La Grande evening observer., March 15, 1917, Image 2

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1917.
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T;A' GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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Says Hillman Is a
True Sportsman
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Earns Title by Packiag Hay
Miles of Snow to Baby Elk
George In Some Shot, Too, as Hit)
Letter to a Convalescent Friend in
Hot Lake Sanatorium Indicates
Spirit of the Vast Mountain Snow
Places Permeates letter.
Dress Materials in Keeping
with the New Spring Styles
If you hfy! found a dress or suit pattern you like
in auv of tli Jatest fashion magazines, you will be
sure to fin the exaot materials from which to make
.it up in pur stppk of
laiBoae Dress Fabrics
We have a handsome line of La Porte Wash Goods,
Silks and Wool Dress Goods for your inspection.
Here Are a Few of Our Valves
t WASH GOODS
' l")c to 65c per yard 15!
SILKS
Yard wide Taffeta $1.39 to $2.25
Figured and Plain Pongees 60c to $1.48
Crepe de Chene and Georgette Crepe $1.50 to $2.00
Peau-De-Soie, Peau-Dc-Cygne, Skinners Satin, Mes
salines, Duchess Satin, Poplins and Kayser's Italian
Silk Fabrics $1.39 to $2.75
WOOL DRESS GOODS
Wool Poplin, Serges, Wool Batiste, Broad Cloths,
Gaberdines and Mohair in Invisible Plaids
65c to $2.89
Hill's Department Store
Quality and Service
BEAUTIFUL
SANITARY
DURABLE
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Flat Tone makes the ideal wall finish.
Dries perfectly flat but can be washed with soap
and water when necessary. It comes in all col
ors. Why not use it this time for your Spring
renovating. It is not expensive.
Oxner's Paint Store
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Steel
Direction-Finding Wireless Re
ceiver.
About 500 feet of wire, strung round
a square wooden frame mnde of boards
and 20 switches bv which nor t ions of
the wire can bo "cut in" or "cut out" ics Magazine.
this constitutes the new wireless re
ceiving appartus with -which experi
menters in the electrical department
f Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.,
are said to have boon nble to receive
messages during violent storms, and
determine the direction from which
they come. The wireless waves are
received by the wires just as they are
received by antennae high in the air.
They are then transmitted to tuning
devices and a telephone receiver in the
ur.ual manner. It has been found that
by turning the frnme about until its
axis is in line with the direction of the
ending station, the signals are heard
distinctly. This direction-finding
feature, it is believed, will prove of
great value in many ways. A picture
of this wireless receiving apparatus
appears in the March Popular Mochan-
Humpa At Crossings Regulate
Traffic.
In tho conted of Ixs Angeles street
intersections, nt which traffic officers
are not stationed, hemispherical disks
have been bolted to tho pavemont for
the purpose of regulating vehicular
travel and preventing corner cutting.
A fin is provided by city ordinance
for the motorist who fails to keep to
the right of these "mushrooms" in
piloting his car in the thoroughfares.
From the March Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.
AUSTIN BKOWNELL, Manager
HOUSE WIRINft A BPECIALTT'
Supplies and Heating Dvicei
Phone Main 726
Summer Hotel Building, next to Western Unioa
Hot Lake, March 14. (Special)
Clarence K. Short, who is now con
valescing at tho Hot Iake sanator
ium, has received a very interesting
letter from his friend, George Hill
man, dated at Kamela, March 11, in
which the "good sportsman" qualities
of George are unconsciously shown.
The letter' was accompanied by some
excellent snap shots of the baby elk
in question. Weather conditions
around Kamela arc sure severe and it
must have taken all the energy of an
enthusiastic and hardy sportsman to
travel miles through the deep snow to
pack feed for a starving baby elk.
George's letter says, in part:
"This sure has been a hard and
strenuous winter on us up here. Snow,
snow and then more snow. It is be
tween six and nine feet on the level
here at Kamela. I suppose you have
heard more or less about my captur
ing and feeding an elk this winter,
but the affair turned out sadly after
all my trouble. After caring for it
for nearly a month it sickened and
died. The state game department was
going to let me keep it and I think it
would have become quite tame. The
day 'before it died it came up to me
and put its head over my shoulder and
almost cried out to mo that it was
sick. It was almost human.
"Six weeks ago there was one big
bull elk, two cows and thiR calf passed
through near here on their way from
the Black Mountain country down to
a lower altitude and the yearling got
caught in the wire fencing not far
from where- that big buck deer got
caught last year and which I came
near losing my life over. Well, from
all indications the yearling was fast
in the fence for several days and I
think the. exposure caused it to con
tract pneumonia from which it event
ually died.
"The Elks' lodge at La Grande have
got the hide and are having it mount
ed and placed in the railroad home at
La Grande.
