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iiD IS WISDOM! Whence then comet h widom? and whore
, is the place of umlerMiindlne? tecm; it Is hid frm the eyes
of ull living. iod understandeth the way thereof and he know
eth the plate thereof. Job 2S:2, 21. 23.
Gang That Held Up and
Burned Train Given
Lethal Punishment
MEXICO CITY. Apr. 26. (API
Federal forces sent In pursuit
of the rebel hand which burned a
train in a holdup last Tuesday,
overtook the rebels at El Guitar
rer valley, in Jalisco on Saturday:
and in a five hour tmttle sixty of,
the band, eicht soldiers and an of
ficer were killed. A war office an
nouncement loduy said the rebels-
were commanded by priests en pa
uml Angulo,
.Generals Garza and Ixequlrre. inj
command of the federal troops,'
Mil id that objects belonging to pas-'
senuers in the Guadalajara train;
were found on the bodies of lhe
rebels. I
At the sumo time the war office
received a report of an unsuccess
ful attempt to attack the Jttarex-
. Mexico City train Sunday morning
near the Salas station. Federal
font's commanded by General
I Arinarlllas put the rebel to rout.
I The Kenenil's report to President
, 'alles said:
I "Four kilometers from Kalas, a
'sane of Catholic extremists at-.
( tacked my train which traveled
'ahead of the Juarez passenger i
train. , - j
The fiirht lasted half an hotirj
and the enemy fled when they
noticed they were attacking a. mill-
tary instead of a passrnrer train. J
They abandoned ten dead and 2
i i 1 1. i . horses nnd ciirried off many
What's happened to that Nevada gold rash? Some tanst! '",:"K " y
must have carried off the mine for a souvenir. I
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Dert At-fsta and Clarence Clunilerlain. pilots who will try fr
the $ J I, unn orteiK prize for flyin arnww the Atl.tiitie are hvI
with Guh-eppl Dellanca center) and the new J -S Wright Whirl
wind plane in which they hope to siwin the oi-ean. The plane wa
to le Kiven a Su-hour flight tryoiit before the tnms-oceanic at
tempt, liellanru is t-hakinR haud.f with Chamberlain.
stop flight aero the Atlantic,
We approve of spring's arrival, however late, and only ; j10ttl6r 01 l06l
lioiw that she doesn't suffer a traffic jam with summer. I
Ti:iJ-S fF ('HASH
WASHINGTON, Apr. 3 (AO
Nottfyine tne war dt partment to
day of the dtath of Commander
Noel !avts and Lieutenant Stan
ton H. Wooster. Major C. J. Hrown
6f the army air corps, who wit
nessed the crash of the airplane
American l-Kion. pave this de
scription of the accident:
" " ' "The American Ifrlon was iak-
SAI.T LAKE CITY, I'tah. Apr. In off for a full load ttst nnd It
2S (AP First Information of the took off on the lonjr runway at
death of her son. Commander Noel Incb-y Field, to th north. They
Davis Notified
At Oakley, Ida.
WHAT WE SPEND FOR AND WHY
' The tax survey of the Oregon Voter as reviewed yesterday;
in the news columns of The Observer deserves the most care
ful attention of the taxpayer. The division of the tax doI-
lar according to purposes and levies, the Comparison With.l'avis. in a crash of his giant air- ran aton? the ground for a Ion?
hiaf V0ur nnrl luitu oon omtntlnc r,A int I : plane at .MesslCk. U.. WaS con
" v ' or 'imX ia -.veyed to his moth
formation is graphically presented in the Voter's survey.' Price, at oakiey.
Ua imnAWunt thintr in iho mo,. nf moi;.,! distance telephone by the Assocl- the jrrouml.
. "7"v" V1 ... uui :HtwJ Vrf, Sfr9m ,.r(re Vrt wlth ,.-,.hov crcslM.d It.irk river lH-yond
opuiiuit is me compnaiion mac snows just wnat agencies are hei' husband j. it
.responsible for our
money is spent for.
: New Orleans received more water
from the Diamond crevji.-e.
