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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1916)
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916. PAGE TWO LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER DOWN THE NORTH SASKATCHEWAN Economical Outfitting For the Workingman It requires good judgment to economize wisely and it's altogether too easy to buy things that are merely low-price, and then regret it. MR. WORKINGMAN, buy your every-day needs at HILL'S and you will never regret. Men's Heavy Work Sox, 3 for ....... Men's Extra Heavy Work Sox, 2 for Men's Men's Men's Men's .25c ...25c Heavy Black and Tan Sox, 2 for . Knit Wrist Canvas Gloves - Extra Heavy Knit-Wrist Canvas Gloves 8c Extra Heavy Gauntlet Leather-Faced Gloves ;. . 19c Men's Black Gauntlet Horsehide-Faced Gloves 25c Men's Heavy Blue Chambray Shirts . : 50c Men's Heavy Work Shoes .......$1.50 to $4.50 Men's Khaki Pants $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 Men's Summer Unions 50c and $2.50 Men's Summer, 2-piece underwear - 50c up OUR MOTTO QUALITY AND SERVICE Hill's Department Store Phone Your Orders Free Delivery t0t 1 II II rr i mm 1 IB K J y ' Hid. ' 'H, -V- Vi.! ,'tZSLjt 'Air m4 1 if ft ' s FANNIE WARD, LAS KY-PARAMOUNT STAR. Who Is Feature Actress of Arcade A ttraction. ARC A DE SHERRY'S' Fannie Ward Picture Here. Fannie Ward, the distinguished American actress, will be seen at the Arcade today and tomorrow in the Jesse L. Lasky production "A Gutter Magdalene," a thrilling photodrama written especially for her by Clinton H. Stagg from tho story by Willard Mack. Jo is a Paramount program release. In "A Gutter Magdalene" Miss Ward is seen as Mnida, a young girl who succumbs to the wild wooing of Jack Morgan, a notorious crook. She runs away with him only to find that he cannot marry her. She tries to leave him but Morgan rules her by fear and she has to assist in the rob bery of Steve Boyce, a handsome young Westerner who has come to New York to secure the forty thou sand dollars as first payment of a rnilrond right of way over the Wyom ing mountains. Boyce is enticed to the apartment ly Morgan and his crooked pal, Hnl , Jin. Boyce catches Hiilpin cheating at cards, and in the fight which fol lows Morgan smashes a whiskey bot tle over his head. He is carried out into en alley, stripped of his clothing by toughs, picked up hy a policeman and sentenced to tho Island. Maida runs away. She finds her self attracted by a Salvation Army street meeting and a new life opens to her and she becomes a worker for the saving of souls instead of rifling pockets. Here the story grows in tensely interesting, and anyone who cees the climax win surely can it a good picture. . Use our Want Ad column. - Gripping, Romantic Story With Lion el Barrymore the Star. Lionel Burrymore, one of the most versatile members of the famous Barrymore-Drew family of stars, will be seen on the screen here at Sherry theatre today for the last time, "The Quitter," a five part Metro wonder play produced by the Rolfe Photo plays Inc. It is said to be the best feature ever produced for this gifted actor, and he is seen in supreme dra matic scenes and intensely humorous situations. Mr. Barrymore has been surrounded by an excellent cast for this production, headed by Marguerite ! Skirvin, a charming and talented i young artist who is on her way to ; stardom. Others in a notable sup j porting cast include Edward Brennnn, I Paul Everton, Charles Prince and Ju llius l. Cowles. The Bccnes for "The I Quitter" are laid in a western mining jtown called "Paradise Gulch." It is ja gripping story, teemine with rom ,ance, intrigue and delightful touches i of humor. It is Lionel Karrvmnm nt ;his best in a hitfh quality Metro won- oerpiay, which insures a positive and guaranteed treat. Among some of the interesting and picturesque scenes in "The Quitter" are the "Three Cheers" saloon and a typical western courtroom with a big trial in progress. Mr. Horan used many real western types, including Indians, cowboys, half-breeds and Chi nese. These genuine types were brought out of the southwest bv the director. Mr. Barrymore has oie of the hest parts of hi career in "The Quitter." (BV CHE-CHE-PE-TOE-I-GI) In June, 1900, not having anything very pressing on my hands, and be ing thoroughly weary of civilization, I made up my mind on a trip I had often wished to take front Fort Pitt, down the North Saskatchewan river past Battleford, Prince Albert, The Pass, Chineywagwin, the Grand Rapids and Lake Winnipeg, and a good hunt on English river and Ltvr iston lake. So I purchased a stock of grub, took my Winchester, 32-special a good double-bbarreled 12-bore and Jots of ammunition, dog harness, etc., an dstarted after engaging a half breed who claimed to know all the rapids. I took up two days to get t Battleford, where I went up to the old tsockade dpolicc posst; met a lot of the old chrps I had known back in 1881; got letters of introduction to other police boys at other points down the river. It took a week get ting down to Prince Albert. At this WALLOWA COUNTY'S OUTPUT. Railroad Representative Investigating the Probable Shipping Demands H. C. Oliver, of Portland, traveling freight and passenger agent for the O.