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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913,
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FINAL CLEARANCE
' l ;- OF ALL WOMEN'S AND MISSES'
Ready-to-Wear
$9.90
Takes your choice of all this season's best suits and coats
One lot Suits and Dresses. Your choice fkf
at the Remodeling Sale O.W.;
West's Remodeling Sale
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner
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Daily, per .Month ''. ....... . ."; ' 6Gc
. Dally, per six months ia ad- i
! vance ......... $3.50
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Dally, by mril per . year in ad ,;'' --
ranee ..v . ...... $4.00
Weekly Observer, per year in .''
. advance HJS0
Axtvertlslng rates on application. AH
copy "for display advertising must
' reach the office the day before tlie
, ad appears. ,
Address all communications to
TOE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St.,
La Grande, Oregon. ..'
HUMORING THEIR CUSTOMS.
George Kennan, staff writer for the
Outlook, has in a recent issue an arti
cle on our trade with China which is
of interest to all coneernes exporting
their goods beyond the national boun
daries. . The point made in this arti
cles is that American business men in
the far east are being beaten by the
Germans and the Japanese simply be
cause the latter take .the trouble to.
httmor the whims and notions .of their
oriental customers. ' " '
' The point is illustrated by a story
from which' the title of the article
"Crews in Blue Paper and "Our Trade
. with China" is taken. It seems that
' some time ago a Chinese wholesale
' dealer went to an American commer-
cial agent in one of the treaty ports of
China and announced that he was
about to place an order for a large
quantity of assorted screws He was
shown samples, given prices and seem
ed to be satisfied with both. He ob
jected, however, to the color of the pa
per in which the screws were wrapped.
This paper was brown He wanted
blue.
Instead of humoring him in the
whim and telling him that be would
make the change desired the American
agent attempted to argue The result
was that the Chinese merchant 'went
to a. German who told him that while
he could not deliver screws in blue pa
per immediately be would if given a
! little time. He secured the order and
the man's steady custom. .
; The preference of" the customer for
blue paper, is of course, hard to un
derstand. After all he was - buying'
screws, .not paper, as the American
pointed eat At the same time, those
asking for trade cannot make-over
the peculiar orientals to suit them
selves. The Germans and Jape do
not try. , They pleasantly adjust them
selves to the most mysterious and non
sensical requests. ;
All over the world consular agents
report that American .exporters show'
a pronounced unwillingness to respect
local, prejudices and whimsicalities In
the little things that make for friend
ship and good will If this country is
to have a large foreign-trade it must
change its tactics or be outstripped
by those willing to take their custom
ers as they find them.
Baltimore woman chased a thief
who .stole her husband'B trousers the
other .night. Every wife should have
the first chance to go through her
husband's trousers.
A skunk farm has been started
near Utica, N. Y., which only goes to
show that riot, all of the skunks are in
New York politics.
But it will be a pretty nifty exposi
tion at San Francisco if no nation
takes part in it excepting the United
States.. .
Occasionally the poor workingman
irets his. Texas is raisin? a fund of
150,000 to present to Secretary Bry
an. " '
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Wonder if the increase in the price
of silk will have any effect on race
suicide. .'',
A JUST KICK.
La Grande, Aug. 19. To the Edi
tor) Ladd Canyon taxpayers are ap-
The Test of Time
Time determines whether the policies under which a bank la oper
ated are safe. ,
.
This bank has boon In business twenty-six years.
It has grown steadily until It has become one of the atronges'. and
most prospermia financial Institutions In the West.
The soundness.!.. nolleles Is attested by the lniifr list of conserv
ative business n.'u w. . transact their business here; also by an
earned surplus of ;y-ii. . ...no, the work nf time av.1 the rna'ilt of
conservative manasoroMi
This bank has facilities for tailing care of more high grade Vii--
neas nnd oilers Ih services to those who appreciate tho best In
banking. ' .
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon '
Capital, I00,000.00 Surplus, $130,000.00 Resources, UOO.000.OS
DESIGNATED DEPOSITOR! OF I'MTKD STATES GOVKIOMEM
UMTKO STATES POSTAL SAYIXGS DEPOSITORY.
pealing to the auto club t help get
the road leading from the Geockler
lane to. Ladd Canyon passable. There
has not been' one dollar spent on the
road this year and it has- been impos
sible, much of the year, and at the
present time the road is' in bad shape.
This is something unusual as this road
has been kept up and dragged by the
taxpayers. For two months it was
not in shape to travel ,on account of
the water from Ladd Creole fillintr im
the ditches which are higher than the
The parties say that the coming
winter the road will be imnassable all
winter if something is not done to it.
