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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1910)
VAQi:rom LA QllASDh fclVllSLM ViS.K fctt. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1910. THE OBSERVER Bruce Dehius, urt4 tt tie potVvJLc at L Ur?ide grascKirric ratksl D2y, single copy,,. ........... tc Tils iyer win cue pt!is at ar 1 M.pnrixt wver a eom de puzae. f'.se4 rtid will be revised ub fset t tt discretion of tbe e&ior. Rete Iga yor articiea asa Mr JjrSOBT TIUfD. It is such events as tbe Elks Me morial amices of yesterday that causes one to bait for a moment and tbiak of the past; of tbe friends who Lave crossed otr; of tbe events that fcav dtft both kindly and unkind f with each Individual la years gone tr. Ia C, E. Cochran's eulogy on the departed Elk a aermon marked every Dee; tbtrs waa pathos la erery ut terance, yet withal there was nothing all Elks b praised every man for his true worth, admitting bis faulta and enumerating Ufa virtue. When th. speaker said, "And were it la my power fr grasp the silver cord and poll the' heavy curtain that separ ates this wcld from tbe world where in our departed brothers dell 1 think I should see the satisfaction upon their faces when they , realljed down In the valley we who art still la flesh and blood are holding: ser tices fn their honor." ; ,; This was but one of the many beau. tiful and touching things in the eul ogy and those who missed bearing It have 'reason for regret. No matter bow brilliant a man may be there are only a few times when bis mind will, run In a channel to produce thought so thoroughly out of the or dlnary and' so intensely . pure.. And then he Is prompted by sincere love and devotion for both bis fellowmen who hav passed away and also for those with whom he associates dally. WHY I'SIOS MAY. WIN THE I5STI TUTIOX. Thore Is no cause for cessation In the tight for the state hospital , for the Insane; JCot. all, for Union's chances nc:fMz tr our way of thinking are hotter now, than ever. It is ,.. now thoroughly understood that the locating hoard will gather all Information pertaining to the three possible locations. In doing so nothing will be overlooked. Favor able points will be , even the ..land leaps upon which poor demented hu mans will be compelled to gaze tak en, into consideration. All of which means water on Union's wheel, for who can Imagine the placing of an Insane hospital In a place where na ture is seldom seen In green clothes T Th Jives of the poor Inmates are tor tured st best and why force them to FEED AND FUEL 60BCE riLVZE, rBa. f. J. HOLMES, Tic I'res. Yf, U BBMHOLTS, kV Ck. E1KL ZUSDEU U Ass't Cfthb, r.L,KEYEBStCaskIer. La Grande National Bank of La Grande, Oregon United Stages Depository Ciptisl, Surplus and Undivided. Prohts $200,000.00 DI SECTORS. CEOCGE fiLMIB, VT, L..BSEHH0LTS w, i, encscu r. l. xlt ebs 7. J. HOLIES Yf. JLHECCE YTlth esr srapls resources and facilities we eaa rtnacr jroa effl cleat lenlea ai4 kaidli four iaslaesi to your catlre latlsfacUon. l.v.k . i;y L!'?s tx.S h strfeiiis of w4r? -" An 7 l'xation ct'je-jn around felon wVA f.-af ure lAthzant furrmiit'Lf' aol a d-el.'sVfjl ian.dscsre. Jt'il5 iL&uTh laud la yhz'T tzA of a uiliry that products frwai ' the Institution laid wHl gtf a loiig way toward feed ing those enrolled tiere. Tbe fact tbit rar5t alone Is to be corj!dr:d Is this traceactSon Increas ht Union's cbancs ten fold. JEXTXETIIJ TOCSBIUIE5. TLe tiiresbermea are coming. Oh, bo. Some of the best fellows on eartfi ia that bunch. They will cot want any cut glass or band painted china on tbo banquet table, but they will be able to handle a properly prepared roast, at ' the same time discussing what is best for those who separate the grain from the chaff, and turn the wbeat Into a marketable product. Just how many of these hardy mn will be here we do not know and that does cot matter so much, for there will be enough to make La Grande know they have been bere. Our duty as a city is to see that they want for nothing. If they choose to play tiddle-dew1nks, why tlddle-de-wings go, but on the other hand If they would rather have a sparring match let's hava It They are among the good fellows of this earth and La Grand is