LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
Tuesday, January 20, wu
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editur and Owner.
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And Now Comes the Climax of Safe Bargains at WesFs
Entered la the post-flkc at
Graade, Oregon, aa second
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THE OBSERVES, 1710 Sixth Street.
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SUBSCRIPTION BATES.
.Daily, single copy .... ...5c '
DJy. per week 15c
Daily, per mumlk CScji
Daily, per six awita ia ad-
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Bally, by mall per year la ad-
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Weekly Obi ;rer, per year in., if
advance
ANDERSON SUSTAINS WEST. I
Light the boa fire and get out the J
Unci - .
Bring forth CoL Lawson who can' J
kill a rat and never look at the rat. j
Take Your Choice of Our Entire
Line of
Ladies' Coats
For
$9.90
Prepare the chariot and four white
horses to transport the governor and
Miss Hobbs. .-
Shoot off the sky rockets and ring
the bells.
' why? .. .. ....
Jodge Anderson, of Baker county, ,J
has sustained West. . - -
Sustained him in what? !
In jumping on Copperfield the
frontier town on the Snake river.
As the parade files past the court
Iti those fearful CoDtterfieldianB be
burned in effigy; let Baker county be ----------------------..-..-......
clothed in white and proclaim to the j
world that she has been purified; that
she is the only pure mining section in
ine universe. i;iap your hands in
praise, foe chr millenium has been
ushered into Eastern Oregon with
alias Hobbs and the colonel in com
mand. V. :c ,
But look
Another parade It is partially hid
by silk laces, high priced draperies
and tinsel. Look closely A float car
rying a Western Oregon hotel, and a
poker game in progress, on every
floor; another float it is Western
Oregon's white slave traffic; still an.
other it is the well-dressed influen
tial saloon men of Portland selling
liquor on Sunday; yet another
The state house at Salem filled with
numberless clerks and commission;-,
grabbing the taxpayer's money in
purely "legal" manner.
No martial law in the Willamette
valley. Oh, no.
What a farce. How easily some
are fooled.
Includes AbsolutelyEvery Coat
ihloreff romT$20.00T to
$40.00. None Reserved .
Take Your Choice of Our Entire
Line of Ladies. Newest
For .1
$9.90
We Must Clear The Racks of
Every Suit In The Store Imme
diately - Hence This Offer On
Suits That Sold Regularly Up to
Wesfs Sixteenth Annual Clearance Sale
BETTERING THE POSTOFFICE.
A change in the poetoffice money
mder system is promised by which
such an order may be collected at any
rffiee instead of merely the one on
which it is drawn, simply by the en
dorsement of the payee. It is said
that the express companies are op
posing it But then we have them,
always with us, the promoters of the
plan argue, so that the opposition is
rather in the nature of reason for ap
proval, and should have the effect of
hastening the change which would
make postoffice orders like a check,
oe rather a certified check for the
government order would insure that
the drawer had deposited the amount
called for, whereas uncertified checks
are every day sent and taken on honor
that the drawer has the amount asked
on deposit. No careful thought on
the subject can,we believe, arrive at
any other conclusion than that this
change should be made. It seems
like an anomaly that this govern
ment of a continent should . compel
a holder of a promise to pay to hunt
out just the one postoffice, before he
can get his pay. . '
The proposed ch would give
currency to this class of checks or
orders, and that is just what they
have lacked since they were instituted.-''.:'.
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There ought also, with this reform.
to be another, and that is to reduce
the price of an order to a sum merely
nominal. The government, it should
La Grande National Bank
Organized in 1887.
BESIVSaTED DEPOSITORY OF UNITED STATES G0YXK5KEST.
CKITED STATES POSTAL 8ATIXG9 DEPOSITOR!.
Capital IIOO.KK.O
Surplus ., U0,8 .0
Total Resources tl.OOO.OOO.O
For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
successfully catered to the monetary wants of people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley.
We respectfully solicit your business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
be remembered, reaches with its post
office, regions that cannot be served
ly other conveniences, and hence the
people roundabout must rely on this
service. So orders should be made
nominal in their cost, something like
a letter, and be endorsable so as to
give them currency. If this should
be done to a proper extent we should
thereby institute another reform thai
has long been asked in vain, and the
lack of which has been a reproach
to us; that is, a means of sending
small sums by mail. ,
To think of a continent cf a hun
dred million of people still using
stick postage stamps as currency of
value for small sums is almost in
crediblt. We should be able to buy
from the government checks or or
ders as we buy postage stamps in
various small amounts, and for use
fill these in with the name - of the
payee. With bank notes or green
backs, with endorsement, there is no
trouble or confusion. What is le
prevent us from making certificates
for' smaller sums, to be transmitr-jl
by mail, to a person whose endorse
ment would make it acceptable? Of
course all this has been discussed
time and time again, and no good
reason has ever been brought against
it We do not do it simply because
we do not, and yet we lay claim to
being the most practical people on
earth.