"There is a rancher at Pilot Rock
who caught two young elk but 'I don't
think the state game warden will al
low him to keep them as they were
not in distress when captured.
"Around here there has been some
large animals which used to bother
tho elk most every night and I could
see its tracks each morning. I thought
it was cither a cougar or a largo lynx
but it turned out to be a big wild dog
that got away from a sheepman a
year or so ago. It Was running at
large just like a wild animal.
"It had been imported from Europe
as a wonderful sheep dog and so it
was so I've been told. But it got to
killing and eating tho sheep so the
owner attempted to kill it. I found
Over two 22 calibre bullets in its limbs
when J skinned it.
"The dog left the vicinity and its
owner never saw it again. It began
showing up around here; so, about a
week ago I saw him a distance off in
the deep snow i-.nd I thought sure it
was a timber wolf, it looked exactly
like one. Then I didn't see it again
until last Friday just before daybreak
and I got my old 30-30 to work. The
first time I shot, it was walking, and
I cut a little hair from its back, (I
was shooting from the cab of tho en
gine), then it took up a wood road and
when about 150 yards away I fired
again and hit it just on top of the
nose. The third shot, at about 250
yards, I plugged it through the head.
The last two shots I had to shoot left
handed from tho position I held in the
cab. There were some boys watching
me and they marvelled at the good
shooting of tho last two shots. I
didn't tell them it was quite an ac
cident for that is what it was. Any
how I got my dog.
"It was a half bred Russian wolf
hound and half Russian sheep dog and
its hide is sutc a fine one to work in
to a rug. So that's all there is to the j
talk of timber wolves being around I
Kamela.
"I've got about a dozen traps set i
out but all I've caught up to now are
magpies, rabbits and occasionally a
dog. There are quite a lot of cats
and lynx around here, too and I'm in
hopes of getting one before they shed
their fur. We are protecting and
feeding a bunch of about 50 deer and
three elk down near Duncan, We see
them nearly every day.
"A man, not a sportsman, shot a
doe about a week ago and whon he
found it was about to give birth to
two young ones he let it lay there.
The game department got him and
fined him ?75. If I had had the job
of handing justice out to him he
would have had a fine of $500 and six
months besides.
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PHONE MAIN 70
408 North Fir St.
FARMERS PHONE B. 192
Cross The Track
Test Cars Make
4,688,412 Miles
During Year 1916
GOODRICH TIRE TESTERS MUST
AVERAGE 300 MILES PER
DAY.
HALSEY COLLECTION
TO BE AUCTIONED
During 1910 our fleet of tiro test
ing cars traveled 4,088,413 miies.
which is equivalent to 630 trips from
New York to San Francisco and return
and they used upwaids of 390,000 gal
lons of gasoline," said Dr. W. C. Greer,
Chief of the Development Department
of the B. F. Goodrich ComDanv as he
"I think I have located several pe-1 was leaving for Washington recently
culiar marks of some of the buck deer
and next fall you and I, Clarence, will
go out and get a couple, what say
you?
"The snow up here is the worst
known for years. A says she
wouldn't mind staying up here so
much if she could only look out of
the windows, for the snow is away j
up so tnat an you can see is tne sKy
when looking through the windows of
our house. I've quit shoveling snow
as there fs no place to throw it so
we just slide down the snow bank
through the front door into the house.
Our 'Ihossonpheffer" feed and ball
was a grand success and the cock
fight was, !!" But here the story was
cut short.
However, George is a real sports
man. Some of the snap shots show
him on snow shoes with a knapsack
and gunny sack filled with hay which
he packed for miles into the mountain
forests to succor the starving baby
elk. Would there were more sports
men of George's calibre.
This statement was given out as six
of the test cars left for the South
where they will avoid the snow cover
ed roads of Ohio for the next several
New York, March 14. (United
Press) Fifty thousand dollars worth
of Old Masters from the collection
of Frederick B. Halsey will be auc
tioned off at Ihe Anderson Art Gal
leries here beginning today.
This is the seventh section of the
Hulsey collection to be sold and will
bring the total sales from the collec
tion up to nearly $400,000, or more
than $100,000 greater than any simi
lar sale on record. Other sales from'
the collection later probably will bring
the total close to a million dollars.
Among the most interesting of the'
Old Masters on sale today are "Christ
Healing The Sick" and "Christ Before
Pilate" by Rembrandt. "Catherine of
Pi'aganza," "Henrietta Maria" and
"Oliver Cromwell" by William Fair--thone,
one of the most celebrated of'
the seventeenth century portrait en
gravers, all exceedingly rare speci-
months in making their strenuous , mens are ln waay s selection.
tests of the Goodrich products. The '
cars with a crew of 37 men, 11 ex-' Afters a season's digging in the Red
quired 300 miles every 24 hours in Deer River canyon of Alberia, eight
northern Ohio and since this mileage perfect skeletons of extinct carnivor-
ARC A DE I,
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Stirring Tale of Pirate Days.