going to take care of them A 4hir mriit Mmmli M mm tfc bt convention city In Eastern Ore- f- -' Building of homes In La Grande la something that should never t neg lected another season. It is very un fortunate when people are forced to leave a community because they can not get places to house them. Es pecially when If rge lumber mills are at our vwry door. , Honestly, that census report on the state waa a hard blow. Dut Oregon will survive it and come forth Strong er than ever shortly.' Here's hoping Jen- Rusk will land that speakership, for ha Is am ply able to care for It ; M' , ,- JI ' Indian 6wlmmers. Some of the Indians of South Ameri ca are powerful swimmers and ' use tbe stroke popularly known as the "Australian crawl," which, however, they discovered for themselves. The Glowworm, ' Despite the fact science bus been purrllng over tbe problem for many yenm cxperlmi'uting and aualyzlng and dlHWtiiiK-the glowworm's secret Is still unsolved. . tVe know very little more about if ni'yttterious lamp-phys-lologle light 'the experts call it-tnnn did our forrfuthci'H. Even l(u purpose is still bidden. A ' '''.-' Chlvslry. Chivalry Is from chevalier and sim ply means a horwmun. originally uswd to distinguish one who rode from one who weut to tbe wars afoot ' , Spider Silk. Size for size, a thread of snider silk Is tougher tbnn a bar of steel. An ordinary thread will bear a weight of three grains. This Is as strong again as a steel thread of tbe same thick ness. - GrandeRonde'CashCo PHONE, MAIN 6 C C FEIUJiGTOJf tT. D. CXEIYER F. K.BYCIT A Sacrifice tr ANDREW C EVfING 0Frrtffbt SI9. ivy America Jrs 1 left Bt. Frtnibcrg is tbe aft er gooa. VCbea tbe guard closed the 6a of tie compartojict 1 was la 1 enticed a num sitting oppociie me glre a sigb of relief, tm. be coatinaed to look orrt tbe wiadow, as be bad beea doing, apparetttiy dreading to see' something or some one. Tbe train stored out wiLh acceleratlsg ntotkm. and the fast er It rolled tbe more relieved looked lay fellow passenger. Suddenly I beard him glvt a smotb ered cry, and. following tbe direction of bis eyes. I saw a man running like a deer to catch the train, Tbe pas senger put bis bead out tbe window to sea tbe end of the race, drew ft la and gasped: ' ' v "MyGodr Did be catch tbe train r I asked. He Jumped on to tbe footboard of the last car." , : , r "My friend." I said. "I Judge that yon are a political refugee." "Why do yon think tbatr said the man, stiffening op. "The man wbo ran to catcb the train Is a government to2klaL His object U to arreat you." "Wbo are tou?" "An American." , , . "Ah! . Americans are onr , friend. a wui ten yoa. loot man. as you say. will arrest me, and 1 snail be sent to Siberia Help me!" "How can I do tbatr "We are not unlike tbe same height both light bair and beard, both wear glasses. Give me your traveling coat and yonr golf cap and put pn these Russian clothes. When the train stops an officer will come bore to arrest me. Bnt by that time it will be night I shall pretend to be asleep in my cor ner with tba collar of your coat pulled np about my face and your cap down OTer my eyes. You say. with a groan of despair, 'I am cangbt at last but 1 will not 11 v to go to tbe mines T While tbey are removing yon I shall wstcb for an opportunity to get awsy before they discover their mistake." When tbe scheme waa first proposed to me I bad not tbe remotest idea of perpetrating It But since it was an hour before tbe train stopped be bad that time to persuade me. I should have yielded, bnt I was, not sure that I would not suffer a long term of Im prisonment for interfering In the man's capture. Before we bad reach ed tbe station be bad promised If I would take bis place to see that the American minister was made aware of the matter, and aa tbe train slowed down, not being able Ao resist bis pa thetic appeals, I adopted bis plan. AH happened as be had predicted. As soon as tbe train stopped the coach door was thrown open and a lantern thrust Into the compartment. True to my promise. I cried out in Russian. "I am caugbt at last but I will not live to go to tbe mines!" I was Jerked out of tbe coach and hurried away. . What became of tbe "politlcar 1 did not. know. I was taken