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i I I ' . T t - LA ORANDE EVENINO OBSERVER TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1913. .ooigM Arcade HGIDE.HHS 1 H M r r lis I 1 1 H r (J 1 1 LLL I L 11 1 U I i L SCENES WELL H WDI.FD PHOTO- HK.WI1I in t.. rLI.tl. Production of If is(ori-l Interest to lie Shown for Last Time l'ouli,l,t. "Salome," the three reel photoplay which opened at the Arcade theatre yesterday, created more varied dis mission than any attraction ever pre-f-nled at this theatre, and tht his toric accuracy of th9 euciro produc tion met with cordial approval. The tig scenes are wall banri.ua. the pho tography and effects are excellent and the anting Is up to tha high standard maintained by th famous Italian company presenting :t From the opening scenci to the cll aiax, when the head of John the Rap tlst was brought in and "Salome ' fnnced about It, the Interest never lags. Tb's photoplay will be rliown for the last time tonight. The pro gram closes with the ever popular Caumont Weekly and Terry & Frauk in vaudovllle. . Coming next Thursday, for one say only, a full reel of the Omaha tornado pictures. Bench Show at 'Frisco. San Francisco, April 8. More than (00 dogs of all breeds are entered tered here for the opening of the Golden Gate Kennel club's flve-polnt annual show which begins today. Mayor James Rolph's eight cocker spaniels are among the contenders for ribbons. Several hundred trophies the hung up.1 The show will close April 10. Mn. Fankhnrxt Vak. London, April 8. Greatly weakened y her refusal to partake of food the release of Mrs. Pankhurat from Hol-"-lnn is expected hourly. A worn has been prepared for her In a rivate hospital. It is reported today that M!ss Em erson who is due to be released to morrow, had suffered a nervous break down and Is In a dazed condition. American protects concerning the forcible feedtg of iM'lss Emerson caus ed Under Home Secretary Griffiths to announce In too bouse ot commons that her condition was satisfactory. American Held for Hansom. -Los Angeles, April 8. George Ja cobs, a prominent Los Angeles mer snant, is held fur ransom by Mexi can bandits, according to a message received by Michael George, a busi ness associate, from American cl'i aens at Calexico. Jacobs was captur ed while traveling from Calexico to Yuma with a consignment of goods. It Is understood lie was taken to a bandit ramp at Ensenanda, lower California, and $2,000 ransom Is de Kanded. Frcldmuno to Treat Cases. Provlrtem.-e, U. I.. Apr'l 8 To trcnt several' rases as consulting physician Dr. Frledmann is en route here from New York. He will bo allowed to ac cept fees and to treat private cases. Governor Pothler will officially wel come Frledmann this afternoon. He will remain two weeks. SEW JUKH IN SENATE. (Continued from rage t.) Minnesota sends .James Manahan. who won the suit that compelled the Pullman company to reduce the price cf upper berths. . He is out for the reran of Judges. Falconer of Wash iir'nn (Progressive) former speak , ' 'n state legislature. Joins forr Hlnnbaugh of Illinois. Il'.i 'I also be represented by Lawrence B. Stringer, Democratic jrlmary nominee for senator when !-( rin."r win iioacii. Culora-lo cou-trilluo-s JihIk'j ''0. J. Kindol of Don- j'i r. a vfinwiii att :mcv I a 'fonts' a;;iiliiht r:i.l:-c;:n!i. TV , i tiircsiiiio l:u" I!nItz "f "lim)!s- IVU'r c"R,'t 0',ry Hti,"lB ,slai"1 b'"' Co1-S:iint Klrknutr'ck of Iowa. Ilalz Is a farm- er. miller nml villiice hanker, whose -three daughters have come here from hard work In tne fl(Jjj4 atl(1 uary ot a German-American Homestead. They have never before ventured fif ty miles from home. Gerry Is a blue-booded aristocrat and "high-society millionaire" Col. Klrkpatrlck to a survivor of the Civil war and of two-two years of outlaw-chasing He says he carrier 200 bullets In bis body. Moonshiners gave blm 27 In one encounter. lie has arrested hundreds of gun fighters and killed a few. Then there Is "Eight Hour" Nolan recently secretary of the San Fran cisco Labor Council. Wage earning women- In California thank hlra for the eight hour law In that state, while Los Angeles remembers him as organizer of the metal trades workers whose strike culminated In the Mc- iiuiiiara tragedy. Attacking him v. Ill t- Albert S, Johnson of Hoqulam, W:!!i., who runs an anti-labor and and antl-soclallsfc journal. Massachusetts