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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1911 PAGE 7 ;. . . V'r of Street Improvement '.. " To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that ia pursuance of a r eaolution adopted 'by 1 the '. Common Council of thai City of La, Grande, Oregon, on tha lot day of February, 1911, creating Improvement District No. 31, and designating "S avenue, as such district, and ia pursuance, of a Resolution adopted by said Common Council on th 1st day of February, I Oil, whereby said Council determin ed and declared Us intention to im- .444.'. 1 ; "i ? i . .1 BUSINESS MAN" Do you realize the Import ance of an ; Electric Sign in drawing trade to your store or place of business? We make a very low flat are prepared to quote at tractive prices on anylkind of a sign that you may de sire, f-V:-: - Our representative is al ways ready to call and talk the matter over with you. v.:. Eastern: Oregon Light & Power Company Phone Main 34 prove all that portion of "S" Avenue, in said improvement district as here inafter .described, by laying thereon the south side,, a. board sidewalk, tht Council will, ten days after tha ser vice of this notice upon the owneii of the property affected and benefit; ted by such Improvement, order that said above described Improvement b made; that the boundaries of said dis trict to be so unproved are as fol lows. . ' ' ' All that portion of f'S" avenue, fron, the east side of Monroe avenue to the west side of Spruce street." (A) And the property affected or benefitted by said improvement is as follows: The north half of block 148 and 149 Chaplin's Addition to thf Town of La Grande, Oregon. , . Notice Is hereby further given thai thy Council will levy a special assess ment on all the property affected and benefitted by such Improvement tot the purpose of paying for such im- I provement. That the estimated cost of such Improvement Is ths sum of $1S' That the Council wll Ion the 15th da ofM arch, 1911, meet at the Council chamber at the hour of 8 o'clock p. m to' consider said estimated cost, and 1 the levy of said assessment, when a i hearing will 'be grant A to any persoi. ' feeling aggrieved by such assessment. I La Grande, Oregon, February 20th, , 1011. !-?-l:v.j !' : I CITY COUNCIL OF LA GRANDF OREGON i By C. M. HUMPHREYS, Recorder of the City of La Gran.!? '. Oregon. , , ;v ' 1. ri I Your Old Shoes Made New, at the Modern ' Shoe Repair Shop Prices Lower Better Work Quick Service GIVE US A TRIAL 108 ELM ST. NEXT to CITY HALL '' When yosw'a cold get a bottli Chamberlain's i'nih Remet!;. It Kwn tix you up all .-ijjtht inul vu r my tendency town ri pneumonia. ; i'Tne.iy contains no r.pitiui or oilier narf ..ml may he pjiv:. u ' !:'!:; tc'n b- UMBRELLA REIaIRS Covers from 50 cts to Three Dollars L.C. Smith-La Grande OLIVER EXPRESSES SELF Uhy pay Rent ? We loan yot money to build, ana yo pay us as you would rent, I. R. OLIVER1. A t An Essential I Thing and there are many. In the man. I sonul, painstaking rare of Its ofllcers. Recognizing this re eponslblllty, the officers of this Institution keep themselves In touch with every Important dc tall of the business. And the outcome! A generous, and a steadily Increasing patronise. The United States National Bank, J J '.4 ZhASrE, OREGON ,i"i"i"i"i"tit'"i"i"i,'t"i"t"t't't"t'i""i"i""t"tMt if i FARQUHARSON'S LUNCH ROOM i : Clam Chowder, Chile, Fruits, Cigars and Tobaccoes ! ! Fresh imported Swiss and Limburger cheese 213 Fir Street i S ' Cement Sidewalk Construdion FIGURE WITH Co To Barley Editor Evening Observer: . La Grande, Feb. 25 (To the Editor:) while I was In Salem, you made un just attacks upon me and Impugned my motives regarding matters pend ing In the legislature. Especially was this true in your editorial in issue of February 17th. It Is hard for me to believe that this was all prompted by malicious hatred on your part be cause our relations have always been friendly and wo have never seriously disagreed that I am aware of except in matte'rs of politics and political differences cannot Justify any news paper in publishing things untrue concerning any man. So I have per suaded mysel fthat your intentions were not malicious nor your purposes malevolent, but that your statements were based on misappropriation as to the facts. I have lived all ray life in this com munity and I thick I have a feputa tion established at least for person al integrity. And when it conns to a question cf gratitude for long public service I have long since learned that the public rarely appreciates the sacrifices made by their servants In public life One's friends will believe In him but his enem'es are always anxious to get a knife In his back. If a legislator is efficient h; Is liitlMvteii,e( no it m uuiiuicI uu If lie is not efficient he Is designated a fool. "Condemned if he doe3 and Damned if he don't." But with all this a number of the legislature has n moral right to the support of the pub lic press of his county as long as he is doing right and I hold that the press has no more right to imrmgn the motives and attack the character of Its representatives In th- le'gls'a ture than it has of any other citizen who values his refutation In the com munity where he lives. It was my good fortune to enjoy the confidence to a rare degree, not only of ; my fellow senators but also of the members of the House. It was this confidence that enabled rr" eet a large number of measurs through the legislature, eleven of my bills havln? passed both houses. I am proud of every bill which bore my name Injhe last s.