LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1912.
HOFEH DEFENDS
SHE LINE IS
75 PER CENT
We Have Some
PRES DENTKERR
W SURVEYED
of the public eyeB are defective
and' ' '
70 PER CENT
of the detective eyes should be
wearing - .'. . ;.
PROPERLY FITTING GLASSES
From all parts of the country
people come to me: some suf
ferlng with severe HEAD
ACHES, and OTHER FORMS
0F EYESTRAIN, others who
have not seen FBOPEBLT all
their life, and to one and all, I
render a service which It has
taken 10 years of constant study
and practice to
;' PEBFECT. ' .
If you are a sufferer from head
aches, If the print blurs when
reading; It you cannot see to
sew or knit as you' once did, It
Is certain that
EYE STRAIN IS PRESENT.
Call and let me make a scienti
fic examination of your eyes,
and advise you as to their care
and the
BEST METHODS FOR PRE
, SERVING GOOD YISION
I GBIND ALL MY GLASSES.
HEACOCK
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
Next Door to the Post Office
ANSWERS BACK AT EUGENE PA
PER' CRITICISM. ':-.:.
Membership of L. D. S. Church Iii La
' Gruude Pointed to, ;.
I J.H.
Richardson E.S., Given
E. S. Givens
Investment
Co.
Rear La Grande Nat'l Bank
Real Estate,
Insurance.
High Class Invest
ments and Securities
Foley's Iljonejr and Tan Compound
"Cures Ju Every Case."
Mr. Jas. McCaffery, Mgr. of the
Schltz hotel, Omaha, Neb., recom
mends Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound, because It cures In every case.
"I have tried It myself and I have
lecommended' It to many others who
have since told me of Its great cura
tive power in diseases of the throat
and lungs." Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound is a reliable family medi
cine. Give it to your children, and
take it yourself when you feel a cold
coming on. It checks and cures colds,
coughs and croup and prevents bron
chitis and pneumonia. ; Refuse substi
tutes. A. T. HILL.
Col. E. Hofer, editor of the Salem
Journal, rebukes the Eugene papers
for their attacks of President Kerr of
the 0. A. C, the Salem editor saying
in the appended from the Journal:
The Eugene papers are very abusive
pf some of the men In this state, who
do not happen to hold Just their views
on certain matters. It Is the height
of Intolerance for the press to try to
discredit me'h like President Kerr, of
the O. A. C, and Mr. Moore, editor of
the Corvallls Daily Gazette-Times, be
cause they happen to hail from Utah,
or because their ancestors happened
to be Mormons. The Mormons ot to
day will average In general Intelli
gence and morality with any denoml-
.DcCUUat? a IUau a luiuci. who a muiwuui
does not Justify the inference that he
is therefore lacking In brains or com
mon decency or any other- attributes
of good citizenship.' The Eugene pa
pers will blacken any man who would
even suggest reforms In our Institu
tions ot higher education. What is to
become of free criticism and a free
press if any editor or public man who
dares to open his mouth for netter
conditions in public affairs, for less
extravagance or lower taxation, Is
pilloried as a public enemy and clas
sed with malefactors? The Eugene
papers are hurting their own cauBe
every time they give way to bad tem per
along that line. There were some
members of the Church of Latter Day
Saints in the delegation that has Just
Ijeen visiting our city, and you could
not tell them from other business men
W the crowd. T beso men are the soul
and life and financial backbone of
some ot the biggest enterprises in
Eastern Oregon. Bishop Bramwell,
who resides at La Grande, is a man
who can asoclate with the biggest men
in Portland or the national capital on
perfect terms of equality, and as a
gentleman and a business man la the
peer of any man In the northwest. It
we are Americans what la the use of
being small about It, and casting odi
um on acocunt of his religious or po
litical opinions? The regents of the
state agricultural college went out
in the open market of the whole Unlt
' ed States, and hunted up Prof. Kerr,
and offered him the Job at Corvallls,
on condition that he would make good.
