La Grande evening observer., January 26, 1914, Image 4

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THREE HOUSE CLEANING TIMES
La Grande, Or, Jan. 26. (To the
editor.) Several years . ago Kansas
was under a house cleaning reform,
by Mary Ellen lease. One night she
was stopping in a prosperous Kan
sas town and took a room in a hotel
wherein a Masonic lodge wis located.
Her room happened to be joining the
lodge room annd it so happened that
a meeting was in session initiating
some new-members. She heard their
revelry -and mistook it to be a saloon,
and thought the occasion demanded
a much-needed reform and the oppor
tunity presented itself for her to show
her skill, so she set forth to do the
task. . As she stepped into the hall,
it being a warm summer night, she
discovered the transom open. ' This
appeared especially advantageous, so
she took from her room a stand and
placed a chair upon it and climbed up
on them with her big . reform stick
in hand. , It was similar to a cattle
prod or punch, and just as she was
going to wield it upon a supposed
saloon man's head her staging gave
way and she fell into the lodge room,
upon a new member who was being in
itiated and was blindfolded. Well, it
created a-commotion throughout the
hotel and a panic ensued nearly every
. one being awakened from their peace
ful slumbers. They scrambled pell
mell for cyclone caves. In the morn
ing when they discovered that the
town had undergone a severe house
cleaning, many a cry went up "give
us more women with the courage
of Mary Ellen Lease." " Now she has
the distinction of being the only wom
an ever admitted to the Masonic
lodge. Soon after she died and left
one heir. Mrs. Carrie Nation, and soon
after she received the coronation as
Kansas was e'ein and purified. She
thought it best to go to house clean
ing in her sister state, Nebraska, and
once when she was on a train going
into Omaha there were many return
ing from a cattlemen's convention at
Lincoln. The cars being crowded she
happened in some way to get into the
men's smoking department and spied
a cattle man smoking a very valuable
pipe, a gift from his wife and prized
very highly.. She grabbed it from his
mouth and threw it out the window
saying, "don't you know that it is
impolite to smoke in the presence of
ladies, and you are a good subject
that needs reforming."- This enraged
his temper somewhat, and spying her
little pet dog which she valued very
much, he grabbed it by the collar and
threw it out the window, saying "dogs
are not allowed to ride on the cars
with passengers." At this juncture
her little hatchet was slicing reform
right and left until is created such
an excitement on the train that ev
eryone thought the train was held
up by robbers and when the train ar
rived at the depot there was another
exciting time, she trying to get him
arrested and he trying to get her ar
rested. And what should happen at
this crucial moment! Her little dog
came running up uninjured with a
pipe in his mouth. "Oh, my little
dog is just ruined. He has learned
to smoke," she cried. Then a cry
went up, "give us more women with
such courage of Carrie Nation." She
now has the distinction of having the
best educated dog in America. ,
, She died not long ago and left two
heirs, Jn a little city called Copper
field, of about 49 inhabitants, encir
cled between high snowy and icy
peak, came an explosion for a needed
house " cleaning reform; A cry went
much of an undertaking for a man;
anyway,' he thought .house cleaning
was a woman's work, and knew that
women have-great records for making
reforms, so he pinned a reform badge
on a young lady aspirant, equipping
her with a good scrubbing brush and
some powerful cleansing condensed
soap and instructed her to go forth
and scrub Copperfieid, clean, pure and
white. ' ; 1
v It is said that rats and snakes are
numerous in Copperfieid and the peo
ple there have quite a nnique and
novel way of exterminating them, by
taking a large barrel tank and sink
ing it into the ground and filling it'
with the waste molasses from the
beet sugar factory over from Idaho.
Then, adjusting a board cover with a
spring in such a way that when they
step on it, it easily tips and they fall
in and can't get out and as she was
hurrying to get the cleaning done up
in proper shape so as to take the
train home she did not notice the
sign to keep off the rat trap and ac
cidently stepped upon and fell into it,
needless to say this created a very
excitable sensation as the saloon men,
city officials and citizens were assist
ing her to get out of her sticky bath,
her terrific cries brought forth to her
rescue Oregon's army of soldiers, its
state prison guards and some of the
most expert gunmen of its prison con
victs, they arriving on the scene just
as they got her out of the rat trap
and not waiting to get any informa
tion of how the accident occurred and
waiving every effort of an explanation
they locked all the city's officials and
saloon men in jail thinking that they
were about to tar and feather her.