sends three new business men and a landlord to the lower house. W-lnslow makes skates. Gllmore sells groceries and Thatcher soils wool,, while Treadway runs a summer hotel. New Hampshire, for the first tlm eln half a century, is represented by . Democrats, one of whom Is National Committeeman Reed. New Jersey honors J. Thomp son Baker, who put Wlldwood on the map as a seaside resort. New York led In Walter M. Chandler, an ardent follower of Roosevelt. Judge W. A. Watson of Virginia, who presided over the Beatty trial. is In the delegation from the Old, Dominion. Patrick Kelley, former lieutenant-governor of Michigan, and James A. Frear, once secretary of slate of Wisconsin, answer the re publican roll. William II. Stafford comes back from Milwaukee in place of Socialist Berger, and Charles R. Crisp, son of a former Democratic speaker, recently parliamentarian of the house, is among the Georgians. Olknt If these new members are progressive In one or more lines of political thought. Personality will count on the house floor in the ad vance which the veteran progressives and the new recruits will make, be yond the points to which the White House has directed Democracy to go. vunousiy enough, tne senate ap pears certain to be as responsive to the people ag the house Itself. For once the states have sent men In touch wjth new Ideas. Lane of Ore gon, the moBt radical of them all. will specialize on a belter class of federal Judges. Thomas of Colorado Is In the equal suffrage movement. Vardaman of Mississippi Is. the hard est hater of big business tn the south. Sheppard of Texas Is a Bryan Democrat, ns Is Shaforth of Colorado. Ollle James of Kentucky and William Hughes of New Jersey are with the administration all the way. as are Walsh of Montana and Hollls of New Hampshire. rENDLETOX .HEX HERE Come to Inspect w Street Klusher, Being Themselves In the Field 'J. E. Montgomery, Charles A. Cole and W. H, MeConuiuach, a committee of Pendleton business men, visited Ij Grande yesterday afternoon to In spect the new street flusher being tried out here. The committee made careful study ot the equipment in ev I ery way and incidentally found time to call upon Secretary C. M. Hum phreys of the Commercial Club. Tlie city of Pendleton Is In the market fo rati uhser and are Investi gating the several makes. (lit! HT (01 KT I'M) Mi W W !Vt-t if. .VcDoiiifld Is Kxiieclcil l Kml This Riciifiig Some Mine, By tonight it Is planned to have the case ot Wesi aga'nst Alt-Donald, in which the payment for drilling a C. 11. Law Is coming up. That case well is at Ft,ake. disposed of, and to morrow the case of W. R. Yankey vs. Involves the sum of less than $20.00, $18.75 :o be exact, and will entail a Jury costing at the least $06 and con siderable additional expense. PA IX FIWEIBJAL TIH KSDAY. Date Erroneously Announced us Tuesday In Yesterday's Paper. The funeral of the late Mis. A. M. Paul will be held Thursday afternoon Instead of Tuesday. A. M. Paul, the husband, is detain ed Los Angeles by the Illness of a daughter but Mrs. Hill, another daughter, also of Los Ang-lja, is ex pected to arrive tonight or tomorrow morning to attend the funeral ser Wces Thursday. RED l'EPI'Blf NEWS Red Pepper School District. April 7. (Special) Lon Eyer has been of the sick list the past few days. Ernest Miller was a La Grande visitor Saturday. Miss Emma Heryford, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. G. C. Conley, returned to her home in North Powder Sunday. Frank Miller was a La Grande visi tor Wednesday. , A. P. Conley was a La Grande visi tor Tuesday. Mrs. J. P. Craney from Oklahoma City Is visiting with i.Mts. G. G. Con ley. A good many of the farmers are busy plowing, getting ready to plant their spring grain. The river is high, and ruuning out In some places. STARKEY ITEMS. Starkey, April 5. (Special.) A. Gourley of Hllgard is visiting with relatives at Mountain View. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sullivan visited in La Grande this week. M. O. Coombs paid a business trip to Perry and Hllgard on the 29th. He found It difficult to get over the grades on account ot the slides. 