At the new ditch made last year, the
bridge is in bad shape.' sinkinir. and a
few months ago the ditch broke and
washed part of the. road, out and they
haillfvt few Tnarja A 1 J I
uu, miju uurafrou
tt without leveling. Jtjs impossible to
get through with big-load. This is
a disgrace , to any, .community; they
want the road dragged, and . rounded
up so it can be used in the fall and
winter. They claim there has beeri no
bridge building in ; this .district and
were snould be some money to spend
on this road and reauest the nral
public to help them get their just dues.
This road must be .fixed.. up for traf
fic, at once or Jtber will be something
doing. . - . , - ..
- y A Y- ANDREWS,
' !': v.SctTotarr Auto Club
HARRY THAW PRISONER.
. (Continued- from rage i.) . .
Bordeau thinks that he has the slayer
of Stanford White. No decision ha
been made as to what action will be
aken, if : any will be taken against
Thaw or whether he will be deported
as an undesirable person. Later he
admitted his identity, but at first he
denied his name was Thaw, No one
here can identify the stranger.
- Arrested on Train.
Coaticooke, Quebec, Auk. 19. Offi
cers today arrested a train on the
suspicion, that it carried aa a passen
jger, Harry K. Thaw. The man sus
I pected denied such as his identity. He
reiuses to disclose his identity and is
held pending an investigation. '
I Thaws'- Mother In Ignorance, '
I New York, Aug. 19. Mrs. William
Thau, KofnM la.iri.. .S , I 1
.... ww. v iva.uiK.uii9 UlurojIIJK IUI
Elmhurst, her summer home, denied
, i i j, . i ' ,
mny unowieage 01 me wnereaDOUts 01
her son Harry. She declared that she
had had no news from hin except the
; letter of yesterday in which he nrom-
i.sed to come to Elmhurst when he was
rested.. Before leaving she was serv
ed with a summons for a $53,000 suit
by J. D. Gleason, who was Thaws law
yer in the first trial.
FINAL CLEARANCE
OF ENTIRE LINE , .
Men's Clothing -
15.00
Takes your choice of any suit in thejstock
HURRY
Only a short time left to get these bargains'at '
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West's Remodeling Sale
WANTED A cook, man preferred,
-: for special occasion from August 26
to August 30. Phone Red 712. Adv.
PBDFOSEO lIBTEf PBESENTEfl Tfl LEGAL VOTERS
r or ,ine penerit or legal voters who voters can ahsorh nnrtinn. f h. v...
mtmj nwv nave time o oevow careful
study tb ie proposed chaifter,''the Ob
server will from time to time 'brumt
aaetionf1 of' the. proposed .commission
ionn oi government, in this way the
ter each day and probably become ad
ditionally acquainted .with the pro
visions of the document. Today pre
sents the fifth installment."' !l
(Connued. from Monday's Daily.) . :
shade and Other ornamental trees; to regrade, repave. replank, regravel,
recurb and otherwise eimprove the highways, streets, avenues, lanes,
alleys and sidewalks of . the City; to provide for the payment of the
expense thereof and to,leyy special assessments in the manner provided
In Section 10 of Chapter VI of this Charter, upon the property which is
specially benefited by such imnrovement .
. . ,,; Sprinkling Streets." "
Section 89. To provide for the sprinkling, flushing, cleaning and re
pair of any or all streets in the city and to pay for the same out of
,. the general fund, or levy special assessments upon the property bene-
fited thereby in the, manner provided in Section 10, Chapter VI of this
uiiwwi, iivrvijiuviurv But Lea.
' House Moving; Dangerous Buildings. . ,
Section 40. To prevent the erection or moving of buildings within
the- city limits, which shall be dangerous to the passersby or to the ad
jacent property; or .an obstruction to public travel and in case any build
ing or any public street shall become dangerous to' passersby, the Com
mission shall have power to cause the same to be removed or made safe '
at the expense of the property, upon five days' notice to the owner''
thereof or agent therefor;, and to determine by resolution when the ,
same is dangerous. Such expense shall be made a lien npon the prop-?
erty and shall be levied, assessed and Collected in the same manner as
assessments for street improvements and the Commission may regulate
the time and manner of, and prohibit the removal of buildings through
. the streets of the City.and may, designate the character of building
which may or may not be moved. '
. Regulating Poles; Wires.; Cables and Underground Conduits.
, Section 41. To allow, authorize, provide for and regulate the erec
tion, maintenance and removal of telegraph, telephone, electric lightt
electric railway and other poles, wires and cables, and the laying and '
use of underground conduits or subways for the same, in, under, upon'
and overfthe streets, alleys or public parks, and public grounds of the.
said city; and in, under, over,' and upon any lands, owned, or under the
. control of the city,-whether they be inside the limits of said city or not;',',
and to require "Jail, such wires and cables, to be laid in said conduits '.
or suoways.' .. . - . .
t; : ' Appropriating Monro. " '
Section 42. . To appropriate money and iny debts, liabilities and ex
penditures of the City, or any part or item thereof.-
Taking Census; Deaths and Births; Sextons and Physicians.
