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."FRIDATf , ArRI L 7, 1916. I 'A GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAOE THREU SHERRY THEATRE I I TodaV Last Day 1 Wm. Fox Presents THEDABARA v Again the Sirenic Vampire - : in ( ; f "The Serpent" Written and Directed by R. A. WALSH This is a Greater Triumph Than Carmen ' TOMORROW Sis Hopkin 's Comedy, with the Original Rose Melville Notice to the Public The New Phone Book Is Out, and of course, before printing same I had to get in on the deal Main 82 and to put things right. I will notify you alLwhen phones'" are installed in the Mammoth Grocery The Middle Store. We ask you to have patience ; don't call central for the Mammoth Grocery until notified in The Observer, which will save the Phone Girlg lots of calls. Respectfully M th G ammotn orocery W. S. ALL1NSON, ProrietHV Middle Store, Middle Block, Easy Found. BIG RAILROAD SOLD Al AUCTION Cleveland, April 7 . "Gentlemen, TWshait am I bid -lor this railroad. Speak up boys. Here's youlp chance -to become a railroad magnate. This transportation system, (topping the rich coal fields of Ohio, must be sold. The highest bidder will get obese 530 miles of tracks, 9700 -freight cwre, 84 passenger coaches and 210 1 locomotives . What am I bid. Lively now!" Such in brief, was the announcement of Federal Judge John H. Clarke today. The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad has gone under jUhe hammer. This is no upstart fresh water line. Tt has been doing business throughout a tempes tuous career of 35 years. A victim 1 of high finunce, it is now looking for a new daddy. Some ono with plenty of money preferably. Tho railroad must fetch at least $18,500,000 Judge Clarke rules, or it wor.'t be sold. That much is need ed to discharge "underlying" indebt edness. Tho buyer must also assume about $18,000,000 worth of other debts, common variety.' ' The Wheeling and Lake Erie main line runs from Wheeling, W. Va., to Toledo, Crisscrossing it is a line from Cleveland to Zanesville. There are several shorter spurs. The railroad employs about 5,000 persons and has 12,000 stockholders, mostly eastern ers, who refuse jto contribute any more monoy to the line until , the fight far control is ended forever. Fo years there has been this fight, the Gould fnterjjsts keeping, the upper hand until recently. This fight has been one of the lino's handi c.fcs.. ;Anot(he has been ithe time worn game of refinancing with other peoples' money. Another ailment as diagnosed by experts, is "too much milking." : ; During 12 of its 35 years of exist ence the line has been dn the hands of a receiver. Twice it emerged triumphant, only to fall again in 1908. The railroad was built in 1879 by Can adian financiers who foresaw tho pos sibilities of tapping Ohio and West Virginia coal felds, carrying the pro duct to the Great Lakes. It was fin ally acquired by the' Gould interests, througihi the Wabash and Pittsburg Termmnl line, which controlled 51 per cent of the W. & L.' E. stock. So the Wjatash made a. through traffic agree ment which gave it 25 per cent of the W. and L. E. gross receipts. It was not long until the latter line was in urgent need of money. The present receivership was pre- cipiated when the line . defaulted in 1908 on both interest and prinicple on $12,000,000 worth of five per cent bonds pledged to tlho Central , Trust Co. New York, for $8,000,000 cash three years previous. Since the , in auguration of the receivership the road has suffered several setbacks. Floods of 1913 caused $400,000 dam age to equipment. - In December, 1913, the telegraphers struck and won demands for (higher pay. In 1914 and 1915 the Ohio coal stirike caused $2,000,000 loss an receipts. In prosperous times the road has earned $3,000,000 net profits pet an num. Its gross "receipts now are less than $8,000,000 per annum. Experts claim the road needs $15,000,000 to "tone it up" and make it a paying proposition. An interesting phase of the fac tional fight occurred when Joseph Ramsey, Toledo, former president of the Wabash and chief lieutenant of George Gouljd, oppo3ed his former chief a,nd,leading tho minority fight, was elected president of the W. and L. E. A. state supreme coulrt deci sion uplheld Ramsey's election. How ever, Ramsey was unable to secure sufficient loans to meet the finan cial burdens of the debt laden line. A striking example of business methods, employed with the W. & L. E. came to public notice recently. W!. M. Duncan, receiver, ordered re pair shops at Brewster and ironville, O. closed so money could be raised to meet interest on bonds. For two months the shops, wfhiich employ 1, 000 men, were shut. Much suffer ing was caused. Appeals were made to Federal Judge Clairke, who after visiting the towns, ordered the- shops reopened, not only to end suffering among Hhe employes' families, but also to prevent the rolling stock from depreciating. - ' commercial body hvGeimany, today said: , . . 