-W. R. & N., spent Thursday and Friday in Joseph and vicinity, says the Joseph Herald. Although a fre quent visitor here hie last .mission has to do with a special investigation of the 1916 crop production possibili ties of Wallowa county that the rail road authorities may know in an ap proximate sense of the demands to o placed upon its traffic department when the marketing process is under taken this fall. As a result of the increased demands determined by Mr. Oliver's visit here last week, a daily freight schedule will shortly be in augurated to be maintained so long as the actual need is apparent. This need, unlike those of past times, will probably be great enough to insure a regular schedule throughout all sea sons of the vear. for in addition to an point the police tried hard to gtt me increased production of tonnage from n change my course, toning me i i.aa farms, the growth of the lumbering to go through five rapids, one after industry in, the county is adding de the other, which were very dang..r- mands for freight service, ous. I would not be persuaded, so j During the month of July 102 on the following morning we started, j cars of lumber were shipped to out The river here narrowed down from ' side points from the Enterprise mill, about three-quarters of a mile to a number that will probably be in about one hundred and fifty yards ' creased for many months, according wide and running like a mill strea.n. , to Mr. Oliver, who sees in tie Enter The half-breed was in the bow of the prise lumber manufacturing plant, an boat and I in the stern. At about 11 , industry that will thrive for a long o'clock we could hear the roar of the , time to come and is now only awaiting rapids ahead of us, so we steered ; he j a revival of industry generally to canoe onto a little gravelly beach and reach its maximum production. , walked ashore. After climbing up Mr. Oliver stated while here that the river bank we got a fairly good j Wallowa is the only county tributary view of the rapids below. It was just j to the O.-W. R. & N. lines that will like a long chute a little rapid then j not show a decreased farm crop pro calm water, rapid and :alm again, ex- j auction this year. Other sections are cept that each rapid was weise than ; experiencing the difficulties that fol the last. The half-breed got down on . Jow in the wake of poor farming his knees and began to pray to beat , methods, while here a high class of the band and begged me not to try j farmers, good soils, splendid climate it. It made me mad and I told him : and n increased acreage assures an I would shoot him before we drowned, j increase in production for this year Well, we got back in tho canoe and I ; ana many years to come. For this told him all I wanted him to do was reaion, he said, he had no hesitancy to paddle for all ho was worth and giving Wallowa county first rank that I would steer and guide it through. I steered for the side about ten feet from the bank and my heart was 111 Illjf IIIUUUli UUK IIUllM . j .... ,J.1. , 1 T would let any nan-Dreea mum i was scared stiff and I would not mind betting anyone that it did not take us thirty seconds to go through and we only got about a pail of water into the canoe. And about a mile j further on we got into where the river joins the South Saskatchewan.; Here the river widens out again, but i runs still and deep. Close to here ; I saw a bear feeding on fish or some- thing so I told the breed to turn the j canoe so I would he in front. I picked up the .32 and took a soft nosed bullet and split the lead with my pocket knife. Then when I was about forty yards from him I let drive, taking him in behind the left car and blew the whole top of his head off. We camped right there skinned the bear which was only a small black one but just as f:.t as butter and we sure had some juicy steaks off of him. We started next day again and after going about thirty miles made the Hudson Bay post of Fort La Came. Tnere I sold the bear skin for $12 and got $7 for about 150 pounds of bear fat, meat, etc. They told me that about fifty miles further down stream I would strike the Little Squaw rapids; then the Big Squaw rapids and the Death rapids and about two hundred milo3 further down to look out for Sepinook Channel and gave me directions as to how I shoul dknow it. The breed I had with me knew as much about the river as my little toe, but ho was good company and could talk many Indian languages. We used to con verse in French all the time. We passed the rapids all right. They were very tame compared with the first five rapids near Prince Albert. We also found the Sepinook Channel. There we left tho main river and took a branch, a short-cut to the La Passe Hudson Bay post. At the mouth of the channel we found a great cran- . berry patch. There must have been I hundreds of acres of it and bear tracks; they had regular paths beaten down, besides moose tracks, caribou, willow deer and elk. But a poor place to hunt because the swamp grasses were four or five feet high. Thin onuntrv will nt some future time be cut over for paper pulp trees are in abundance millions upon mil-! lions of acres. And this whole coun- j try every spring when the ice in the ' river breaks up, is floodpd for hun-; dreds of square miles. And I counted mrny trees, cottonwoods that mensur- ed thirty-five, forty or forty-five feet ; in circumference. j Two dnys after entering the Sep-. inood Chnnnel we made the portage ; to Cumberland house. Here I took a pot shot at a bunch of teal ducks, I black ducks, butter balls, mallards, j creese, swans, red, white and blue heron, etc., and five minutes nfter- I ward they would all be back again. We Know We Must Satisfy You To Hold Your Trade We Will Do That In Quality Price & Service TRY US Harris Grocery PHONE MAIN 70 FARMERS PHONE B. 192 408 North Fir Street, Cross Track in farming importance, actual and prospective, and of all the counties that pay tribute to the O.