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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1913.
I
MUST
PW TEACHERS
school fund being exhausted a que
I tu was raised whether the tonnty
I was liable for the salarie of the
! teacher for the remainder of the
jtar, and, if so, what fund the money
eoald b takes from,
i- Attorney Crawford concluded that
a teacher ta not a pubi c officer but
an employe, and that teacher" eon-
NUMBER
WALLOWA (Ol'STI CASE ARE
DLTIDED.
Ahertare ef Faads la Seheol Depart
awal Tall for Official Opfaiea.
Enterprise Record-Chieftain.
The to'ir.ty ia responsible for ia!
aries of county high arbooi teachers
for the fall Bins month for which
they were engaged. Attorney General
A. If. Crawford holds. In a letter re
ceived by Supt. J. C. ConW. The
enperintendrsit wrote, at a member
of the county blgb school board, for
an opinion a to the financial statu
of the school. The county h!th
1 trart fa the aame a any other con
tract of employment. la making the
contract the opinion hold that the
j acta of the board bind the count;-:
The opinion continue:
"It I therefore apparent that the
county ! responsible to the teachers
1 for their salaries for the entire year,
i unless the teachers accept other em
ployment and are thus not to a pos
! t!on to render the serrice called tttt
in their contract.
"The obligation to pay the tesciiers
: being one existing agaScsr the enccty.
the court not , having levied the
! county high school fund tax jiirt-ient
; to discbarge the obligation. In my
'opinion It ha authority, under re-
Let Us Protect Your Health
t. -A? 11- " .
dj punmg yoHr piumning m nrsi-ciass sanuary con
3 rtition, ronnfotmg it to sewer so V rill pa.?3 all sani
f . tary laws. ..
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Har ye aa unsightly Seer, rough, uneven, raJae4 r dirty? If
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Just like a aew aor and ready for any klad f a aatoh yon may
wish to nt oa It. Tb ACTwKATIC SCaUm A5B rt USHER
make them Ilk new. For particular call at room it Newlln's
drug building, or phone Red SMI.
G. H. RUSH Contractor and Builder
GARDEN SEEDS
A full line of first class garden seeds n display.
Now is tbe time to buy as our line is complete.
FANCY APP ES
Luciwla and Iioine Beauties
.500
OUR HOME MADE SAUERKRAUT IS SPLEN"
. DID
THE J00f TIII.N'GS COST SO MORE TIM OKDI.V1KV
TIIIOS IE VOL' KSOW WHERE TO BUT.
Stageberg Grocery
PHONE MAIN 70
TEGETABLES 15 SB VS05 ALL THE TIME.
D. R. FONG !
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f H15EMB HEMS AND
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Our wonderful life giving
herbs will absolutely extirpate
every Impurity from tb system.
No drugs, no poison, son-alto-
FREE CONFIDENTIAL
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Those flvlng out ot town can
cure tbemselve at bonie with
our kerb. Write to us lor par
ticular. OffTr near: tt li a. m.; 1 tj
I p. ta.
Sundays to 11 a. m.; 1 to
I p. ta.
Telrakene Mala 'ft.
Off Ice I .141 Adams Avense
, LA SBA5HE. ORFOOI.
Ktoa J7 of Lord' Oregoa Laws, to
f provide for the payment of mi deb;
' agalnat the county from the gDral !
' fund, and therefore caa transfer a f
ji-jcx:eo: amount rrora the j.ncrai
j fund to the coooty high school fund
to meet thl expense: or the funds
I may be raised by a levy for that par
poe to next year."
I Mr. Crawford eoncluds with tilt
suggestioa that If the district la
which the county high ei.ol Is sit- I .
uated Viiwi, ft can call aa e!-ci'cn 5ew Time Table a 5. 17 Is Aa-
and vote to ps-y the coun:y oblija- j aeaacH by Ike O.W. TkJ- Week.
fjr the re- April April 3rd. Xo. 17 will not
! tww No. 6 In this city. A new ached-
17
TO CHANGE
WILL AREITE AT :! AFTER AP
EIL THIRD.
t en to the high jccijI
ma'ning three mo".h
Sjnp! ef the Aaaaal Statement
ef th
bEEXA5 ALLIANCE INSrRASCE
C03IPA5T
of New Tork City. In the rate of New
Tork, on the 31st day of December,
1411. made to the Insurance commis
sioner of the state of Oregon, pursu
ant to law:
Capital.
Amount of capital stock
paid up $ 40O.ftO0.0O
Interne.
Premium received dur
ing the year In cash ..$ 613,219.2-1
Interest, dividends and
rent rev-eived during
the year 7S.020.02
Total Income ......I 689,339.26
Dlftbirsemrnt.
Losse paid during the
year 35!s89.61
Dividends paid during the
year on capital stock.. 60.000.00
Commissions and salar
ies paid during the
year 168,681.91
Taxes, licenses and fees
paid during the year.. 18,17.83
Amount of all other ex
penditure 6,774.48
Ttal
expenditure .1 609.983.83
Assets.
Value of stock and bond
Loans on mortgages and
owned $ 1.629.174.0O
collateral, etc 55.000.00
Coa'u In banks and on
hand
Premiums In course of
collection and In trans
mission Interest and rents due
and accrued
21.895.28
152.SJ7.S6
8.141
Total asse-s $ 1,866X51.89
fw srwclal dpo?i! in
any state (if any there
bel 22.400.00
Total assfts a;!mlttel
in Oregon, liabili
ties in excess of
market value of
sjiecial depog'ts ..$1,834,131.89
. Liabilities.