'Women have taken tho places of men in every line. Most of our em. ployees in the Chamber of Commerce are women and it is amazing how well they take hold. Every ' store end every office ihos its women assistance today who do the work the men in the field used to do." "But vftt are the firms doing for expert salesmen?" it was asked. ' Women are now tho sales exDerts." : he said. "This is the day of tih worn ' en. Expert saleswomen are the pro duct of this war," ' "But what are you going to do af ter the war when the men return from the front?" "There will not be mudh competi tion then," he replied. "Our losses have been such thnt many of the women who work today will be need ed in their same positions after this war." PANHANDLE ROAD REVIVED Renewal of Proposed Rail Route to Eagle and Pine. SATURDAY YOU WILL FIND A LARGE DISPLAY OF FRESH VEGETABLES AT PAT- TISON BROTHERS GROCERY Spinach, grown in La Grande, at 3 lbs. for 25c Elgin Hot House Lettuce, a pound 30c Florida Tomatoes, a pound 25c California Green Asparagus, 2Jbs for 3oc Fresh Green. Onions, 3 bunches for 10c California New Cabbage, a pound 5c Fine Crisp Green Peppers, a pound : :.. 35c Home Grown Rhubarb, a pound 10c Radishes, fresh and crisp, a bunch 5c Large Sized Florida Grape Fruit, 2 for ; 25c Carrots, firm and medium sized,, a pound 3c Very fine Yellow Onions, a pound 3c Head Lettuce, California, 3 for , 25c Imperial Valley Head Lettuce, 2 for .....25c Southern Oregon Cauliflower, head 25c Parsnips, a pound A 3c BARRINGTON HALL COFFEE Has the proper "tone" for any taste and just the right shade of "flavor". Order a one-pound can with your vegetables. PATTIS0N BROTHERS GROCERY PHONE MAIN 80. Why Constipation Injures The bowels are the natural sewer age system of the body. When they become obstructed by constipation a part of the poisonous matter which they should carry off is absorbed into the system, making you feel dull' and stupid, and. interfering with the di gestion and assimilation' of food. This condition is quickly relieved by Cham berlain's Tablets. Obtainable everywhere. OLD PARIS TRANSFORMED i Streets Being Widened To Give More Air To The Bank Of France ! Paris, Feb. 25. The transforma tions of old Paris are not to be ar rested by the war. The President of the Republic has just decreed the wid ening of the Rue Valois and the Hue Croix des Petit Champs in the First Arrondissement, to give more air to the Bank of France. Part of the old Rue Baillif will dis appear under this decree to give room for the extension of the Bank. A new street will unite the Rue Valois and the Rue Croix des Petit Champs begin ning in the Rue du Louvre at the Bourse de Commerce, and running to the east arcades of the Palais Royal to give better outlet to the circu lation from the central markets to ward the Place de l'Opera. The cutting of the new street at that point involves the disappearance of the Chancellory of Orleans, an im portant artistic and historic rolic of old Paris, but the contract with the Bank of France requires the recon stitution of the facade of its new ex tension of all the iparts of the old structure that have a historical or artistic value War Developed Expert Saleswoman. Ji Leipzig, April 5. Dr. Wendtland, Chief Counsel to the Leipzig Cham ber of Commerce, the most important Baker, April, 5. Revivinc the nos- sibility of -connecting Eagle and Pino valleys with Baker by .rail, Alexander Allerdyce, representing Spokane and Lewiston capital, will arrive in the city next week to look over the situa tion, particularly in regard to the re turns which migfbt be expected from such a itailroad. Judge William Smith was advised by letter yesterday of Mr. Allerdyce's proposed trip to Bauer. The first installment in construe tion, according to present plans, will be from iBuker to Sparta, a distance of approximately 40 miles. Pine and Eagle valleys and Homestead would be later extensions. Electric power would oe used. . It is . estimated that construction would cost in the neighborhood