WASHED UP BY THt WAVES
Innumerable Article, Many of Value,
Reward Search Made Along the
New York Beaches.
Along the beach at Manhattan and
Brighton, as well as at the Rockawaye,
articles aggregating $100 in value are
picked up every morning, relates the
New York Herald. And this amount
is considered by the regulars along
those shores to be a very conservative
estimate. .
The articles found range from the
gold filling of a tooth to a cork leg.
And you need not think the cork leg
statement is drawing It with a . long
bow. There was one washed ashore
the last week in June.
It belonged to James J. Fitzeim
mons, cook' on a Maine coasting
schooner. Fitzsimmons bad removed
it, so It came out afterward in a Wa
ter street tavern, so that he might In
dulge in a bath. The schooner lurched.
So did the cork leg. Fitzsimmons
wailed an alarm, but the skipper, be
ing in a hurry to make a Maine port
at a particular hour, refused to luff
and pick the leg up. So it washed
ashore and Its identity was revealed
by a brass plate containing the own
er's name and New York address. It
was sent back by parcel post ..
Every now and then a wig is picked
up. The supposition Is that the owner
was swimming at night and was over
confident that his top piece would re
main on his head when be dived. Lock
ets and chains are found in numbers.
It is likely they are kept on the neck
by girls and women when they don
bathing costume and slip off when
their owners are frolicking in the
wavee. Of course they are dropped
close to the shore line or they would
never be seen again. The constant
rolling shoreward of the waves grad
ually forces them Into view.
Watches, chains, finger rings, scarf
pins, cuff links, studs, eyeglasses,
belta, fountain pens, key rings, full
seta of artificial teeth, garters, era-
j vats, hatpins, canes, umbrellas, crutch
es, suoe ducl;?8, gold natrpins, purses
and scoreB of other things are among
the daily morning finds.
DARKEST AFRICA.
The lovers lingered long. At their
feet the noble Zambesi hurried oai
ward to the sea. It was in Darkest
Africa, but they were not afraid of tbe
dark. - . . . .
"No," she was cooing, softly but
firmly, "I cannot marry you on any
other terms. Paps says I'm worth
three yoke of oxen and a tame ele
phant, and I cannot become your wife
for aiy less."
"All I have in the world," be pro
tested wildly, "la one yoke of oxen."
For a moment no eound was heard,
save the ripple of the water. She first
broke silence. "
'"I think " Her voice trembled, and
her glance was bent shyly upon the
ground. ..
"Papa is willing to let me be a
sister to you for one yoke of oxen."
But he only groaned. Puck.
Read the advertisements toe.
. A Painful Reminiscence.
"Yes," confessed the imprisoned !
confidence man. "I have had moments j
of deep regret. I remember on the '
occasion or my nrst arrest I was
barely nineteen years old", He
paused for a moment
"Year put In the good old clergy,
man, sympathetically.
"I was bitterly disappointed to find
that not a single newspaper referred
to me as "young in years but old Is
crime.'" Puck-
On an Ocean Trip.
"That fellow gets seasick, but he'a
a game sport."
. "Keeps eating, does he?"
"Yes; he's had four breakfasts this
morning."
(Joaoq's
Phone, Red 3931. La Grande,
v FRESH- TAMALES AND
CHILI ,
- All kinds
of
HOT DRINKS
Ice Cream
Finest Line of
Fresh Candies
in town , :
HOT TAMALES, OYSTER
COCKTAIL, HOT BEEF TEA,
HOT TOMATO N ECTOR.
"Tea, Da Blood baa sees riding a
horse a great deal lately for the pur
pose of reducing flesh."
"That so? Haa la reduced his weight
audit"
"No. But you aught to see tae
none."
The Very Human Worker.
A curious type of labor dispute has
developed simultaneously in two dif
ferent directions in the shipbuilding
Industry on the Clyde and among the
ccal-trlmmers at Cardiff. In each in-
Bianco ue - trouble has Men caused
by the fact that a number of work
era prefer the enjoyment of their due
leisure to working' overtime, even for
a considerable addition to their wages.
They are not willing to sacrifice their
half-hoiiday In order to gain more
money by doing more work, the less
so aa they have to resist the nressure
of their womenfolk, who argue that
when the husband works on Saturday
afternoon the wire must work also in
preparing his meals and bith. Aoo
don Dally Mail. "-a.-
's Prem. Sugar Cured
Hams Just in
GRAPE FRUIT, ORANGES, BANANAS AND
LEMONS
California Rhubarb, Cucumbers, Sweet Potatoes,
Celery, Cauliflower, Beats, Turnips, Rutabaeo
Carrots and Cabbage, Head and Hot House Let
tuce and Cranberries
The City Grocery and
Bakery
E. POLACK, Proprietor.
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