1 Miss Flora ' McShain and Miss Flossie Burnett enjoyed a pleasure i trip on horse back to La Grande the 29th to spend the Sunday. ' Adman Honor Guest. . W. A, Montgomery, vice-president or tho J. K. GUI company, gave a farewetl dinner In compliment to D. E. Bloch, Wednesday night. Mr. Bloch Is to leave for New York soon, where he will be connected wllth the advertising department of C. E. Sheppard company. In Portland he was advertising man for the Iocs' store of the J. K. GUI company. H has been employed by the Gill com pany for nine yecara. Guests at the dinner given In his honor were the entire staff of the company. Short talks were made by J. B. Hlbbard, J. T. Hotchklss and Hugh Montgomery. Portland Telegram. Mr. Bloch is the youngest son ot Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Bloch, of this city. Sotlre to Creditors. Notice Is hereby given by J. F. Con ley, administrator otj.the estate of Edward E. Conley, deceased and as such the administrator of the part nershln estate of said Edward E. Con ley, d' ceased, and James Garrlly, that the said administrator has died his undertaking In the county court of i'liion county, Oregon, fur the aumiu Istratlon ol said partnership estate, iiiMl all persons, hnvlg da'ms agaiuat sad partnership, are horeby no;lliod to present the same with proper vouchors to the said admin'straiur at the office of J. D, Slaier. at 210 Fir street, Ia Grande, Oregon, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated at La Grande, Oregon, this Sthjlay of April, A. D. 1913. J. F. CONLEY. Administrator. Dly Apr 8 13 22 29 may 6 Fashion Frills. The fair sex lire st lust going to wriggle out of n tight place If It Is true that Paris is abolishing the bobble skirt. New York Sun. "Futurist fashions" for women are announced. Whether they will mark a turn toward conservatism from the prevailing post-lmpresslonlstlc style re mains to be seen. New York World. Only the general spirit of the latest Parisian fashions in painting, not any personnl style. Is transplanted into the neT futurist gowns. The futurist de signer does not design a dress; she simply till iks of n dress and 'then ex presses In silks and tucks and hems the emotion which has seized her. That is all, New York Tribune. Current Comment. Denial, conviction, confession, seem to be the three principal phases of po lice activity In New York these days. New York Tribune. The death of another military avia tor, a Genua n, adds new emphasis to the risks of this branch of army serv ice. If these are the fatalities of pence what will they be in war? New York World. One notable feature of the new cabi net .is the contemporariness of the members. The oldest. Secretary of Commerce Itedfleld, is fifty four, and the youngest. Secretary of Agricul ture Houston, is forty-seven. Indian apolis News. Tales of Cities. - Chicago has gathered $61,000,000 from 1,024,000 persons who have in the last seven years attended conven tions In that city. New York city has as much life In surance In force as Chicago, Philadel phia. Boston, St. Louis and Baltimore all taken together. Berlin, flamlmrs. Munich and Leip zig are the Uv.xr biggest cities of Ger many. Dresden, though fifth in popu lation, has an area of 17,207 acres, while the acreage of Berlin Is only 15,005. The Cookbook. Fried bananas laid on a bed of rice make a good luncheon dish. Before frying liver dip each piece in milk, and then It fries a rich brown and is not hard. When baking potatoes rub dry and grease. This causes the outer skin to peel off very thin, thus saving the most nourishing part. For a savory omelet add to an ordi nary four egg omelet while cooking a tablespoouful of capers and a quarter of a teuspoonful of chopped parsley. Swat the Fly. Now the fly is confronted with an In er'iatlonal swifting campaign. Truly f Is almost as friendless as the man who forgets to register before an elec tion. Chicago News. Owing to the mild winter the house fly hasn't been frozen to death in the conventional way, and a large crop of summer pests is predicted. You can't keep a pessimist down! New York Sun. The New Art. A cubist foolish virgin ought to have no difficulty whatever In looking fool ish. New York Tribune. Some of those cubist pictures look like a desperate stagger at taking a snapshot of a nightmare. Chicago Tribune. The Society of Futurist Artists, Ac cording to Its Berlin organ. Der Stor-n. la furious because mere dressmakers are using It nam In connection with gowns. It wants Its name for Its awn "art"1 alone. Exchange. DAMES AK3 DAUGHTERS. Carrie Chapman Cult says that New York will giant ec'i.