La Grande evening observer., January 10, 1913, Image 8

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10,
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CONFUSING
Score of people have been confus
ed on tbe announcement of the totai
tax levy , for La Grande and Union
ountj'aa announced In tbe Obgervel
tost night. Tbe atate levy, at given.
1b 1.2 mills, and In the county, tbe
levy Is given ai 14 mills. This to
nany la so confusing that it ' has
Mtued eonsderable discussion. Tbe
point is plain when once studied. On
the total assessable property In the
state, it requires 1.2 mills taxation
to meet tho sunt of money needed to
ran the state. The state in turn,
parcels out to each county tbe sum
ef money It must contribute. ' Now
ft falls to t'ulon county's tut to raise
$25,044.50. Tbe county court In turn,
must provide this money and to do
so, determines that on the assessed
valuation of Union county It would
require a 1.4 mill tax to raise tbe
urn.
The state officials know what It
needed to meet state expenses; they
- know the attessed vuluartlon of the
state; that the levy muBt necessar
fly be a certain figure; in this In
stance 1.2 mills on the entire state
valuation. Then they a4lot to each
eonnty the sum that county must
raise to determine the levy In that
ounty necessary to raise tbat sum
h the duty of the county court. Ii.
this instance the county officials com
jnte, readily enough, that It requires
a levy of 1.4 mills on the county's
valuation, $16.97,031. to raise the
an m required by tbe state which Is
925,044.50 Tbe truth of the matter
Is that 1.4 mills will fall short about
11200 of meeting this sum as will be
found on running out tbe totals from
the figures given above.
Appended Is the correct table of
taxation, with the total for the coun
ty Inserted wbere It was omitted yes
terday. THE COUNTY LEVY
General fund 2.2 mills
Call warrants 1.4 mills
Road fund 1.77 mills
State :.: 1.4 mills
Schools 2.57 milU
High schools - .6 mills
Indigent fund 03 mills &
: Library 03 mills
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Total couuly levy ...10 mills 'S
City of La Grande. . .16.5 mills
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LOCAL ATTOKXKIS PARTICIPATE
IX CASES
North Ponder Water Cases Argned
Before Chinook
aSSSSSeaeBM
C. E. Cochran, O.-W. attorney for
merly located here, and the assistant
chief engineer for tbe atate of Ore
gon, went on to Portland yesterday
after attending the water hearing in
Baker relative to tbe North Powder
water controversies. Speaking of
1'iut bearing, a Bluer paper ak:
The taking of testimony in the vase
of the water users of the North Pow
der river versus the North Powder
Hilling and Mercantile company,
whlcb has been beard the past three
days by Water Commissioner James
Chlnnock In this city, was concluded
last evening and the greater number
of tbe attorneys, witnesses and oth
ers Interested In tbe case to the num
ber of about 50, took their departure
for their homes.
! The testimony taken here, which
I was In regard to the exact measure
ments of-the water allotted to the
land in question and several other
small details, was so taken on tbe
order of the Judge of the circuit
court of Union county, where the
suit was Instituted, and then remand
ed to the board of control to hear
(his portion of the evidence which
will be Incorporated Into the records
of the trial. Judge Thomas Craw
ford and Attorney H. C. Finn have
been representing the plaintiffs at
the bearing and Attorney Charles
Cochran has appeared for the do-J
fondant company. ;
IMOTD
DRESSES
Your choice of any
Dress in the Stock
-L . Come Saturday, January H,'i3 -JL!22
SUITS
Your choice of any
Woman's Suit in the
StOCK
DON'T DELAY BUT MAKE YOUR PURCHASES SATURDAY. THE PRICES WE ARE MAK
ING HAVE NEVER BEEN EQUALLED IN LA GRANDE. AND IF YOU WISH TO SAVE ON EV
ERYTHING YOU NEED BUY IT SATURDAY.
Every Article in the House on Sale, but
Take Notice, They Must Be Bought Saturday
WE HAVE GIVEN YOU THE BEST AND LOWEST PRICE SALE EVER HELD IN LA GRANDE
MERCHANDISE HAS BEEN SOLD YOU AT A TRIFLE OF ITS COST, AND IN JUSTICE TO
OURSELF THESE PRICES MUST BE WITHDRAWN. DONT DELAY BUT MAKE YOUR PUR
CHASES Saturday, January 11, 1913
Dress goods and Silks
PRICE
GEIBEL'S
Men's Suits
PRICE
HEDCCTI0X
On Sweaters
We stll have a few of the popular
ruff-neck sweaters. In order to close
them out we have decided to reduce
the price from $8.50 to $7.00.