When they found out the situation
they said, "no more such rat traps
will be allowed in Copperfieid" and
now they keep an army and guards
and convicts to shoot the rats , and
snakes. They are experts, can shoot
them on a run and hit and kill them
every time if they see 'em or not
The rats In Eastern Oregon are not
like the Coast rats. They are hob
bled rats, a cross between high li
cense and prohibition and the notor
iety and cleverness of shooting them,
depends on one's nerve and in Eastern
Oregon the nerve, is :r.ot the same
either. But the rats are a capital tar
get to shoot at
Mrs. Hattie Chandler Stilwell.
Slaughter of the Innocent.
(Rose Trumbell now in Scottsdale,
Arizona, but formerly a resident of
La Grande where she lived with her
parents who were at that time the
pastor and pastor's wife at the Bap
tist church here, is attaining consid
erable reknown as a verse writer.
The following clipping has been taken
from the New York Independent by
."r. r.-d Mrs. J. D. Slater of this city,
&nd practically every corner of the
country has now: read the poen!.)
Editor's Note. .-''. i ,
"O mother, see the mill lights in the
darkness glow!"
"I see but candles for my dead
At foot and head."
"Nay, see how wrought by childish
hands, world fabrics grow!"
"I see my babes decrepit bowed
They weave a shroud."
"Yet see their golden wage: the purse
of wealth is deep."
"The tide of barter at its flood
- Gives bread for blood!"
"O mother, with thy visions dark, dost
thou not weep ?" ;
"For slaughtered babes upon such
biers
There are no tears.'
Bright Outlook for Kelly.
They were speaking of paradoxical
expressions at a recent banquet when
an amused expression floated over the
features of Gov. George W. Clarke of
Iowa, who was on a visit to the east
Ke explained that he wbb reminded
of an Incident along that line.
Recently there was a bad railroad
wreck in a western state, and after
the Injured had been cared for, a man
hastened up to one of the doctors.
"Doctor," said the man In an anx
ious voice, "is Kelly very badly hurt!"
"He Is, indeed," admitted the doc
tor. "We were compelled to ampu
tate both legs."
"You don't really mean it, doctor!"
returned the other, deeply concerned.
"Do you think he will recover?"
"Oh, yes," was the confident re
Joinder of the doctor. "I will have
him on his feet again In a couple of
months."
....LAST WEEK OF. ..
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Final Reductions Placed on All Lines
Here Are a Few of The Many Final Price:
Shooting to kill is notoriously a fine
art both in Kentucky and In Texas. No
wonder, then, that the best shot of
that sort on record should have been
made by a Texan of Kentucky descent
We may call binavlank. His enemies,
however, had other names for him. It
was, In fact, because a particular one
of these enemies, commonly known as
Torm. bad been indiscreet in this mat
ter of nomenclature that Hank had
extraOiled Us six-shooters and gone
out to take a walk in the cool of the
evening.
Torm was warned, and with his six-
shooters also extra-oiled, intrenched
himself behind one of the ' solid
brick pillars of the courthouse porch.
It 1 past dusk and the ; swing
ing kerosene 1 lamp In ' the porch
failed to illuminate the gloom of the
village street where Hank was with
bis nailery, wui it made an easy
target of a human head poked
behind the pillar, a it must be If the
owner were to dq any effective shoot
ing on his own account ; Torm wisely
stuck behind the pillar. Hank maneu
vered in vain. Wherever he stood, the
pillar was between him and every
bit of Torm. At last he gave vent to
ma aisguKi in uiese woras, aisuncuy 1 1
overheard by listeners well under
cover across the road:
"I see I've got to try a carom shot . J
or IH never get the coyote.". '
He carefully selected his position,' J
took aim at a certain spot on the brick J
wall behind tho pillar, end pulled the J
trigger. The bullet went true to the
side of the head, and killed him where ' " ' ' J
The story is vouched for by a mem
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News of an Ancient King.
Following his recent return from
Egypt to England, Prof. Flinders Pe
trie, the eminent, Egyptologist lec
tured before the British - School of,
Archeology for Egypt He told of hav-.
ing exhumed the mummy of a woman
that offered evidence that labor nnions
existed .6000 B. C. She was a mem
ber of a "union of cake sellers," and
the Inscription that told of her occu
pation also declared that she was the
daughter of one Apollonlus.
The latest Egyptian excavations un
der Doctor Petrie have been rich in
discoveries, according to the London
correspondent of the New York Sun. A
king who had hitherto been unknown
to history is now brought to the knowl
edge of the world. His name was Ha. i
No portrait of him was found, but a
clue to his existence was given by
the carving of a jar that was found ia
one of the graves.
' "It Is a scratchy drawing," says Fro
fessor Pctrle, "and was evidently dr;r.e
by a prehistoric man. There is no
mention of this king since Mesa, who
was the first king of Egypt; eo he
must have belonged to a date previous
to that and was probably short-lived."
Youth's Companion.
KILL BEASTS OF PREY
FOREST RANGERS WAR ON
PREDATORY ANIMAtS.