Section 43. S To provide for. a census of -the inhabitants of the City;
. to regulate the burial of the dead and require registration of all births
. nnd deaths; to provide suitable. penalties for the violation of ordinances
1 . enacted .under this power; to, create a Department of Health and the of
fice of City Physician and prescribe his duties. . ' ....
Regulating Storage of Gun Powder; Dynamite.
, Section 44. ;To regulate and restrict the storage of gun powder,
dynamite, giant powder, jiitrO-glycerine, oil and other combustible ma
terial, and to prevent their manufacture in the city, and to prevent by
all proper means, danger or risks or. injury or damage by fire, arising
from carelessness, negligence or otherwise. '
' . Duties of Officers. ' ' ' -
Section 45. : To prescribe the duties of all cfllcers of the City, other
. than the Coniitiissioners, either elective or appointive and to require
each to pive a surety bond for the faithful nerfomiance- of his . duties
;'' In such sums as tho Commission shall designate, the premiums on said
bonds to be paid frcm the cencral fund of the City Treasury. .
To Exercise Power.
Section 4fi. To exercise mi"h power and authority- ns may be (liven
to'tbp Cciimipsion in this Charter, subject, however, to the initiative,"
referendum and recall, (us now, or my hereafter, be provuied by 'the
general laws of the State of Oregon.) .
Powers, How Exorcised. '
Section -17. The power end authority given to the Commiss'cn by
this Charter, wherein th? sme wl-;;i eve-csd ;s mnnifinnl legislation,
can only lo exercised or enforced by ordinance, unless otherwise exprss
ly provided, but all power., nnd nxOiomv v;' eii to the Commission by this
Clmrtrr not amounting to ntuniclpnl leRs!ntion may 'be exorc's-.-d cither
by ordinance or resolution, in the discretion of the Commission, except.
n.. otherwise herein pruvided. And the Commission, uron concurrence
of any two Conimissiners may pass any ordinance or -resolution not re-pup-riant
to the Constitution ami laws of the United States and of. the
State of Orciron, necessary or convenient for carry in inta elT.:ot any
'power or authority ("ranted by thin Charter, except wherein limiu-d by
the provisions of this Charier. . .. ,
I,imitnti.-.Ts of Power.
Section 48. The Commission shall not lisve power:
1. To authorise or make any contract for continuous service for a
longer period than five ,5) years, but the payment cf a debt may be
.. limited in time not. to exceed twenty 0'0) years.
2. To grant n franchise, even after a referendum, for a longer per
' iod than twenty-five years. ,
' CH APTER VII.
PUBLIC UTILITIES AND FRANCHISES.
Public Utilities. .
Section 1. The City of" Ln Grande shall have the power to con
struct, condemn, purchase, add to, acquire, maintain, operate and own-'
all or any part of any public utility or any plant or enterprise, for the '
- purpose of serving the city and the people thereof for uses public 'and
private. Such power may be exercised in any lawful manner and shall
include the power to purchase, condemn or otherwise acquire any fran
chise heretofore granted to operate a public utility. -,
Power of City to Construct or Acquire. ' . ' . J
' ' ' Section 2. -The City shall have the power -to construct and acquire
in any legal way and to maintain and operate works, plants and facilities .
for the purpose of doing any and all municipal work by direct employ
ment of labor under the supervision of the City and may use "such works,
plans and .facilities and the product thereof, for the purpose of doing
municipal work of all kinds, and shall have the power to sett such pro-,
. duct for use in the construction of municipal improvements of the City.
It shall have power to provide payment for the whole or any part of
local improvements constructed or done by the City directly under-the
provisions of this section as may be provided by issuing bonds as provid
ed by Chapter VI, Section 4, of this Charter or by the use of any moneys
in the general fund at the end of the fiscal year. .. . , ,
' 1 Public. Utility Defined. .' V
' Section 8. The term "public utility" as . used In this Charter shall
be' deemed to include every plant, property or system engaged in the
public service within the City or operated as a public utility as Such
. terasv. are. commonly understood. " ,'
; . ; " ! ' Regulation of UtahMeai !
Section 4.;.. The Commission shall have general supervision and paw.
er of regulation of all public utilities within the City of La Grande, and
of all persons and corporations engaged in the operation thereof, sub
ject to the provisions of this Charter.