While no one who studies higher edu
cation critically can agree with every
thing that is done at Corvallls, not
even the critical mind, it fair, can sav
that President Kerr has not served
the state well, and made the school at
Corvallls serve the greater Interests
of the state and its Industrial develop
ment along the broader lines ot effi
cient citizenship. A man who has
done that work faithfully cannot be
harmed by calling him names. We
advlse the Eugene editors to get good
natured, soak their tootsies in hot wa
ter, pare-their claws a little and put
a snaffle bit on their vocabularies.
The Texas State Federation of La
bor will hold its annual convention in
Palestine, beginning May 6.
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anC you will be sure of getting the
newest designs and best colorings.
We have Paper., lor every room in
the house, also Hall Paper of the
prettiest patterns In floral scroll
and flgnre work. .We have the best
grades at the fairest prices, and re
spectfully ask you to call and look
over our samples.
B. B. NUTTER.
Next to Observer Office.
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Roofing, Sash Doors, etc.
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ENGINEERS COMPLETE WORK SAY
LEWISTON REPORTS.
Detailed History of Various Locations
; ; for 0.-W. Line Given.
(From Lewlston Tribune.)
The location of the O. W. R. &
N, line from Homestead to Clarks
ton' was completed Tuesday, the last
party of surveyors under Engineer
Watklns departing from the city for
Salt Lake last evening. The work was
commenced last summer at Home
stead by Engineer Wlngate, and ear
ly In Septemebr Engineer Watklns
and party arrived In Lewlston to be
gin the location from the Clarkston
end. Later a third party, under En
gineer Martin, was added to the forces
and Mr. Martin commenced work at
a point a short distance above Pitts
burg landing and made the location
to within a few miles of Imnaha.
Later he located ten mlleB of the line
In the vicinity of the Grande Ronde.
The data collected by the engi
neers and from which the estimates
iinvn been comnuted show the average
cost of the line from Homestead to
Clarkston, a distance .. of 120 miles,
will be approximately $80,000 per
mile, or In the neighborhood of $10,
000,000 for the entire line'. There
are stretches where the location Is
across productive bars where the cost
of construction will be light but. In
the Imnaha section and at other
r,ninfa alone tho route, where the
construction work will consist of tun
nels and cuts through solid rlcK, tne
cost will roach $250,000, per mile.
t ib hnlldlnir of this road tne
will eliminate the difficult
grades ot the Blue mountain division
and will have a line upon which the
onnt of maintenance will be practical
iv nothing, with snow blockades,
washouts and landslides unknown
The maximum curvature at any point
Is six degrees and the maximum grade
is four tenths of one per cent. The
cost of operation and , maintenance
will be o materially decreased that
the saving will more than offset the
Interest, on the . Investment and 'the
question of -providing a road over
which the steadily increasing business
to the coast can be conveniently and
economically handled will be solved.
In comparing the proposed road with
the. line now operated by the com
pany over the Blue mountains, state
ment Is made that three ot the larg
est locomotives are required to takrf
a train of twenty-five loads over the
mountain division while one locomo
tive of the same type will handle from
60 to 80 cars from Huntington to
Portland over the Snake river route.
This item of reducing the operat
ing expense is but trivial, however,
in comparison to the other Important
results attained in the construction of
the road from Homestead to Clarks
ton as the new line will open a new
empire rich in agricultural, horticul
tural, mineral and ' timber resources
which is now non-producing because
of its complete isolation. Wherever
the mountains close in on the river,
rich mineraVproperties have been de
veloped to a point of ore shipping
while large areas of bar lands will
be as productive of horticuiaural pro
ducts as any section of the river be
low Lewlston. On the high bench
lands are vast tracts particularly suit
ed to the growing of grains while
from the Grande Ronde Bection alone
will come a tonnage practically equal
to the rich Nez Perce and Camas
prairie sections.