-W, R. & N. lines none offer the possibilities for homebuilding that are to be found here. The grain that will go forward this fall to outside points will all find destinations via rail routes, inasmuch as ship charters out of Portland are practically an impossibility now. The shipments will go unsacked. They may be bulked here or en route. Mr. Oliver says it requires 90 days to get a return of outgoing freight cars and that the supply of cars would j be adequate to local demands. When the time comes for loading this fall, the railroad authorities are anxious that all possibleHhaste be used. It is cited that demurrage charges of J1.00 a day are no object. Cars of average size in actual use earn $7.20 per day for the railroad. Postal Receipts Given. Receints of the Baker nostofflce have shown a big gain in a year ac cording to the announcement of Postmaster Foster. The gain in July was $561.64 over the same month of last year. "YOUNG MAN-GET LAND" "Land Owners Are the Princes of the Earth" Your Best I&nd Opportunity To Mak e Good Is PALMER L8ID LAND $15.00 PER ACRE, 1-10 PER YEAR, 6 PER CENT INTEREST - ? uCA ; WJV WM 'if - - -' VSV S ,V 5,Jf f1 Why consider subjecting yourself to the hardships of homesteading, the "red tape" of "proving up", the handi caps of high altitude, frost, poor water, and untried soil and isolation from the con veniences of civilization, when you can get a tract of Palmer Lands at these terms and prices and live in a settled and proven com munity, within 3 to 5 miles of a railroad, where there is plenty of rain fall and good water, an ideal climate and unexcelled soil. This Photograph illustrates the rolling character of the country, and snows me line pasturage, the stumps, trees and occasional clear patches. , " 3,000 ACRES OF PALMER LAND in tracts of 40 to 200 or more acres of as good or better land than any yet sold, well watered, averaging from 75 to 90 per cent fine tillable farming land and every foot first-class pasture, near abundance of outside range, within 3 to 5 miles of the railroad, Palmer Junction Postoffice and general merchandise store, etc., will likely be sold this summer and fall. 4000 acres have been sold; but this is less than 25 per cent of the entire tract and not over 40 per cent of the good farming land. Fall and Spring wheat, oats, barley and other grains, alfalfa, clover, timothy, Sudan grass, millet and other hays and grasses, corn, potatoes, peas, beans, squash, cabbage, berries, turnips, beats, and many other vegetables for feed and table purposes have been grown with execllent success- Dairying, stock, hog and poultry raising are now the back bone of this community-and are rapidly developing. AH this in the third agricultural year of Palmer Lands. Liver Trouble. "I am bothered with liver trouble j about twice a year," writes joe uing mnn, Webster City, Iowa. "I have pains in my bide and back and an aw- i Kil soreness in my stomach. I (heard ! of Chamberlain's Tablets and tried them. By the time I had used hnlf a bottle of them I was feeling fine and had no signs of pain." Obtainable everywhere. j A FEW FACTS Palmer Lands won third prize at last year's fair. About 25 families are now living on their places. Nearly 1000 acres of new land is now in crops. A dozen new homes have been built this year. The roads are in good condition. The grass is still green and pasture excellent. Both public and Sunday schools are established. More land is being cleared and fences built, Every forty corner is located and staked. There is plenty of timber for wood, fencing, etc. The soil runs deep, even and is subirrigatcd. The altitude is 2600 feet, rainfall 30 inches. A new county bridge connects Palmer Junction with Cricket Flat, 60 more farmers will ship there. Many new families will settle here by next year. Rural mail route, telephone line and other such advantages are now being talked and planned. Investigate at Oncev Write for our new illustrated folder, or call and let us show you maps and photographs and samples of grains and grasses grown on Palmer Lands. George Huntington Currey will be pleased to go with you or meet you at Palmer Junction at any time. Palmer Lands are the best new land offer in the west today. They are a real epportunity for a man with small resources and an ideal invest ment for a man with means. This is an ideal time to look over these lands, while the crops are still in the field. If you are interested in good land at low cost do not put off your investigation. Vou have heird people tell of the chances they have missed. Don't miss yours. This land that is now selling for $15 will demand $100 in a very few years. Arrange your affairs to look at these lands at once. Opposite Y.M.C.A 108 Elm St Both Phones' Geo. H. Currey He Who Moves REAL ESTATE La Grande, Ore.