W. H. B0IINEMU.MP CO.
1-10-St
The Loyal Sisters of the Christian
church, meet with Mrs. J.H. Keeney,
1114 Wash, avenue. Wednesday, Jan.
loth. 1913.
School, La Grande
district 11 . mlllB
Total grand levy In La
Grande 37.6 mills
WAITED Second girl for nurse
maid and to assist In general
housework. . Call at Jit. Emily
Timber company's office, new Foley
building. A. J. Stange. l-lMf
Italns Stop Frosts.
Los Angeles. Jan. 10. Rains worth
millions of dollars to the fruit grow
ers and gardeners In the lower parts
of the state have been falling all day.
More are predicted for tomorrow.
Le the Poor Oyster!
fDr. Wiley has announced that the oys
ter suiters untold agony whAi eaten on
the halt shell. News Item.
When the meek, retiring- oyster
Is atslra-ted from hie tied ,
In a manner rather shocking
He la very fur from dead.
When we prod his pi'ivute person.
Though his heart seems still and cold,
We convulse 1,'s c -jntitullou
With un agony untoid.
a, Now. Instead of milling lemon
'Twould be vastly ino.e humane
To anoint til tiny features
With a sprlnklinu of cocaine.
When wo add a pinch of pepper
Just to give tlte menu xet
We envelop him In suffering
Thut rends hla tiny breast,
And a touch of hot tubunco
To his person, It appears.
Brings a gush of untold anguish -
That Is far too deep for tears.
So Instead of adding condiments
That give him needless pain
Let us sprny the little fellow
With a flash of sauce cocaine.
Ufa.
Entire Change of Pictures at Arcade
Tonight.
1. Pals, western drama. Ameri
can. 2. Price of Paradise, drama. Gau
niont. 3. Raymond & Gilbert, in vaude
ville. 4. Desperate Lover, comedy. Key
stone. 6. Taming a Bachelor, drama.
Comet.
6. The Bear Escape, farce com
edy. Keystone.
AUGUST STAXGE HOME.
Family to Visit In Los Angeles Be
fore Coming Home From Trip
August J. Stange, president of the
La Grande Commercial club, accom
panied by Charles Kubasta, has re
turned from Merrill, Wis., where the
Stange family spent tbe holidays with
relatives. 'Mr. Stange's family will
spend another week in Wisconsin and
then go on to Los Angeles to spend
a few weeks before returning home.
Brasll Enjoys Trade.
Washington. Jaauary 10. The
United States is by far Brazil's best
customer, according to Consul Gen
eral Julius G. Levy at Rio de Janeiro
In a report on the export trade of
that country during 1911 made public
In the consular reports here. The
American purchases , amounted to
35.6 per cent of the value of the total
exports. Great Britain took 15 per
cent of the total output business of
Brazil during the same period.
Drives Off a Terror.
CATCHINU A HYENA.
Tbe chief executioner of death Ir.
the winter tad spring months It
pneumonia. Its advance agents are
colds and grip. In any attack by one
f these maladies no time should be
lost In taking tbe best medicine ob
tainable to drive It off. Countlest
thousands hav. found this to be Di
King's New Discovery. "My husband
believes It baa kept him from having
pneumonia three or four times,'
writes Mrs. George W. Place, P .w
sonvllle, Vt "and for coughs, .oldt
and croup we have never found Its
equal." Guaranteed for all bronchial
affections. Price GO cents aud $1.00 j
Trial bottle free at all druggists.
jShoe Repairing!
j A U Grando shoe repairing man I
J seriously alarmed about those
holes in your shoes, you ought to J
make a call to H. II. Gi lder's shoe J
I shop and have, those holu doctored I
J before the effects get into your
I system and give you two-thirty J
I consumption.
J T have moved into Mr. Wine's liar- i
ness shop opposite) Mr. Thome's J
s grocery store. All customers and J
S ml - . I . .. .
Ke-np-y, i
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friends are
see me.
R. B. G RIDER'
niS Monor St
Cunning Trap That Mad the SavJje
Brut Helpless.
Trups for wild animal ure not neces
sarily of steel. The uuthor of "The
Journal of a SKrtln Nomad" de
icrllteft a hyenu trap that Is simple and
effective:
"Close to the station at this place 1
found a novel form of liyena trap a
round piece of dried ox hide as hard as
a hoard, three feet or so In diameter. In
which a very small hole, no larger than
an apple, had been cut. ItiullutloK from
this hole were cut a series of Vahuped
pieces. The trap was set as follows: A
hole was dun in the ground alwut ona
foot deep mid six inches In tllnmetei.
