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PAGE 2 LA" GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, , WEDNESDAY, AUGUST .9, 1911. iou orciii TO KXOW , this shop, and Its nhllf iy to m( yon uosu unr one strongest desire Is to rnrn out the best CXEAMXG A5D rRESSnC amf to price onr senlcfs to meet your satisfaction. We be UeTe we do this. If yosr gar ments need our attention (end tliein to its nnd we will do jour work promptly and jranrnntec not to mln the muerIaK ELITE DYEING & CLEANIWf; vvGftKS Plumbing and Of John Melville H28 Adams Avy IA GRANDE, - : ORE 3 ed Gedar WEN AHA LUMBER CO. GREENWOOD & MADISO! Home Phone 421 Bell Phone, Main 732 Compkte Equipment tor Resetting inn Repairing Rubber Buggy Tires LA GRANDE IRON WORKS - ' D. FJT2GER ALD, Proprietor ; COMPLETE MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY V M.?.'i"g.aJJ!,,gaaiWl mmmwvmmwMm.mmmm.. i mi mm,r mm iJ . ' '.I -Hi Bradley S "Go; Sanitary rinmbln. REPAIR WORK piioxes snop-BLACK :l RESIDEXCE BLACK 31Si 1RATERXAL ORDERS OF LA 1 '" . GRANDE. ?. ? C if. 4 A. M. i-f " -fO'" -Ole NO 41, J F. & A. M. i :.a- meet ings first and tnnd Satiraays at 7:30 p. m. Cordial welcome to all Maaons. L. M. HOYT, W. M. i C. WILLIAMS, Secretary. . P. O. . La Grande Lodge No. 433 meets each Thursday evening at 8 o'clock In Kik's club, corner of De pot street and Washington arer.ua Viaitlng brotheif are cordially In viUa to attend. ; , H. J.' BITTER,' E. Kui. ' H. E. CGOLIDGE, Rec. Sec. VOODMEN OF THE WORLD La Grande Lodge No. 169 W O. W meets every second and fourth Sat urdays at K. P. hall. . All visitms mebers welcome. ' D. FITZGERALD, C. C. J. H. KEENEY. Clerk. A. W. A. La Grande Camp No. 7703 meets every Monday In the mon-in at , the I. 0. O. F. hall. All vlsltlna neighbors are cordially invited to mead. . , . ED. HEATH. Clerk. i EBEKAHS Crystal Lodye No. W meets every Tuesday evening in th I. O. 0. F. hall. Ail visiting mem bers are invited to attend. MRS. KATIE ARBUCICLE. N. Q. MISS ANNA ALEXANDER. Beo. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Red Croe Lodge No 27 mes every Monday night in Castle hall, (old Elk's hall.) A Pythtan welcome to all vlsitlnj Knights. :'.' JESS PAUL, C. C R. L. LINCOLN, M. of R. ft S. O. E. S. Hope Chapter No. 13, O. B C. noM itated communications th second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Visiting members cor cMaliy Invited, CARRIE B HUNTER. W. M. MARY A. WARNICK, Sec. . : 'v ; " ":'"---"; : '";"' :-. ' " ') jh Rmtiirot and Dm Pchocl frr Glrit In" fthri; cl Bilt ot ft. John Br.itt (Eplncoralil Coi:tit. Acacaata n4 ILwttjr" CpirUtwiU. If ilo. Art, Iloentioe. avsinuinu. Fcr -Ulo wldrra THE Hl IXH Ki rERlOE Off1c28.St-JrlruIlnll g A SPECIALTT. ' NE T ICCR T C FAIL Shin mm . ies iCARLY HISTORY IS REIIO W. C. Y. UIEIIART WRITES OF IX. DIAX CAMPAIGNS. f aniimigim of Late CL Cnrre y of La . Grande Told of by Writer. ' ; ; (W. C. Vj. Rlaohart.) Stattle, Wash.,.' Aug. 7, Editor Obssrver. Tha enclosed scrap of mili tary history should be of lo al interest 'o many of your reaflei'S, as it leads up to an important Incident-of which lit le la kuown. even by those now living In what was then frontier In dian country. . ; (Jeo. C'nrrey In l oniin tud. . - Col. R. F. Maury of the First Ore gon cavalry was to have been succeed ed by Gen. Geo. Wright, but hia losa on the. ill fated Brother Jonathan left Col. G-orgc B. Cm rey, First Oregon infantry, the ranking officer, who as sumed coiunmnd of t!ia newly created d;prtni?"t 1, '"mht nnnn the muster out of Col. Maury. Oi'ns w in in nnd. ; It had long been the policy of the w$r department to withdraw all troops from the Indian country for winter quarters at Walla Walla, Fort Dalles and Vancouver. . -V' ' ... But four summer can-paigns against' the Indians had convinced Col, Currey and pther volunteer ofllccrs that the speedy way to end hostilities was .to occupy wit troops, the wlntsr camp ing grounds of the Indians. Following his own convictions of duty as command: r Cpl C'-irrey at once ordered temporary camps established at points known to be winter camping grounds for Indians.'