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PAGE 2 GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1911. MM 1 mmm.m , i mm ml Preferred Stock TEAS Full Weight 16oz. - ; 50cts - FcilWeight 8oz 25cts t W A REMEMBER Wei are Not in the Retail . Grocers' Association . j Royal Grocery H.Patti$on, Prop. Cure Your Rheumatism l!d OTHER ILLS OF THE BODY it The HOT LAKE Sanatorium (THE HOUSE OF EFFICIENCY) HOT LAKE, OREGON v ' '. ' THE Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. Sell round-trip tickets, good for three month, allowinj 16.00 worth of accommodation at the Santo- .' rium. at Portland and all 0 W. R. t N.. Station. For further Information and Illus trated booket, address, Dr. W. T. Phy. Medical SupL and Mgr., Hot Lake. Oregon, any O.-W. R. 4 N. Asent, or write to WJf. McMUBBAT, General Passenger Agent, PORTLAm OREGON. BIlllOillE IS MULE BIB ASSET FREDERICK WEYERHAUSER ONCE A MILL HAND. I Thirty Day Sal vf xt Thirt DflTi Ton Can Bnr Tour Silverware. Cut Glass. I ' Hand pointed China, Clocks si d Jewelry at a Reduction of frsm 19 X to 25 Per Cent off. All reliable Quality and Folly Guaranteed. J. H. PE RE, U ijfwelen Opposite U. 8. Land Office on A dams Avenue, t RedudionSdle 100 Switches 25 percent off Beginning Monday morning . Switches, Curls,' Puffs and Combjngs made to order can also supply the trade with Hair . Goods and ' Novelties, Massage Cream and Facial Remedies. ' ' '. The Paris Hair Store MRS. PALMER, 209 Fir St.. La Orande.'Ore. Perry Pneumatic Water Systems, Samson Wind Mills, Deming Pumps, Richardson & Boynton Warm Air Furnaces, Pipe Valves and Fittings, Gut ters, Plumbing Fixtures of All Kinds, Full Assort ment of Nickel Trimmings. BAY 6 IWEIFEL PLUMBERS, HEATERS, SHEET METAL WORKERS Uptown office Main 720 Residence phone Main 25 AMBULANCE . L bussey HACK AND Job Printing Promptly at TKe Observer Though Greatest Power In Timber Business, Lives Qnlet Life. . The George Palmer Lumber Company Retail Department We solicit your orders, for Shingles, Rubberoid Rooting, Desdening Felt, Building Paper We are prepared to furnish and deliver material, promptly. Phone Main 8. St. Paul, Minn.', Feb.' 23-rAJthous Frederick Weyerhauser, the billion aire lumberman who Is reported criti cally ill at Pasadena, CaW has made his home inSL'.Paul for many y:art i-9 is almost as little known to the people of this city as to the public in general. And this despite the fact th.it. he is believed to be th? richest man n the United States, richer probably hy some millions of dollars than John r. Rockefslleh whose name is syn oromous for .rtebes in almost ev-ry nart of th?, civilized world. Weyerhaus erlth b.!s timber land possessions aggregating 80,000,000 acres, is said to be worth t lose to $1,250,000,000 which at the present rate of advance In lum ber is Increasing by leaps and bounds. The personality of Frederick Wey erhauser is litti? known. He Is a re cluse and his own business associa tes tsvb r.err i,xi his secrets. His home life in this city is quiet and sim ple. Even to thos; who know him best he Is a living puzzle, an enigma, a mys tery, ' Born at Neidersaulhelm, a hamlet of southern Germany in 1834. he work ed as a farm laborer until his 18th year, when he mad up his mind to seek his fortune in a land wheire free dom played a more prominent part than It did In South Germany at that time. So in 1852, accompanied by his mother and sisters, he crossed the ocean. Settling first in Erie. Pa., he found work in a brewery, but 'migrated four years later to Bock Island, 111. where he got employment at $1 a day piling slabs In a sawmill. In a little more than a year he owned the mill. In a fel low worker at the mill, F. C. A Denck- raan. Weyerhauser found a fellow countryman, destined in after years to be a clofe fly in all his schemes and enterprises. Together they bought the other men out of the business, and soon found themselves free of debt and with enough capital to enable them to