into tbe station, given a closer Inspection and the deception discover ed. By tbe next train I was taken back to St Petersburg and thrown Into prison. ' .The next morning I asked for writ ing materials, which were, given me, and wrote a note to the American min ister, stating that I was an American citizen In a Russian prison and asking his assistance. The day passed and beard nothing. A week, a month, went by. I gave up hope and cursed my self for a fool, ' One morning a young man came to see me. saying that be was from the embassy. I asked bin why be bad been so long in taking cognizance -of my oote. He replied tbat no note bad been received, but the very next day after my arrest tbe minister bad been in formed of all that bad happened. He- bad sines been trying to get tbe gov ernment to take the matter tip. I bad been twice moved from one prison to another, and each time tbe embassy had been Informed of my removal. In short my note to the minister had not been delivered, but some one had been keeping watch over me and Informing tbe minister of my condition. ' 'I After another month's hard work tbe embassy succeeded in securing my re lease on condition that I leave the country immediately. I was escorted over the line, wondering the while whether I had been a fool or a fine fellow. 1 had no sooner got. beyond the border than a rdan stepped up to me, and said. "I am to take you to tbe count" "Thanks, no. I don't want to go to any count . I've bad enough of this business." ; But he persuaded me and took me to a house where I was received by tbe man whom I had helped to escape. He rushed forward and gave me a bear hug and kissed me on both cheeks. YTben bis transports bad subsided be said: .. . "I kept my promise. The government tried to lose you. but my friends pre ' tented. After you Jeft me Jgoout '.t.- . m. fee' Now on Display, at Tliis Store Teddy Bears that growl. Esquimo Dolls that gay 'mamma' Dolls of Every Description- Dolls That Cry. EVERY DOLL IS UNBREAKABLE. PRICES, 50c to $1.25 Attractive Gifts for Older Folks .1 H J x i Y- sr i re. . - i-i k 'i. a . .... , . m . ; j fcci ui urns mc ah w gyo nppicciatcu muau find here an elegaot display of useful U tire family II P. S.-Select your Xmas Gifts now them for you and deliver them when f tb '-ar if tt eiiiiiwl. I havf h,-- -ere 'ever in , I tin a rwble. r5-i: and luilf my fortune Is yours... t "No.": 1 mild. "It fei Is no pix d ! have made nue naeriti.iMl ait that ror t't pay me for doing It." fcut I fonnd it ImjKissible to get rih of the count's gratitude. I went t Paris and had no sooner arrived tbnn a number or uussiin called on me. One offered me a box at the open. another tbe use of a bouse.. There wa nothiag I wished for that was not forthcoming. Some of the Largest Ever Struck .Were Found by Chance. : v; THE OLIVER MARTIN CHUNK. It Wat Turned Uo by a Min.r Who Wat Digging a Grave . For His Orewnsd Comrade A Starving Minor Unearthed the "Welcome Strang. r." Nowhere doe fortune Induljre) her love of the dramatic and the Henna tlonat more ftilly' than in' the , gold fields. ' r " '.' Take, for Instance. the story of ibe discovery ef the world famou. Blaincbe Barkley" nugget in the early day of Australian gold mining, wbkb xent'a thrill around the world. Sain uel Napier, a sailor, with bin brother Cbarlea and oue Robert Ambrose, their rook and genera) handy man. had been figging for gold for six months at Klngower. about forty utiles from Ben dlgo, without dWoreriug aa much of the preclouM metal as would pay their living expenses, when one August day, to tell tbe story In Napier's own words: "Wt had dug down about fourteen feet to the pipe clay, stratum and were shuffling around In the bottom of the shaft more dead, than alive from the beat Old Ambrose tit hja pipe and eaned against the side of the bole to rest Just then I struck something with my pick. I turned It up so tbe light could strike it, and. by Jlmlny, It was a chunk of gold as big as a bubbard sqnashr The nugget sold for 136.000. Among tbe thousands wbo docked to the Victorian gold fields In the early Bfties were two Cornish miners, John Deason and Richard Gates, wbo staked a claim oear tbe village of Mollaqu. They set to work with