. These were Camp Polk, near th& confluence of Crooked river with Deschu ts, Camp Currey, on Silver Creek, Camp Wright on Silvles river and Camp Alvord, at the southern base of Steins mountain all In the Harney Lake country Camp Bruneau on Snake rler, Camp Three Forks on Owyhee river and Camp Colfax, on Willow Creek above Malheur City. . . -, While this movement was expsnsive and also hazardous for the troops, it was even more hazardous for the hos tile Indians. - -' . - ' Gen. Geo. Crook, who succeeded Col. Currey In command, sejlng the effect of tha: first winter campaign, approv ed the plan and followed it up until settlements of whites around those camps were soon able to protect them, selves and the hostiles were gathered upon' reservation which have since bten opened to settlement, The clipping referred to above was written1 at Vancouver barracks late in June, and follows: ' , At midnight tonight the present or ganization of the department of the Columbla. whlch has been In existence undfer six differing names since 1855, and which has had such dls lngulshed men as Col. Jeff Davis, Brig. Gen. Nel son A. Miles, Brig. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, find many others "aaommandlng of ficers will cease to e&lst.. An order has been. Issued 6Jt.ho' war depart ment In Washington, D. C., reorgan izing the army under a war basts, and drawing all of the troops in the Unit ed States under three divisions the Eastern division, Central division and Western division, with headquarters at New York, Chicago and San Fran cisco, respectively. . ! The departments are reduced in number from nine to seven, and Maj. Gen. Leonard S. Wood, chief of staff i V a o rr t nalintaiixi lliot & Oairino- j of $300,000 will be made annually. I besides, making the troops more effi cient. The list of officers and the many vicissitudes through which thla de partment has gone since It was first established make Interesting history of the Pacific Northwest. ENtabllKbed In 1K.Vn, On or about January 21, 1855, the Columbia river and Puget Sound, dis trict was established, with Maj. G. I F.Alns, Fourth Infantry, In command Col. G. Wright or the Ninth infan ryi assumed command about January 21 1856, and helll that oftlce until March 1 of the same year, when the designa tlon was changed to the northern dis trict, department of the Pacific, which Colonel Wrlpht commanded until Oc toher 21. 1S58, when a chniige to the department of Oregon was made, with Lrlg.-Gen, W. S. Harney in command, nnd hs hsld command iir.tll July 5 1S60, when he was relieved by Col Wright, wno held until January 1, 1861, when a. change to the district of Oregon -was made, and he was in this position until Col. B. S.. Bea'l, First Dragoons, relieved him S?ptember 13, 1S01. Lieut.-Col. A. Cady, Seventh in fantry, assumed command October 23, 18C1. until May 9, 1S62. At er him followed in succession Col. Justus Steinberger, First W.- T. Infantry, May 9, 1S62, to July 7, 1862. Brig.-Gen. Benjamin Alvord, U. ,S. Voluntsrs, July 7, .1862, tc) March 24, 1S65; Col. R. F. Maury, First Ore-ron cavalry, March 21, 1865, to August S, 1SG5. . .. . '. - . Ths department of te - Columbia was -then established and that' name has not been changed fo the present 'ime. This department was establish ed June 27, 18G5. and Brig. Gen. Geo. Wright was assigned to the command thereof. General Wrlg-.it never assum ed command, as he was drowned July 30, 18C5, while en route to .Portland, by the sinking of the steamship the Brother Jonathan. " Genera! 