Publie Utility Certificates. 1
''Section 5. The Commission is hereby granted power to issue and
sell interest bearing public" utility certificates for the construction or
acquisition by purchase, condemnation or otherwise of any public utility
to be operated within the City. The certificates shall be secured by a
mortgage or mortgages upon such public utility plant, and the revenues
thereof, but the same shall not be a general liability of the City and
shall be paid solely from, the revenues derived from the plant or from
the sale thereof. - Such power shall be exercised only by ordinances which
shall be subject to referendum in like manner and upon Jike terms and
conditions as ordinances granting franchises. 4 -
Investigation of Public Utilities. !
.' Section 6. The Commission shall have the power to investigate from .
time to time, and whenever they shall deem that the public service,
health or welfare require it, the affairs, business and property-of any -'
public utility within the City. For that purpose they have the right to
. compel' attendance, of witnesses and the production of bdoks, papers and .:
records, and of entry in person or by authorized agent upon any prem
ises or places of any person or corporation engaged in the operation of "
- a public utility. They shall have the power to control, regulate afed order
such changes, improvements, extensions, additional facilities, appliances '''
or equipment in or upon the plant and property of any person or cor- ;"
: poration operating public utilities within the City as may be deemed nec- : i
' esf ary to promote the public interest, convenience or 'Safety, and to pro- '
tect its employees in the construction, maintenance or operation of any '
such, public utilities. Every! charge, rate, fee or compensation made,
. charged or demanded by any person or corporation engaged in tMe '
operation of a public utility within the City of La Grande for any ser- :.
, vice rendered or to be rendered -shall be just, fair and reasonable. The
Commission shall have power to hear and determine what is just, fair
and reasonable rates, fees and charges and to fix and limit such rates, :.
fees and charges and for that purpose may make valuations of the : -property
of any person or corporation engaged in the operation si a pub-
lie utility within the City.
To that end they may make and enforce regulations providing that
at any time of construction or acquisition of any plant, or property ren
dering a public service and of any improvement or additions thereto the
person or corporation having charge thereof shall record with the City
Recorder a description of all property which such person or corporation :
shall intend to present for such valuation and all later improvements '
when made, together with full information as to the cost thereof and
vouchers supporting the same, to the end that a complete record of all
property to be valued under this section shall be at all times available.
Public -Utility Shall File Report.
- Section '7. . Every person or corporation operating a public utility
within the City rendering service to be paid for wholly or in part by the
users of such service shall keep full and correct books and accounts and
. make quarterly reports in writing to the Commission verified by such
person or an officen of the corporation, which shall contain an accurate ' ,
statement in summarized form as well as in detail of all receipts from
all sources and all expenditures for all purposes, together with a full
statement of all assets and. debts including stock and bond issues as well
as such pther information as to Jhe cost and profits of such service', and
the financial condition of Bueh grantee as the Commission may require.
Such reports shall be public and a summary thereof shall be printed as
a part of the annual report of the Recorder, and the Commission may
inspect or examine, or cause to be inspected or examined, at all reason
able hours, dny and nil books of account and vouchers of such grantee.
(b) Reports shall be made in accordance with forms and methods
prescribed by the Commissioners and so far as practicable shall be uni
form for all nrnnteos and holders. of franchises, and shall, except for im- -portant
and necessary changes, conform to such reports as are required
by state or federal public utility commissions. '
(c) Fvery failure or- neglect on the pr.rt of the prantee or holder .
of a franchise to keep books of recount or to mn!;. reports under this
section shr.lt be deemed an ofTense ami the Commission may by ordi
nance provide for the punishment of every such violation, failure or ncg- ;'
loct by line or imprisonmA-.t, or both, of the person or persons whose .
duly it shall be to hcep sn.-h books of Recount and make such reports. .;
(d) The enumeration in this chanW of prv particular or sWial -" .
power or d-ity. shall be const ntod as additional and snonlemontal to" any .'
and all otbe- powers residing- in or otherwise conferred upon the City of
La Grand by law. .
Power of Oimmis'Mon to Make Rules. ' '
Section a. The Commissioners shall have power to make all orders, .
rules nnd reiruV.tions necessary or ntvpropriate to carry into effect the
ppwe-s gmnted and to mr.Ve the sr. me effective by penalties and for- '
failures, ai-.d upon failure by any franclvse hc-ldir to ronwlv with anv
of the requirements' of the provisions of this Chanter for a period of
thirty (00) days after notice, the Commission shall have power to de
clare by ord nance a forfeiture r.f the franchise under which nny person
or corporation so failing to comply is operating a public utility (within
the City cf Ii Grande.
(2) Every such order, rule or regulation of the Commission shall
(To Do C mtinued.)
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