' Meanwhile, with urvert wirnkr4.'s
issued on nearly every hand, men
l.i bored Ifi rear hfsher the mala
M iMKtppi Jevees from Vtck-burt
to New Orleans, where the r.i'ln
torrent has been held in check
through continued vigilance. Every
precaution wrts taken against ptw
itle dynamiting of levees and in
New trleans pluns were laid for
the flood crest crisis.
yed to his mother. Mrs. 1-cna It.
rice, at Oakley, Idaho, by long
distance nnd finally Rot into the
air but apiarently, did not rise,
more than about-4wenty fe-t from
FIND REMAINS OF
GO.OOO B. C. LIFI
fConllnued from rase 1)
I 'rice, on
rfwnrwiKitilo frtr nnr tnv lovinu mwl iu wtitif iM.nn,n K nnch "hort distance from Oak-
. .w . VH. n - ,ia jui- "link puiJJWlO tov
the bis ballon hungij- at l-u)frly
Fielu end. apparently fifiirinK that
150 miles northwest of this they would not be. able to clear the
city. trees, madtt a right hand turn to
- Vl' I i t . j. i i i 1 'Asked If she had heard oi an the east. - (
"e nave Constantly emphasized the fact that Our tax accident. Mrs. Price said she had "The turn bclnp nearly com
problem is not primarily a State problem but a local One. We 1,l,rd no,hlnf unJ whrn informed pb-ted the plane sank und crashed
un. -M,it.. : j i. ii . -i . , i , , , that he had been killed In aa ac- into the niarsh on the, north aid
have regularly pointed out that the taxes voted by the legis-j.ient she claimed: .of Back river. The left inR of
lature on whom criticism for tax excess is heaped vear af-i "h- Iny God- No,i 'the piune is rompieieiy destroyed
Ki:i I. - . . Mrs. Price said she had last and the fuselupe was buried In thu
ler year-constitute a very small portion of the whole, that w . i r n hti o a vi.u i, "k to the .pilot-. cxkit." ,
the elimination of al ltax money paid to the state for purely s""'"n- Maw, a your nto io , . . '
1,1 ,,w : . , i , . . iovt'iniM-r. llim wun ahout the
ok.iv; ui.uc nuuiu nui luMiu 111 very material reuci. umi he a
. .Take Union county's tar table:' for etanmle: A tola! rif ""' luk,f -irirw of the air n-
?72,429 is raised for stale pui poses-general expense, hl-'ZU
er education, and soldiers' bonus amounting to 8.33 per cent '" " ho poke very enthusi
ot the tox total. But the ixnus is 1.12 ner cent of the total a"r,",y "f h" run,' m""""1 no"-
tlllod to Wahln. RIVER iFLOQD tl
urn!1 of the air re-
RAGING INTO
NEW
now conducting anthropological re
searches h broad.
IViuikI' F.'mlintr-i
"In the heart of the Sahara def
e.rt." raid Mr. Pound, "we-d Cov
ered stone f t.iiustiies whi.h have
all (he chitrncteristics of tlie iiust
ancient old stone age cultures of
K ii rope.
"In our most recent excavation,
we found quantities of animal re
mains of lone extinct specie-, not
ably a Kiant ox measurins ."i2 inches
between the tips of horns which
lire ah-o oil the way to America to
lH.tdied"w4iJ-the human bones."
The lleioit exjiedition is financed
liirely by Dr. Frank 1. lattn. of
m t'hiiatfo, retired capitalist, philr.n-
DIlXRICT tbropist and vice president of the
Chicago Art museum.
and the bonus was voted by the people, by the taxpayers,
(Continued from Pnjin H
KA til Of fim untli-t nnuuml f, i-Hw.U 4k .-4..4 . - a o .i .l. t t u....
" -v, ,v iw. niuui mic awn- KUvriiiiteiiL " . n.mded ditiut for maro.
can be he'd directly responsible as expended for ceneral state .ti v- &. ji.ers.ins. other ve-wts and plane
punoses is 7.21 per cent. The rest of the taxes in Union! s. -o 1
ltf iJtnfim.'. In the State of Michi
pilt. on the thirty-first day of I le
ft
ccmber. I?;, made tt the Insur
ance 'oiii;niK:4niier if the State
of Oregon, piiruaiit to law:
TAPITAI,
Amotiiff of capital
stock paid up . . KjO.oimi.oo
INt'OMK
Net preniiums received
during the year
Knire reived dur
ing the year
(;.3iH.
county, $797,151, is sient for local purposes schools, coun
ty roads and road Uuuls, enerul county expense, municipal
government. and fire patiol. That amounts to 01.(57 per cent
of the total tax burden. Of this amount spent for local pur
poses, the state levies 6.75, and the county, cities, school dis
tricts levy 81.92 per cent.
ii uuit-i inu iiue iu.v uiiu me nimiev pain io inci
st;ite for state purposes represents a verv small portion of interest, dividends and
'Union county taxes. The state legislature can really be fair-! h7tir-e7d ,,,,r
ly Diamea ior siKMidinir a little over seven cents out of each income from other
Union county tax dollar and the blame for sjxudiitg the
'remaining ninety-three cents must 1c placed closer home
cither tin ourselves for voting certain expenditures at the
)olls, or on the county court, the school Uianis, and the city
and town officials whom we have elected.