3I;ius RCninlns. -' . Brig.-Gsn. Marion P. Maus assumed command July 6, 1009. . He is now the commanding officer of this department tut since he. was .callsd to the fron Col. Cornellus.Gardener and Col. Sid ney W. Taylor have . been acting com mandants. :--" ' '.;-.. -y..'?.."' Under the new organization Capt. Hugh D. Berkeley will remain as dis bursing quartermaster with headquar ters In Portland and the purchasing commissary for this post Is yet to be appointed. ' , . . Col.. W. H. Miller will remain as quartermaster in Seattle. He buys all provisions for the army in the po3ts on Puget Sound and In Alaska. Ha will retain his present ofTices In Seat tle. .'.:'.' : ':.;. Maj. D. J. Carr Is relieved as chief signal dfflcer pf the department of the Columbia, but he will remain hi charge of the Alaska and Washington cable and telegraph lines, with head quarters in Seat le. . , . ' L. E. Lamprecht, who has been chief clerk of the adjutant general's depart: mcnt, will leava tomdrrow for San Francisco, which he will be in he ad jutant .general's department. He Is succeeded by J. N. Stewart, who has been In the adjutant ganeral's depart ment In the United States army, for 27 consecutive years. , The officers of the department af ter July 1 will consist of General Maus, commanding off.cer; his aids le camp,' Lieut. Arthur T, Dalton, and Lleut.-Col. F. J. Kernan, adjutant gen eral; three clerks, J. N. Stewart, chief clerk, W. A. Riggs and H. C. Funk, and two messengers, Charles . Hutcheck and D. E. LundEford. Right in your busiest season when you have the lenst time to spare you are most ikely to take diarrhoea and lose several hits time, unlet yon have ('hamberlain'i olic, Cholers and Diarrhoea Remedy at lied and take a dose on the first appear--e of the diBcase. For sale by all deuiers. Gossard -They lace In front. Think what that means the -classic bacW correct poise beautiful lines ease of adjustment with abso lute comfort. The proof Is In the fitting , Mrs. Robert Pattison Corserri1. Thonf Black NOTICE . Our place of business will be located hereafter in the Fowler warehouse, 1557 Jetfersoi Ave., one block cast of our present location. ' We w til do a general ware house business, besides carrying a full line of Feed, Poultry Snp. "piles, Floor, Wood, etc. Phone us your orders. Waters-Stanchfcld ProcluccCs. Matn 7M. 1537 Jefferson Ave. hi Oft M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 1 1 HtWW H'll HHrHHMW J. rl. I-'KLEI, ' ' la Grande's Leading iewecr i Opposite U. S. Lanl Ofilee A dams Avenue. 'J , - - - . i Think This Over, How n:aiiv hours a day the ldtclien ? ; : , Do von know that every niinute spells drudgery..' these hot days? 7 :. : - " : Can you expect her to be happy and cheerful when the oven-like heat is robbing her of health and gaod looks? Of course, you must eat even if it is hot, and meals must be read on time, but honestly now, 'don't you feel sorry for her, slaving over a hot stove ? ' Then, why net buy hsr an Electric Range? ; ; ; Sho can get the meals in half the time and in a rol 'kitchen. . And ihei-t' is m 'fuel 1m L.tLdlc c,r to fuss with . Think what that means. . . .. lnd we'll make you a special rate on electritty so that vour fuel bill will be about the same as yon'ay now.i'or wood. . k Can you think of anything that .will please vour Avife more? Drop in and talk it over, or call Mi;- 34. Eastern Oregor '-'SPECIAL PRICES ' Post O f f ice Cc nf f. c tionei y '.-'' ;;-- . 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