strike out with boldness and confi dence. From the time he acquired his first sawmill untilthe present the life of Mr. Weyerhauser has been a slow, un ceasing, steady grind of buying tim ber cheap, selling it at a profit, then acquiring still larger tracts. He first visited Wisconsin and Minnesota, wher? he discovered lands, rich In tim ber that could be purchased for a few cents an acre. He and his partner bought the lands. Sowmills were' con structed, and money began to roll in fast. Mr. Weyerhauser, as the leading pnlrlt In the partnership, created the Utile known and mystrrlous "Weyer hauser syndicate" which soon was soon acknowledged by the lumber world to be the moBt powerful factor In the trade, he Mississippi River Boom and Tagging company of, which he was elected president In the early eighties, has always been the base of his known transactions. Master of tie marvelous forests In Minnesota. Wisconsin, Michigan and In Washington and other states In the far Northwst. Weyerhauser In time came to control most of the logging done on the Mississippi. He was able to fix the price of logs, the price of hand ling them on the rivers. 4he price of sawing thcm. and the price of the fin ished product. t And In all this, he shunned publl- j dtv like the Grand Llama of Thibet. Thoireh posssessed annarentlv of an unquenchable ambition, he has never made 11ulav of h's wealth. The slmnle life of their earlier davg has satisfied h'm ind his family. He ha never cnrd tor vncnts. Butomob'l,'. faBt horse? n.1 other luxuries com mon to the m'lUnna'r" class. Hi f"' sons all received excellent educations but were obl'd to worV In the lum ber camns end p-o thrnueh the mills as their father tild before them. eoxsnssior appointed to fer- EET OCT nrPBOYEKEXT. Great Skill Shown by Army Hen in ; Packing and Unpacking Mules. i Washington, Fen. 23. (Special.)--To study the problems encountered In mountain artillery work, a spccia board hs been created by tho be'r -tary of War, which will glvo its en tire attcrtion to this phase of aitlll ery "studies in the United State tr my. ,; they board consisting of three ar tillery officers has been or to red to take X station at Fort D. A. Kussei Wyom'i.g, and will act as a s-i'j bii'r 'o- the general field artillery board At Fori Russel the departrnvr' 'i: wo companies of nountal na:t:il.-r and the topographical envlrc mer.t ij especii l'y adapted to this practlc'.. CoitKdered technically the pvob lems c' the mountain ar'.''erv servn-f are i 'ntlcal wit hthose of Held n--tUlery. The dlstinguishh'; featur; i? ih- 5 eblem of transpoci'ion. Gun' and eqLipment must; le n ivl.:r ' wiac'i tiu be ta!:cr. In4, nieres tiv nr ! cesslble to the m :; li."it. n I.eavy artillery bat'.eries. The much abused army mule plare a leading, if not the principal part Ir mountain artillery transportation Gun, gun carriage, ammunition, and all the different parts are packed un cn mules aiid the field of a mountain battery are practically unlimlt'd, a mule can reach places almost inac cessible to man. The gun used is almost universally of 2.95 inch bore, and fires two sizes of shells, weighing 12.5 and 18 pound lespecrively. Thfse guns are short and stubby, being only 31 Inches in lengtl They are effective at 4.000 yards, which, considering the short ness of the barrel, is a remarkable d-monstration of the advance in artill ery since the Civil War. In a level country this gun may be hauled by a mule, but In the hills It is always taken down and the var ious parts divided between several different pack mules. The gun barrel If. loaded on one mule, being placed on a specially constructed saddle. Upon a second .the cradle of the gun i j kit a .titwl rm rrck thA i IS piaceu, vimiv m wi" . .