-ssion, and be lieve that every one If passed would make for better conditions in this state and county. Dividing the state In congressional districts' so that Eastern Oregon will have a .congressman hereafter and Multnomah county will have anoth er while the remainder of the state will have a third, places the districts so that an Identity of Interest will be represented In each. It Is very fitting that the part of the atatei whose fu ture greatness must depend largely upon Irrigation will hereafter have one of Its own citizens In the nation al congress. The bill relieving Childers and vrawley from the loss of public mon ey through the failure of the Farmers Ac Traders bank was a most Just meas uie recommended by two grand Juries and petitioned for by all the heavy tpx payers In the county, while the bills to r ulate terms of, Circuit court to regulate, expenses in the Sheriff's office and to fix the salary of school superintendent of Wallowa county. Just and proper and have not met with any criticism that T know of. The hill to nrevent a frnm ui of testimony taken by deposition within the state passed although the same bill for testimony outside of the state failed. It also ought to have pass'd. It was simply intended to here after prevent unscrupulous scoundrels from framing tin the answers for ignorant witnesses and impose upon our Court's warped and misleading testimony which dicelve the Jury and promotes flagrant miscarriage of Justice. Another bill which ought to have passed authorized Judgments Xo be set T-Me when It would develop that the utfiment was obtained through per Jnted testimony. The Court has no means of protecting Itself against per Jury, but Its Judgment Is based on the t sttmony as it appears. If It should develop that this testimony was false and the Judgment based on perjury the court ought to be permitted to set It aside. This bill was drafted by C. E. Cochran and was Introduced at his renn et and was the only Mil whl'h r introduced which I did not nrepnro myself. I also Introduced a bill providing for the descent and distribution of property of deceased persons, which was Intended to establish hereafter f RU) 1 Is I yet it Hi in Oregon the more wholesome and humane doctrine that prevails in the state of Washington, the state of Cal ifornia and a large number of other states, and on which Oregon Is a hundred years behind the times. This bill was misunderstood and mlsrepre sented and when it was ready for pas sage .on a favorable committee report the Attorney General requested a hearing and I had It refemd bacfc to the committee. He had been told that the bill would affect the. Morris son escheat case,, but learned that it could not unkss that caBe were here after reversed in the Supreme Court and sent back for new trial, and after learning the facts and the equities in the Morrison case at that committee meeting the Attorney General sug gested that a bill be drawn and pass ed quieting the title in the Morrison lands I .acted upon his sugg:stIon am? prepared a bill which was In troduced after being submitted to the Attorney General and receiving his "oproval. It was also submitted to Mr. Ivanhoe, the District Attorney who had trl d the case, and to George Cochran, one of the attorneys who rep jesented the state In the escheat ro cee'.Mngs. It was agreed that the stat? should be re-lmbursed to the extent of tlie money paid out by It. In the proceedings in circuit court and that Cochran & Cochran should have reas onable comp nsatlon for their ser- Ires in th ens'e. Genrtft ftorhran oh- ected to the "reasonable compensa tion" and wanted the amount made definite and certain and sugg sted the very modest sum of $6,000.00. Of course no bill could pass the legisla ture with such an uneonsclousable craft and the bill was made to read SIHOO.OO for Cochran i and Cochran which vfi'l be ten per cent of the alu-. o' tr "'-onerty. C, E. Cochran at once n--oH 0n the scene an1 attacked the bill because It fixed the "mount of h'8 jcompensatlon instead of leavlnr that to the court which ad been repudiated by George Coch ran. The bill was . then amended by the committee and reported back-to the house and passed almost unani