of $1U,OUO per mile. To meet expenses, a stock subscription of $100,000 . in Baker, is- figured on, and together with funds secured elsewhere, the first 17 miles would be built. The 'balance of tihie Toad would , be financed by a (bond issue secured by the portion al ready built . ' : , Pills Best For Liver ' Because they contain the best liver medicines, no matter how bitter or nauseating for the sweet sugar coat ing hides the taste. Dr. Ring's New Life Pills contain ingredients that put the liver working, move the bowels freely. N0 gripe, no nausea, aid di gestion. Just try a bottle of . Dr. King's New Life Pills and notice how much better you fcol. 25c at your druggist. adv. : HAS UP TO DATE NOTIONS. Fugitive Chinese Spouse Dictates Terms of Reconciliation. Oakland, Cal., April 4. A piano. A phonograph witihi lots of records, chiefly ragtime. ' A show once a week. A well-furnished apartment in the cirv. If 'Lai Yeo Sun gives those things to his wife, she will return to him in Salem, otherwise she would irathor stay in jail. Mrs. Sun is itlhe wife of a wealthy Chinese rancher in Ore gon. Sunday night she was arrested as she stepped off a train at the Six teenth street station in Oakland. The Oakland police had been asked to hold her on a charge of grand larceny. She Ihad left Iher husband, the com plaint saiid, taking with her $700 in cash and more than $1000 worth of jewelry ' V Today Ralph Moores, deputy dis trict attorney, of Salem, Or., came to Oakland to prevail upon Mrs. Sun to come back and live with her husband. Mrs. Sun said today that the money and- jewelry was community property and that she forad a perfect right to it. She consented to go buck to her hus twind if he furnished the things enumerated. ' "Me no want to live on farm," she said. "Me like shows and city and Amerlican lag time. Farm too sl6w." Moores said that the chances are tihiat Sun will do what his wife asks. British Journalism ll-renresenl) The Daily Scoop. At whnt time did his lordship die?" "His lordship is not yet .deid." "Oh, isn't he? Well, then I'll wait." Passing Show. Insomnia Indigestion nearly always disturbs the sleep more or less, and is often the cause of , insomnia, hat a light sup ncr with little if any meat, and no milk; also take one of Chamberlain's Tablets immediately after supper and see if you do not rest much better. Obtainable everywhere. Centenary Observed. Washinirton. April 6. What the Coast and Geodetic Survey is doing for preparedness-, and what it did in tiha civil war. was told this afternoon bv Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, U. S. N., retired, in a speech at the convention in celebration of the sur- j vev's centenary. That the work of the Geodetic Sur vey (has been of general aid was testi fied Ibv other speakers, rroi. Wil liam Henry Burger, professor of civjl enfirineerir.tr alt Northwestern Uni versity, told what it has done for geo desy, nr. into migara iiuimann, nresident of the National Geographic Society, told of Jts international work. Dr. Douglas Wilson Johnson, associate professor of ceolocry at Columbia Uni versity, told what it has contributed to phvsical geograpny. ur. unarios Lane Poor, nrofessor of Celestial Me chanics alt Columbia, discussed ocean tides with reference to rhe bureau s work. The celebration will be ended this evening w!th a dinner at the Nev Wilterd at which President Wilsorv the Swiss Minister, Secretary Red field. Secretary Daniels and Dr. Thomas Oorwin Mendenhall, oldest ex-Superintendent of the bureau, are to be speakers. i . WATCH, For Our Announcement In Saturday's Paper A Complete Line of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables J. G. Snodgrass Grocer Quality Phone Main 43 Service Honest Prices REP PEPS PHILOSOPHY . 8.. Ihere isn't much sympa thy for the worm thofr .net! the early bird!' AUTO GLOVES and COATS , Motorcycle Suits ...;..$3.50 Perforated Cycle Shoes $3.50 Largest and best lines of Outing Suits and Riding pants in the city. We make a specialty of this line of goods. THE TOGGERY I . Andrews Bros. SPUDS $1 75 1 a Fancy Early Rose and Early Ohio $3.00 per Hundred Head Lettuce Hot House Lettuce Cauliflower . Rhubarb . Green Peppers Spinach Radishtrs Grapo Fruit Oranges Lemons , New Cabbage Tomatoes APPLE CIDER GRAPE JUICE PINEAPPLE JUICE GARDEN SEEDS AND FLOWER SEEDS 6 DELIVERIES EVERY. DAY Oregon Co-Operative Association 1118 1-2 Adams Ave. La Grande, Ore. ' Branches at IMBLER, OR. EVANS, OR. One Word, One Cent, One Time.