Gross claims for !oi
unpaid. $33..V?U9,
less re-Ins.. $234 314..$ 102.244.19
Amount of unearned pre
miums in all outstand
ing risks 46.071.14
Due for commission and
brokerage 45.970.00
Ml other llab Ttles. taxes
payable 10.000.00
Surplus 842.2S3.E
Total liabilities ex
clusive of "capital
stok of $400,000 .$ 1 466.351.89
Total premiums In force
December 31. 1912 884.S99.17
Rnlneft In Oregon for the Tear.
Total risk wrlt'.en dur
ing the year $ 30.237.87
Rmm premiums receiv
ed during the year . . .
r-orn Ty jnrned dur
ing the year
tosse paid during the
year
Louses Incurred during
tbe year
Total amount of rlska
outstanding In Oregon
D-rember 31. 1912 .... r.91.631
GKItMAN ALLIANCE IXSritANCfi
CO..
Ilv C. O. SMITH. Serre;ary.
Oeneral Axent for Oregon:
HARVFY WKLLS.
No. 321 Chamlicr of Coinmrc bWc
fonlsnd. Oregon,
ojlrfent agent:
Fecurlty Inveotircnt Company.
I.a Grande, Oregon.
42.477.06
7.877.42
8.022.S0
3.421.5P
Becrelnry P'T" vs he w'll "erl
Ms leisure hour r'dinc hnr?eha"
If he Is nvtiinr 1IV t'le old Hrysn of
private life there will not be many
laure hour.
u!e ha been announced on the 0.
the details of "which Local Agent
J. H. Keeney announces a follows:
aayjawiyiaaiawjiayaiaiga
Huntingtoo 4:20
6:15
6-132
6:50
7:42
7:51
9:15 a.
Leave
Leave Baker
Leave Haines
Leave North Powder ..
Leave Colon Juactioa
Leave Hot Lake
Arrive La Grande
Leave La Grande
eave Kamela
Leave Meachant 9:30
Leave Gibbon .-..10:30
Arrive Pendleton 11:10
Leave Pendleton 11:15
Arrive Portland 6:30 a. m.
This schedule will put La Grande
people Into Portland considerable
earlier In the evening than usual,
and gives more time for transaction
of business in Pendleton and inter
mediate points, tn a one-day journey
westward.
The new schedule is effective Fri
day morning.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
8:10 a. m.
8:15 a. m.
m.
m.
m.
a. m.
a. m.
SMALLEST BEAST OF PREY.
It Is a True Weasel, but Is Only About
Six Inches Long.
The smallest cnml.orous animal in
the world la an American weasel which
1h nunierumt In uurtbwest Canada and
Alaska and Is occasionally seen about
tiie grenl Inkes. It is a true weasel,
but only six Inches long, with a tail
only one inch in length. All Ita upper
surface fe In summer pure " umber
brown, but the throat, abdomen and
Inxide of the legs are pure white, and,
unlike any other weusel. It has no black
at tbe end of tbe tuil; hence, although
the animal turns white in tbe north tn
winter, it does not show tbe black
tipped tail which characterizes an er
mine pelt, and so it U not sought by
trappers and fur trader.
Till fad. with Itx small size nnd sec-retire
life. Ir.iH nude Its habits very
little known, but they seem to be much
like tlnwe of olher weuels. It feed
on inxt-vtx. whi. h It find alive in stun
nier nml in winter dix out of rotte.i
loy: ux)ii Mi-mil bin!, etc, but live
mainly oa ml e. These it can follow
into tticir narrowest h!"s nnd run
ways, fur It N M-isr ely larger than a
tifcld m"iLe Itself, or, strikitiK the mill
of one. It iil trire nil iu wiinileriiif
: net ,is S'i mi us It i-nU'Ue si'bt of l:
prey will iri::s after It with aiunzi.:.
hikI fatal npitlity.
It Is frei'if!itly caught by natiirt lists
in their mouse traps. An old Indinn
told W II. OknhI of the biological
survey, who thus i uit'.ired one lu south
ern Ala.-Ua. that it was a promise of
rare ohmI fortune. IIH brother, he re
lated, had taken one when a boy and
bud In coi)seo,ifen-e become a bijj chief.
A good tuitne for tbis least of tbe car
nivores would be '"mouse hunter." It
Is known to ient e as i'utorius rixo
sus. Harpers.
SCIENTIFIC PUZZLES.
Soma Queer Things On Ltarns In the
Study of Chemistry.
Every one knows that the diamond Is
only charcoal crystallized, but there
are a great many other things In na
ture that, though posaetwlng widely
different properties, are composed of
exactly equal quantities of the same
elemeuta.
Tbe white of an egg and rattlesnake
poison are formed of identic-ally the
same amounts of tbe same elements.
Tbe oil of res and common coal gnu
are each formed alike, both beine com
pose, l oi tutir atoms uf byurugeu a no
four atoms of arlxiri.
Sugur aud pun arable are likewise
brothers of tbe same weight aud tex
ture. Ail the hydrocarbons, known to set
eoce us a coailiinatlon of sixteen atota
of byilmgru and ten atoms of cartio'i
nre alike In their coiiiposltlon. T
enumerate someil of onmce. lemon
cloves, ginger nnd bhu k -per.
The suginvteil explanation of these
peculiarities is thnt tbe atoms are plat
ed l,iTiT-itly ti-uanl one another It
the molecules of the different sub
sta aces.
Other tliincs Just as pecnllnr are evl
dent when certain Kiilstaiicea are nnit
ed iliemli-ally. Thus hydroijen g!t.
which I odorless, and nltrocen gas.
which Is also cslnrli-ss. when i::i:!ih!
to make ammonia, which has n ven
strong odor, t'opjier. which hna i
ixl'ir. nail liiv. whkh also has none
when me'tcd and mixed to give lis
brass, prmliic-e a sulsttame with a verj
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