mously. Tt had "only two dissenting votes in the s nate and less than a half dozen in the House and both todies understood thoroughly the facts connected, with the matter. No biil could pass the legislature with such an overwhelming votr unless based on natural Justice and equity. My normal college bill Introduced early in the session ought to have become a law, but there was a well organized group of Willamette valley senators opposed to supporting any college not located In the Willamette valley. I made strenuous efforts to convince these people of their error and that two-thirds of area of the state lying east of. the Cascade mountains was entitled to consideration. I pub lished articles in the Salem and the Portland papers on thiB subject try ing to stimulate public sentiment but received no word of commendation ! from home. Not a paper In Union coun ty made any favorable comment upon this bill, nor any citizen of th;. coun ty contributed any argument through the Portland press. The natural con clusion was that La Grande did not care for a normal college: that I had no backing from home, and the measure was easily .turntd down. I sought to get a favorable report from the educational committee even with a referendum' claus-' attached that the question be submitted to the people, but the committee was determined that th-- senate should not. vote upon the question and the session died with out a report. I did succeed in taking care of the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station at Union In such a way that that ln F"tiH0n will not be before future' leg-Islrtu-es. I got a bill through making a continuous $7,500 a year approprt pt'on for the support of that Institu tion and authorizing experiments to te made anywhere In Eastern Oregon, under the supervision nnd direction of that Btation. This will enable the station management to combine wttn the farmers and carry on experi ments tn various altitudes and soils which will be of ereat advantage to the stat'on and to the state. Respectfully yours. TURNER OLIVER. WRITER IXSPECTS MIXES Mining World Sends Fen Pusher to ' Joseph to Peal With Condition's Julius W. Jarvis. a prominent young mining man and assayor, is here from Mexico, writing up the Joseph district for the Mining World, says the Joseph Herald. Mr. Jarvis is yery intelligent gentleman and has inspect ed all of the leading mining camps of the world; He says that, none of the great camps he -has visited wefe able to make as good a showing as the Joseph district," and he confldently predicts that within the next two years at least 25 stamp mills will be In operation in this district, and he also believes that next summer the Joseph district will experience on of the greatest mining booms ever seen In this or any other country. Mr. Jar vis will remainthere about a month. : " v" fTTood Jfstlce v : ' Notice Is hereby given that the Dis trict School Board of School District No One of Union county, Oregon, will receive up' to 4 o'clock p. m. of March 3rd, 1911 sealed bids for furnishing said school District No. One with cords of four foot, split, yellow pine and red fir wood, said wood to be cut while; green and not later than June 1st, l'Jli, free from large knots and accept able to said , school board. Said wood ia to be delivered 300 cords at high, school building, and 100 cords at tha Fourth ward school and to be corded op neatly and closely, where directed by Board. . 100 cords to be delivered by July 1st, and all on or before Sept. 1, 1911. Bids to be left with school clerk. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. : . ' ' ARTHUR C. WILLIAMS, ; ' School CJerk. LET US DYE FOR I0U, lii fact the only way we lire Is br dyeing. Don't dye yourself. It's better than dyelny yourself. WE DTE ETERI DAT AND DTE FOR ALL . .Our charge for dyeing for yon won't be hglli. A sample Job is sufficient. For best dyeing aud cleaning hare us do It. Every family has need of a good, reliable iiniment For sprains, bruises, lorenefg of the muscles and riieumatic pains there is none better than Chaniberlaln'e. SoM bj ail rlfiro Plumbing and Heatin ELIT- CLEANING & DTE WORKS, Phone Main 64. JohnMelville H28 Adams Avt LA GRAHDE, - ORE Complete Equipment tor Resetting ann Repairing Rubber Buggy Tires LA GRANDE IRON WORKS D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY hting Gallery JUST OPENED Shining Parlors, Cigars, Tobacco, Fresh r ruit, Candy, Fresh Popcorn 241 Depot Street La Grande. (Won Nip fonley Married Miss Myrtle Booth and N I.. Con ley w re married at Baker Saturday February 18. These are nnnulur young noople of Cove and their many friends wish them a happy life. Lloyd Carter and Miss Irene Conley accompanied them on their trip. Union Scout Real state Mining Investments General Informa tion regarding the Famous WaPowa Valley V. . . Correspondence Invited BOWMAN a CO. Joseph, Ore. 1 ..'5 -