The pirates swarmed over the rail
as the terrified passengers huddled in
a group. Tho eye of tho chieftain
fell upon a beautiful girl in the crowd
and he roared for his men to sieze her
and hustle her over the rail into his
gift-
She s mine, he snarled, as he
caught a member of the crew casting
an envious glance at tho frightened
girl, whose proud spirit mastered her
terror of tho villainous lot about her.
When the pirntes had attacked the
ship only one among all the men on
board had dared to fight to save the
girl and he was John Barton, a soldier
of fortune whom sho had met by
chance back in tho sunny Spain which
tractions that usually come to a city
tho size of La Grande.
I Len Lenone is a good cyclist acro
bat and a wheel, or wheels, act just as
he wishes them. But Lenone doesn't
get away with comedy. His funny
stuff is horseplay.
Edwards and McKenna sang popu
lar and classical songs. The tenor
voice was good but the mezzo was
decidedly tired or something.
"Snowfiakes" was a sweet dancing
interpretation of the winte r snow
full. The lighting was good; the
dancer was artistic. The writer thinks
that several members of the company
lean toward chorus girl dancing for
the bald-headed row but the slender
solo dancer as she appeared last night
has real art.
A remembrance of Pavlowa last
winter in a snow solo dance came to
the writer as he saw this girl dance.
Good music is a feature of the Ar
cade not to be lightly dismissed
though the fact that the splendid five
sho had left behind. This man was
hurled overboard by tho pirates and orchestra is there evorv niirht
thought to be dead. But he turned up ! tends to make one fortret. "The mi.
Liter in a most unexpected way and ; sic ts great" I have heard said a doz
saved this beautiful girl from the mis-! , times in the past few days. The
erable crew that had placed her on 1 personnel of the orchestra is: C. H.
sale as a slave, n revenge for tho Stevens, pjnno; Andrew Loney, cor
killing of thoir chief. net. Alvin Snann. clarinet: Dick Lind-
The girl was Pauline Frederick and violin: Gordon Henderson, drums.
MC pARTHT
ADEV1GARS
Imperial 15c 2 for 25c
Imperial Guj House 10c
Imperial Smoker . . 5c
w. d. McCarthy
Cfficeand Factory 106 Depot St. I vh BWf .
the ono man who camo to her rescue
was Thomas Meighan, for it all hap
pened in "The Slave Market," the
Famous Players production which is
tho Paramount attraction at tho Ar-
cado Friday and Saturdny. The story
is by Frederick Arnold Kummer and
the photoplay was directed by Hugh
Ford. In the cast ore such screen
celebrities as Wellington Playter, Al
bert Hart and Ruby Hoffman.
is considered imperative by the Op
erating Committee, it was decided to
transfer the work to a field where it
can be carried on without interi uption.
At Chattanooga the present fleet
will be increase 1 by five new cars and
at Atlanta three more will be added,
bringing the entire number up to 14
cars with a crew of 27 me.i, all ex
pert drivers who enjoy a record for
1916 that was free from accidents.
"When I began driving one of these
test cars," said or.e of the drivers, "I
thought it was all fun, but I soon had
this taken out of me for I have to
make 150 miles during the day and
then turn my car over to :i night driv
er who also has to make 150 mile3. We
keep a complete record of every tire
and the tires as well as the cars are
inspected y the factory experts every
morning before we start out. It is I
pleasant enough to be a tourist, but to j
be turned loose on the road with a car j
and nothing to do but wear out tires
is a pleasure that soon develops into '
: serious business."
"The Goodrich Company insists that ;
the test car drivers not only observe j
ous and herbivorous animals have
been found. It has hiterto been al
most impossible to obtain more than
parts of the skeleton of any species.
Complaints, affidavits and legal!
blanks of every description for sal at
The Observer, 1710 Sixth street.
SHERRY'S SATURDAY
the lnws of the communities through
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exercise every precaution that tends
to promote the 'Safety First' idea.
BUTTER LABELS For sale at Th
Observer office.
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WANTED
To buy ten million feet of lumber, or will furnish
cash to operate your mill and market the prod
uct. Phone Main 711.
W. R. KIVETTE
Hippodrome Acts
Are Quite Pleasing
Secotd Wfok'i Acts Are Far Above
Usual Run f Vaudeville la a City
Thia Sire.
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Probably the w .t trial of any
thing new is the fKvond. The appeal
of tho novel then has worn away and
the reaction, the other wny, has set
In. It is easier then to criticism de
structively. Though in my opinion the Hippo
drome acta at th Arcade last nicrh
were not as good u Inst week's sti
th7 are far above the class of at-1
ton's Booth at Auto Show,
Saturday and Saturday Even-
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