-il suffrage In 1H15. Miss Sallle liuiizi: ger of St. Louis has won a prize i f and u New Tes tament by ntieiiiling Sunday school er jry Sunday for twenty yeurs. Although she can use only one hand, Miss Evelyn Wclili. an Englishwoman, lias been awi-uled the special sliver medal of the London Academy of Musk- for piano playing. Muie. l.e Forest, the oldest woman in the employ of the Freuch postotflce de partment, bus been superannuated aft r forty-nine years' service. She was retired against her will. Miss Grue G. Van Elsellngen, the aecond woman In Holland to be ap pointed a iolice officer, studied law t the universities of Groulugen and Leyden. She Is now a third class iu lector in the public morula police de partment Sporting Notes. Michigan university's compulsory gymnasium squad numbers 858, a rec ord for this kind of college athletic work. The American regatta is scheduled to be held over the Henley mile and 500 ynrd course on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia, on Snturdny, May 31. The 'New Zealand Amateur Athletic council wants the Canadian Amnteur Athletic nnton to meet the Australian athletes In a track and Held competi tion in the Dominion uext December. The Revere bicycle trnck at Boston, nftor twelve years of service. Is being toru down and In its place will be erected a modej-n eight lap board track capable, it Is said, of a mile a minute speed for motorcycles. A Projectile's Gain ot Spsad. Experiments with Improved Instru ments for measuring the velocity ot projectiles have shown that the speed goes on increasing ufter the missile has left the mouth of the cannon. Leaving the muzzle with a velocity of 1,474 feet a second, a projectile has been observ ed to Increase its speed to 1,089 feet a second within the first sis feet It Is only after having traveled twenty-five yards that the projectile's velocity be comes reduced to the speed it bad on leaving the muzzle. This Is ascribed to the -Impulse of the expanding gas be ing felt for some distance beyond the cannon's mouth. New York Tribune. Moiittn the Buttonhole. Every man knows the difficulty and agony of a refractory collar stud. With a breakfast to eat, a train to catch and an appointment to keep, few things are more maddening than the collar which simply will not ally Itself to the stud, But few things are so easy to remedy. All that Is necessary la to dip the thumb and forefinger In water an! slightly moisten the obstinate button hole. Then the tud slips In without a murmur. I Now Is the Time for all I Good Men to come to the I-. Aid of their Wives 1 AT A VERY MODERATE COST you can equip I 3 our home with electric cooking devices, saving your I wife those countless steps and those hours over the I hot stove. I Have you figured what the NEW HEATING RATE I means. Let us explain just what it means when ap- pnea io tne various appliances, of which we carry a iaii line, Our line inchies ranges, ovens, grills, toasters, per- 1 eolators. Let us demonstratA them f rmi 4 I store or your home, without PREPARE FOR SUMMER I Waite Electric Company New Foley Bldg. Phone Main. 199. Bible In .Schools Discussed, Harr'sburg Pa.. April 8. Ministers and Sunday school workers assem bled here today from many parts of Pennsylvania to argue before the spe cial Judiciary committee of the legis lature the question of bible reading in the public school. The Lowers bill provdes that ten verses of scripture be a part of the daily proceedings in every public school in the state. The Tango Invades Denver. Denver, Colo., April 8. Now has Denver been stung by the wild, fan tastic tango bug. Tonight at the Proas club frolic, where the very smartest social lights will beam, the tango will be danced until Aurora peeps In from the east. Mrs. Craw ford and Charles McAllister Wlllcox will lead the grand march and then all the latest steps will be trodden. For the tango, special music will be (furnished and professipsal dancers will 6how the Denverites how It is done, so they can do it too. One of the new models in the $3.60 Gossard Corset I fit you with the correct Gossard made). You have only to stand in front of a mirror to learn how the natural charm of your form can be enhanced. A complete line of the different models always on hand. Prices $3.50, $5.00, $6.50 and $3.50. MRS. ROBT. PATT1SOX, Phone Bed 8221 Corsetiere Res. 1702. Cor. Spring and Oak. obligations ou your part.