Into this hole piece of moat was
placed. Then the ox hide plate wns laid
aver the place containing the meat, tbe
two holes being one over the other
The ox hide was then pegged down
with wooden pegs in three or four
places.
The hyena, on finding the halt, forc
ed his herd through the small hole in
the ox hide to obtain It. the cuts In the
hide giving way sufficiently for that
rrarpose. The twist seined the meat, hut
oil trying to withdraw his head had to
use considerable force. whln naturally
drew the pegs that held the ox hide to
the ground, the result being that the
poor brute bad collnr securely fas
tened around his neck which he was
guile unable to get rid of.
"He could not run or walk, and even
had he lieen aide to go any distance en
cumbered by such an obstacle would
have been brought up short In tbe first
patch of bush or grass he encountered.
He was now at the mercy of the Indi
vidual who had set the trsp. and could
be put out of tbe way uulte easily."
It Depended.
ITeiiry It. Williams when president
of the Pugot sound extension of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail-
roud gave a great deal of his time to ,
a personal supervision of the Improve
ments on the line, especially lieing In-
terested 111 the growth of the uew
towns and their various businesses.
Fie heard that n barber hnd located nt
Maiden, a division point in Washing
ton, aud iiiwtn visiting tbe plnce pro
ceeded to patronize the razor artist.
The barber lathered and stropped
and then took a swipe down the check
of bis customer. Williams winced,
whereupon tbe barber asked:
"Poew the razor hurt you, Mir!"
"Tlint depends." dryly answered the
victim. "If you aro skinning me it
doesn't, but If you are shaving me It
docs." Xew York Tribune.
,:.r..". 1 and Earthquakes.
The Arabs of Morocco believe that
the earth Is balanced on the horns of
a bull, will.''- Itself rests on a tlsh ou
the surface :f the scs. the sea being
borne up b' the divine power. When
the bull Is tired he changes tbe earth
from one born to the other, "with the
result that there Is an earth'iunke.
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Every Man Wants What
The Other Fellow Has
The Finest Harbor.
Port Jackson, at Sydney. Xew South
Wales, with n water frontage of over
200 miles. Is the llucst harbor In tb
world.
They used to "spark," did he an4 she.
Each night ere they were wed
And now they "blaze" out frequently,
'Tla by the nelghhora said.
Iloaton Kvenln( Transcript.
The Artist I think I've got good
joke this time, what?
Tbe Kdltor-You're right It is a
good Joke. I always laugh at this on
before I reject it. Done It for years.
Sketch.
The oyster In the stewnan stirred
Attended strictly to hla bis
And never said a single word.
And yet see what his finish la!
Washington Post.
Blobbs Does Longtow ever tell the
truth?
Blobbs Well. I eanght hlra In the
truth once, but he tried to He out of it.
-Philadelphia Record.
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The fly looked around at her progeny
As they swarmed tip the walls and stairs
And proudly smiled. "Well, tt seems to
tue
X. t I .m i .v o '"rne-e.
For t rnk with the mllllon-helrs "
-H.rtKT s Weekly.
A great many people own some real es tate but they know of some other prop
erty that they would rather have. Farmers dig a fortune from the soil and
then move to the city. The business m an retires from a successful commer
cial life to live on a farm.
We recently traded a hotel in Kansas for a Grande Ronde farm. Exchange
s between local people occur very frequently. Although cash is the surest
means of securing bargains in real estate, yet it is so natural .to "covet thy
neighbor's property," that if you own some real estate but desire a change
you probably will be able to transfer what you have for what you want.
Exchange in real estate usually results in a material gain to both parties; not?
only on account of better satisfaction, but also due to the use made of the
property. '
80 ACRES AT $100 PER FRUIT TRACTS
Fine alfalfa land, 4 room house, We have orhards of all sizes- kinds
barn, windmill. Will sell either for- and prices. Some of .these are for
ty separately. Will exchange for trade, others are on easv terms while
city property. , s0ie demand cash. "
HOME ON ADAMS AVE. $6oo CASH
" room house, barn, good location, and balance on easy payments, or
$1000 down, balance on easv terms, r'iU exchane for country property.
' ' o room modern house, lot 120x110. A
or will trade for country property. nice home listed at $1500
GEO. H. CUR REV
REAL ESTATE
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