From the time the work, was first
undertaken last fall, the rumor has
been current in engineering circles of
the Short Line that the construction
work would be Inaugurated this spring
and the character of work demanded
would suggest that the location has
been made with a view of early activi
ties. Men have been lowered over
cliffs and bluffs with ropes to operate
their instruments and set the stakes
that will" not remain In place for a
period exceeding a few weeks. ThU
character of location has retarded
the progress of the survey to such an
extent that for days the large engi
neering crews were not able to com
plete more than 200 feet of the line In
a day.
The line is located on the Oregon
and Washington side of the river
and will become a part of the O.-W. 1
R. & N. system but the work has been
performed by engineers from the
Salt Lake office of the Oregon Short
line. In railroad circles there Is a
general belief that the building of
i the Snake river road will result In
simultaneous activity In the construc
tion of the Gilmore & Pittsburg down
the Salmon river and that from the
mouth of the Salmon river a Joint on-
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We can sell your property or exchange it to suit you. Write us if you cannot
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La Grande Investment Co.
Fire InsuranceSurety Bonds, Plate Glass Insurance
eration arrangement will be effected
and the Joint line will become a part
ot the Camas Prairie Railroad system.
This would result in a saving in con
struction expense of one-halt for a
distance of 50 miles, much, of which
distance embraces . the . most expen
sive portion of the road to be built.
Members of the engineer party
In. the city, yesterday report, an .. ice
blockade in the Snake river above
the Grande Ronde, more than a mile
of the channel being filled wlthlce.
The members of the party were com
pelled to abandon their camp and per
sonal effects and make the trip on
land to a point a short distance above
the Grande Ronde where they were
met by the gasoline launch "Flyer" of
Asotin. The camp equipment is In
charge of Al Stiff el, wbo will be
brought out by the launch as soon as
the river Is open.
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for a cough or cold take Chamberlain's
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JOINT INSTALLATION SATURDAY
Mrs. Cora Davis, National President,
and Gen. Goodbrod to Install. '
There will be a nublic Installation
Saturday of the new officers of tho
G. A. R. and W. R. C, in Odd Fellows
hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. Cora Davis, of
Union, National President, , accom
panied by her secretary', Mrs Jennie
B.'Higgins, will conduct the W. R. C.
Installation and General A. J. Good
brod will install the post officers. The
newly elected officials to be Installed
are the following.
Relief Corps Officers
Pres. Mrs. Anna Roesch, S. V. P.
Mrs. Mary G. : Miller, J. V. P. Mrs. I.
W. Faulk, Chap. Mrs. C. M. Jones,
Treas. Mrs. Rachel E. Worstell, Sec.
Mrs. Sudan B. Williamson, Con. "Mrs.
A. S. MoGee, Guard, Mrs. Orva Law
rence. .
Post Officers.
..Com. I. W. Faulk, Sen. Vice Wm.
Grlder, J. Vice O. McCumber, Adj. J.
W. Oliver, Chaplain, C. H. Gore, Offi
cer of Day, George Jacobs, Officer of
Guard, Mose Thompson.
All members of the Corps and ot
the Post are requested to meet at the
hall at 11 o'clock as the veterans are
giving a .ine mess dinner to their
ladles ot the auxiliary. Usually the
favors of the table are given the other
way and the old boys are trying to
outdo all former feeds and special
pains have .been taken to get the best.
They have some hard tack from St.
Louis and some beans from Denver.
The beans are burnt ft little but are
all right. The bacon was found at
Mt. Emily and Is three years old and
still pretty good. All veterans who
are former camp cooks try their hand
at the mess. ,
At 2 o'clock the general public 18
Invited to witness the Installation of
Officers in tbe I. O. O. F. hall. There
will be several out of town membors
and guests present. Mr. and Mrs. Al.
Goodbrod will come over from Union
tonight.
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