- - - trailer of thi carriage, and a fourth the wheels and fixtures for loading end cleaning the gun. Other mules "re loaded down with boxes of ammu Llf'on, usually twenty rounds to a rle. The leads , are so divided that ch mule carries about 330 pounds. Soldiers assigned1 to mountain bat teries become highly proficient In the wkinjr and unpacking of guns. The feat of unloading the parts of the gun from four mules, assembling tbem, load'ng the run and firing it has be n performed In ' ls than tw?ntv-five "onrf.. Packine unon mules I an f rt wf'.hih itself and requires long studv." Moun'ain artillery has been put to rractlcpl uss aga'nst the More 11 the carmalgns In the Ph'linrtin n. The Morn conntT I' a si'cress'on "r 'onntainr rnd pTamns, OrT'"S who seen ne'ltv o "loim'a'Ti .MJIni- iiiivc'.8'! ni' LOCUST YEAR IS IT newly planted orchards and even her, by vigorous pruning back after the cicada has disappeared much of the Injury caused by the punctures can b obviated." For any one who has Intended to plant young trees this year, the following advice is given for protective measures: "Ordinary ' repellant substances, such as kerosine emulsion or carbolic-acid solutions, seem, to have very 1'itla effect fn preventing; the ovi- positlon of thene Insects. Some more . recent "experience, however, indicates that trees thoroughly sprayed with Bordeaux mixture or lime wash are apt to be avoided by the cicada, es pecially if theTe are other trees or woods In the neighborhood1 on wh'ch they can ovldeposlt. The most reliab'e means of protecting nurseries and young orchards is by collecting th- tn certs in bags or. umbrellas from the trees In early, morning or late even ing,, when they are somewhat tornld. Puch roectlons should be undert'k n t th. fr'-t arncance of the cicada LOWER MISSISSIPPI YALLEI EX PECTS PLAGUE AGALX Some Xrtliod of Protection Has B en Eerlsod by Formers There,, ; Chicago, Feb. 23 (Special) This is the year of the 17-year and' of the 13 year race, whkh will cover the Miss issippi valley, particularly its lower hr.lf. The famous 17-year brood large ly will play their shrill drums In. the eastern states. In 1898 a very careful study of the 13-year locuBt was made, by L. O. Howard, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and also by entomologists of several states including Illinois, Kentucky and Mis souri. In a report Just issued by the Bureau of Entomology Mr. Howard says: "The periodical cicada when it appears in great numbers, naturally causes considerable ' alarm and fear for the safety of shade trees and orch ards. The actual damage, however Is usually slight except in the case of Be Corset Happy u Whon you deci to be eors?t happr. come and te fitted In the lace-in-front Gossard. There is a model In the Gossard to show off to best advantage your special type of figure. $5W to 15.00. ; ,' Mrs.Robert Pattison PH05E BLACK 1481. hi lmiiistratra Sale ZSXBeSSZ The undcrsliriu'd nlll kcII by public auction at her farm known as 'tho John McEonnU place, 7 miUs iwrlh of Island City, on '. ues ay 9 .Feb. 8,4911 25 HEAD OF HORSES ? HEAD OF BRROD MARES 2 FILLIES, S AND 4, 1 DRIVING TEAM, 8 AJiD i 1 0 HEAD YOl'XG HORSES, 1 & 2 3 SICKLING COLTS 1 YEARLING MULE 2 MILK COWS Mccormick binder 7-ft (new) McCORMICK MOWER AND RAKE BANG PLOY, WALKING PLOW SOD PLOW, DRAG HARROW DISC HARROW, MONITOR DRILL NEW FANNING MILL 2, SU WAGON'S (OYERED HACK TWO BUGGIES PAIR BOB SLEIGHS SET SINGLE BUGGY HARNESS SET BUGGY HARNESS 6 SETS WORK HARNESS CREAM SEPARATOR SADDLE AND BRIDLE 1 JACKSON HAY FORK 1 PACK SADDLE A LARGE QUANTITY OF HAY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, TOOLS AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES Sale Commences at 10 o'clock sharp. Free Lunch. V TERMS t ALL SALES OF TEN DOLLARS AND UNDER, CASH. OTH ER AMOUNTS ON 8 MONTHS TIME AT 8 PER CENT, WITH APPROV ED SECURITY. 3 PER CENT DISCOUNT FOR CASH. Tt"i'er ' to Travel. Ber"n, "lPrlnc- Adelhevt. the Ka'ncr's third son will sail short ly 'or Tdrnfil flbourd a German bnttle shlvt. to make a tour of the German settlements, according to an announce ment Just made. Ed. Stringham, Auctioneer. MAUDE M. CHILDERS Administratrix. f - . ' ' -''1 ' r ., ( -r- v