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care Observer.
8hlp Struck In a Hayfield.
The remains of an excursion steam
er may be seen in a hayfield three
hundred feet above the lake of Loen.
In Norway. This oddly placed wreck ' stroy about 13,000 worth of stock per
Is the sole relic of a terrible land- annum and that one able-bodied wolf
Not Only 8ave Stockmen Many Thou
' sands of Dollars Yearly, but Afford
Protection to the Milder
Class of Game.
During the past fiscal year 4.6S6
predatory animals were killed by fed- j
eral officers on the national forests, ac-1
cording to an actual count of car-!
casses. An indeterminate number of
animals, whose bodies were not found, I
are presumed to have died from poi-J
son. V " -
The ranger's bag of beasts of, prey
this year, as shown by forest service
figures, was made up Of 206 bears,
ZM1 coyotes, 133 mountain Hons, 62
lynx, 883 wild cats, 64 wolves and 97
v.df pups. The figures indicate that
the national forests are becoming
cleared of wild animals that prey upon
domestic live stock and game, for the
forest ranger fills in odd moments be
tween other jobs by thinning out "un
desirable citizens" of the animal world.
Wolves are said to cause greater losses
to western ' stockmen than any other
of the predatory animals. It is esti
mated that a family of wolves will de-
slide which took place in 1996, when
the whole side of a mountain sudden
ly slipped Into the lake, raising a
great wave more than 300 feet bigbi
which drowned everybody living along
the shores, more than 60 people per
ishing. The steamer, which was
moored on the lake at the time, was
carried on the crest of the wave over
a perpendicular cliff and deposited,
as already stated, more than 300 feet
above the normal level of the water,
more than a quarter of a mile away
from its anchorage. It is a torn and
battered wreck, every bit of wood
work has been wrenched off, and the
twisted steel work testifies to the
force of the wave which cast H
ashore. Wide World Magazine,
Not Much Doubt
Several Americans in London re
cently applied to an agency for an
automobile in which to go sightsee
ing. There was difficulty In getting
one on such short notice, but when
the hour arrived a luxurious limou
sine car was placed at their disposal.
The chauffeur proved very informed.
costs the grazing Industry $600 a sea
son. The wolves are of two classes
the smaller prairie wolves or coyotes
and the larger gray, black, or timber
wolves, called "lobos." These latter are
the great stock destroyers against
which the campaign of the rangers
has been waged.
The methods of hunting wolves in
the west vary. On the plains wolves
are sometimes hunted with dogs and
horses, but this way is considered
expensive and often dangerous. This
sport is described by Roosevelt in his
earlier hunting books. On national
'forests the rangers either set out poi
son or baited steel traps or, by watch
ing trails and hiding near a wolfs den,
are able to Bhoot one, or both of the
old wolves when they return from
foraging. In no other way, according
to the forest service, can the number
of wolves be kept down so well as by
finding their dens and destroying the
young.
The skins of the predatory animals
killed by the rangers are either kept
as souvenirs or sold for a price or for
bounty. Wolf skins in the west are
When they returned they remarked .said to bring from $4 to $6 for robes
mat tney had never had such a cor
or such a driver.
"Well, it Is not often that one like
this is for hire," was the reply. "Did
you notice the coat of arms on the
door? That automobile belongs to
Lady ," naming cce of the wealth
iest American heiresses married to an
English peer, "hut she is out of
town." 1
The Americans who had the use of
Lady s car are wondering wheth
er she or the chauffeur enjoyed the
profits.
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and rugs; a mountain lion skin, $10 to
20; and a bear skin, anywhere from
$20 to $150, according to size and spe
cies. In addition to this there are
bounties 'on bears, Hons and wolves
in most of the western stock states.
Wyoming, in ten years, has paid out
it Is said, over $65,000 in bounties on
wolves alone and $95,000 more on
coyotes and mountain Hons. Through
his activity against these pests the
forest ranger, it Is said, has saved
the stockmen many thousands of dot
lars during the year, while the pro
tection to game animals, such as deer,
elk and antelope, is of almost equal
importance.
1914 FORD
IS HERE
LET US DEMONSTRATE TO
YOU THAT IT IS THE EAS
IEST RIDING CAR ON
EARTH
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La Grande National Bank
Organised in 1887.
DESISTED DEPOSITORY OF UltlTED STATES GOYERKKEST.
CATTED STATES POSTAL 8AYLN6S DEPOSITORY.
Capital ......... $100.000.00 '
Surplus $140,00.00 ,
Total Resources ....... $LW0.00a0U j
For twenty-six years, in all kinds of financial weather, we havs
successfully catered to the monetary wants ef the people of La
Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. '
We respectfully solicit your business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon