court. Governor Hughes Is forty-eight years old. and the youngest member next to him, Justice Moody, Is eight years bis senior. Of the other members of our highest judicial tribunal Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan are each seventy-seven, or nearly thirty : years older than . Hughes. , Justice Holmes Is slxty-nlne, Justice McKeuna sixty-seven, .Justice Lurtou slxty-slx, Justice White slxty-flye and Justice Day sixty-one. The average ago of the Jus tices, including Hughes, will thus be a trifle over slxty-flve years, or sev enteen years older than the governor himself. ; Justice ; Hughes . will, have twenty-two years to serve before he reaches the age of voluntary retlre raect, and If hn lives to the age of Marshall, Tiuey, Field and others of the great justices of the past he will be on the bench over thirty years, or till very nearly the middle of the twentieth century, . Should Justice Moody recover his heulth aud take his place at the be ginning of the October term of court there will be a full bench for the first time in more than' a year. Owing to Moody's illness and the deaths of Jus tices reckham and Brewer the Court has met during the. present season often with only seven members and sometimes with only six. Tho supreme court that convenes in October will be a distinguished body Wide from Its own peculiar fame. Among Its members will be three for mer cabinet officers, McKenna, pny and Moody; one former United States senator. White; one noted law writer and , chief Justlqe of the Mflssaclau setts court, Holmes; one circuit judge" that served with President Taft, Lur ton; one former governor of the Em pire State and presidential possibility; Hughes, and two white haired jurists who have gained fame through long service in the supreme court Itself, Fuller and. Harlan. Geographically there will be two members from Mas sachusetts and one each from New York, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennes see,' Louisiana and California. Po litically the court will , stand six Re publicans and three Democrats. Two of the. Justices, White and Lurton, were soldiers In the Confederate army, and two more, Harlan and Holmes, fought in the Union army.. ' Graduated at Thirteen. . Governor Hughes is a son of a Bap tist minister. From the time of his birth in Glens Falls, N. I on April 11, 1802. until his father was called to New York city from Newark, N. J about .twelve years later, the family was more or less on the move. ' His mother had been a schoolteacher be fore her marriage, and, realizing the disadvantages that a child labors un der In getting an education first at this school and then at that, she decided to teach the boy JjerSfLlf." W: M' 774i N7 l-.- T iMIV '-in r J ; ... I MORA CE K I VRTOFT HUGHES' RECORD ON PUB LIC QUESTIONS. Vetoed bill providing- (or two cent faro on the railroadi of the ette on the ground that paaease of the measure would prove conflac&tory to eome of the entailer rail wave. . -. ' Brought about paaaage of bills providing for creation of the public service commlgslons. Vetoed the Coney Island five cent fare bill on the theory that the matter was one for the public erv ' Ice commission to pass upon. Drafted the new Insurance laws,' following the Investigation of 1906, which he as counsel conducted. i Fought for and obtained toe pas sage of the antt race track betting bills. 1 Caused appointment of committee to Investigate Wall street specula- ttion, which resulted In a clean bill of health for the Stock Exchange. ' (i 1 Advocated the adoption of a sys- tern of direct primaries. . . nouuutuieiiuau uitti mo legislature reject the proposed Income : tax amendment because of objection to phraseology rather than principle Involved. 1 ; 1 Advocated legislation placing tel ephone and. telegraph companies under jurisdiction of public service commissions, r v In the one year that he went to pub lic school In Newark and' during his brief public school career in New York, ending with his graduation at the age of thirteen,, he showed a proficiency beyond hlj years In mathematics and a" memory for flares that proved as tonishing to his teachers.' ; While at Colgate university (then Madison) and later on at Browu univ arslty, where he graduated in 1881, ho was frequently Interpreter of higher mathemntlcs for his fellow students. ;-' Governor Hughes took pp the study of law while a student at Brown uni versity. r After leaving Brown Mr. Hughes ' became . a teacher at Delhi, N. Y, and between the hours when he was teaching Greek and mathematics studied law at an ofSce there. As a clerk he took particular delight In Illu minating the accounts of obscuration that fell to his lot, and in the early years of his practice it Was frequently his habit to seek amusement in solv ing mathematical rebuses aud puzzles and In inventing and solving problems. After a year at Delhi Mr. Hughes decided that the only proper place to study law was at a law school, and he entered the Columbia Law school in 1882 at the age of twenty. Two yeas later he was graduated, taking a fel lowship In his senior year, which en titled him to conduct a quiz for three yenrs at a salary of $500 a year. This was of great assistance to the embryo lawyer,' just at the threshold of his ca reer, and he also conducted a private quiz" on his own account at the same time while he was getting started in a law otBce. ' . ; Mr. Hughes first had a desk in the law office of General Stewart L. Wood ford, who' was then United States at torney, and a short time later entered the law office of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower of New York city. HARL$ E.HUGHES His Pint Case, While a clerk with this firm Mr. Hughes got his .'first case and after twelve months of hard work woo a de cision, but no great financial reward. It was shortly after this, to 1887, that he became a member of the firm which was then known as Carter, Hughes & Cravath. Mr. Hughes had always had a strong Inclination toward teaching, and In 1891 he became a member of the law faculty of Cornell university, remain ing there for. two years.. He then re entered the law firm and In 1905 be came the active head, Mr. Carter hav ing died, of Hughes, Rounds & Bchur man. - ,:;, ,v, ; It was in this same year, that Mr. Hughes first came . prominently into the public eye, when he was made counsel for the legislative commission that investigated the cost 'of gaa la New York city. The idea of accepting the position did not appeal; to Mr. Hughes, as he had always kept to' a strictly private pracUce'. : - In thla gas investigation Hughes set a new standard for work of the kind. His grasp of technical detail was amaa ing to the specially trained men who represented the gas companies, and his ability to extract facts . essential to the commission was extraordinary. : ' Famed as aa Investigator, So tboroush vas bis work in the gas investigation that he was generally re garded as the only candidate when the Arrastronj. com rate Ion,, niet. to choose counsel for the insurance Investiga tion., Mr. Hughes conducted the In vestigation of tbe lusurnnce companies! with thesaiiie esactitude'of detail that had characterized his work in the gas investigation and left the state stag gered by the results accomplished. By the time Mr. Hughes had con ducted the gas and insurance investi gations his fame as an investigator had spread abroad, and Attorney Gen eral Moody appointed him counsel for tne rederal investigation Into the busi ness of the coal carrying railroads with ' relation to" their ownership of coal properties. The appointment was offered to. Mr. Hughes and Alexander Simpson, Jr., and this work was as thorough as that of Mr. Hughes in the gas and Insurance Investigations. Then came the uominutlon that led to Mr. nughes'.elettion us governor of New York in 190(1. Mr. Hughes, gets his powers of en durance primarily from an ancestry of Welsh, Scotch and Irish. Ills fa ther came of Welsh and Scotch stock and his mother of Scotch and Irish. He has developed the heritage, how ever, by the practice of a theory In which he is a firm believer. He holds that under the right conditions a man cannot overwork his brain, lie says a well organized and developed brain Is like the muscle of a highly trained athlete, which Is only bettered by con stant hnrd work. "Exercise the brain" is one of his maxims,, and he lives up to it. ' '