rigor; confident that In a few months thev would ha able to retire to their native Cornwall rich men, but their expectations were doomed to cruel disappointment Not only months, but .many years, passed and found them still as far removed from fortune aa at tbe beginning, and NUGGETS'-GF; GOLD r -S f -1 -J ml by 1SC9, fifteen year after" they began tbeir search for gold, tbey were re duced to-the last straita, Starvation stared them in tbe face. In despair tbe miner seized his pick sitd wandered away to the outskirts of the gold field, and as he. trmrlered, downcast and heavy, bean-u. ue no ticed a gleam of yellow in a rut toads by a peddler's cart. Lifting bis pick. with a few frantic blows he brought to light an enormous nugget, which, with all his strength, be could barely raise an Inch from the ground. The nugget, which was soon known the world over as the "Welcome Stranger." actually weighed two hundredweight and was sold for nearly $50,000. - - . And these were but a few of the many similar blocks of gold discovered In Australia under equally dramatic conditions While a native shepherd named Kerr was tending his sheep one day his attention was arrested by- a rellow rock projecting a few inches above the soil. In bis excitement at the discovery be ran to fetch his mas ter.' The rock was unearthed and proved to be a nugget of tvo hundred weight, from which 160 pounds of pure gold were extracted. . - ' ' A few years later another monster nugget made Its appearance at Balla rat A party of miners bad worked a claim to a depth of sixty yards when one of them struck with his pickax a hard, irregularly shaped mass, which on being unearthed proved to- be a block of almost pure gold twentj Inches long, a foot wide and seven inches deep. Its weight was almost one hundredweight and a quarter and Its value $4(5.625. It was the periodical discovery at Ballarat of these monster nuggets which first tired the blood of the en tire world In the faraway fifties. But even Ballarat has no other romance to rival that of the discovery of two huge nuggets wltbln a few days in tbe same claim. Tbe story runs tbat four miners bad worked their claim down to about sixty feet when one of them brought to light a nugget weighing nearly one hundredweight and worth $27,500. In their Joy at such a rich treasure trove the men abandoned tbe dig gings and took their nugget with them to England. They had scarcely left Ballarat when their successors In the claim, with almost the first stroke of a pick, turned over another nugget heav ier than the first and valued at mora than $35,000. " , Of all tbe romantic stories told of gold discoveries In California not one is more remarkable than that of which Oliver , Martin was the hero. For months ' Martin and a ' companion named Flower had . been prospecting for gold to no purpose. Worn out by hardships and half dead from starva tion, they were on the point of aban doning the quest In despair when fate administered her last crushing blow. Tbeywerg, overtaken by. a. terribla m, .j, m C''' j r1 -) c -j -" fm W m w 9- ---. V WW - "w -,mr - Billiken Art Doll 1 Norseman Dolls Woolly Dogs Chanticleer Dolls Dolls That Talk 1UU Will presents for the en- THt QUALITY SI ORE and we will store you want them. storm, la which Flower was drowned Martin, weak though be was. set to work to dig bis fallen comrade's grav at the foot of a tree and bad dug down barely two feet when his spado struck a hard., unyielding substance, which, to bls'amazement and delight, proved to be an enormous nugget tb i largest ever found on the American1 rontinentv. The "011vr Martin Chunk."; a It came to be cnown tbe whole world . over, weighed 151 pounds 0 ounce and was tbe nucleus of a for tune of a million dollars which Martin accumulated in later years. Caasell's Saturday Journal - . EACH EYE i I fit separately with the prop er lens to give perfect vision, which prevents all eye strain that causes headache. ; , The leading physicians of La Grande are now sending all their patients to me' when they suspect eyestrain. .... ' I Grind all my Glasses. . HEACO'C K EYE SPECIALIST. . Next door to post office. 3w i PS and Heating Melville LA GRANDE, ' - ORE Fill 1 riumDi - i M i flgSSZSaS'