That is a consideiation that is worth rcmcmleiing when
we liecomc disgusted with a ttx situation. And we should
aiso rememiM'i mja me pivsent county court memiieis, the I " tr .:".'
Vivscni school iHiaid.niemtMMs, and the present town coun-,',;;;;Xll;;K,;;l,;
ciimen or city commissioner do not deserve the full re-1 v.r ri.2.
sptMisibilily, We should rem.'m!er that others in the samel
offices have preceded them, lhat the structure of gtxnl coun-!
fV IViurii. fif friMlft S(-h(Ml)i of tnuiA iini.U o.wl m.iiiil.i.,) 'i
c-"-" p." n-uillj (till) IIlUIIIV,tNlI j;uv-j
eminent that the stiuctuie of all the things that go to
make a goKl county and rood comnumilics therein has Ikh-iiJ
. bailt up over a lonjr period of year?. We must reim-mlMTi v
lliat the size or our lonu ta. burden today was contributed',
; to by what we and our public officials did ten, fifteen, twenty j v
years agw as well as by w hat w;.s doae last month or last year.'
All of this !. of course, of little value except in the plac- '
tug of tax rcspon.siliility which comes in the last analysis',
very miich on oureelvos as taxpayei-s. If the majority of tax-i
payei-s had not wanted those things V r which we now spend i
5J cents of our tax dollar each year, if we had nut urged
them, argueu loruu-ni, ptf"wr.ed for them, and voted f-.
tliem, it is not ver: likely that we would have got thorn.
iThe trouble is that we Wk upon our schools, our munic-
iiu impiovemcnis, una me rensonnnie peace and happiness ..-.la f i T4.Tr?T.Ti
pi-ovided by good government as very necessay taings and,
all in all, good investments. Knowing we cannot have these
tilings without paying for them, we grumHo a great deal
Total iiicom I sa.ns.3;
iusi:ii:si;m knts
'i low-iwi p.it durfiiL'
th year inrhidini;
a d J ii s t in e n 1
fMM'MHP!! .. 21."
I i'Mleiid4 : f l ioi r:i-
it 1 murk d urine the
Ih'i-iiM-t and
nUi dm tnt th
peI 1 concentrntion renters and.
stiit-ken town with food, clothing.;
medicine' and assurances of ron-
tinned relief. , I
Hefticees from newlv innudatI j
touns and romrminnlie In t '
three mates welltnl the r:tnk f
the homeless which already had
liwn estimated at I r.'t.oao.
In Southeastern Arkansis. near
ly a dozen small uw ns were t
cetvtn backwater from .dd bre:K!
In the Arkansas river, the Jnh ib
itants ehher rlimbin-- t" the !eve"
or removing to nearby towns whl ft
remained drv.
The Southern Mississippi di(
through whit-h the waters from tlio.
Stop" I-iiditiK break in the mui't
.Miisi!silMi b-ve must course b-J-f
fore rejoin im: the piirent .stritn("
'ne-tr Vickstmri; was antIT
j PLANE FLOPS,-
2 NON-STOP
FLYERS DIE
(Continued from Pace 1)
sf'ond l min'dy
New York-I'ari
The firt effort
whop t'aptain Kene
(lane was burnet
n the
lioii-Mnr
.r..post.,
flit: hi.
nded last fal
1'orn lt's ti;in;
at. Iln.;se elt
Kield a iitomcnt after he had t-ik-n
off for. I 'art, causing the deaths
of t'lftirle-s V.. t'lavier. thu mdio
"operator, and Jacob lsLnnoff. Hie
tins hniiic. The fanton Krcn h ace
hlmxlf craped tn.Uiry.
'oinmander I brut :i i nn-
-UHOal and brilliant r:i!ir in the
navy, lb was rai.-s tn ih i!a;n
f I'tah and in his c-.irl' hn.l
I . . i , . . Hays eviiiMicet u pent-ha m tor
lof evaeuatbtn Sis the flood WaO-r, ... - . ,
1 . r .1 1 iMftlncmntio am th navv. hi h the
n In et with the backwater ,f the
result mat iricms iinim-t-u .'ilin to
H g
C Han Scluilt a Mux
Those Smart 3 -Button Suits
are to be found in a number of patterns at La Grande's Lead
. ing Man's Store.
THE type of clothes that you see at the colleges among the better dressed
men. The high three button coat with just the right shaped lapels
and easy fitting, loose trousers. The patterns in rich tans with vaiious
stripes will appeal to the younger men and the (PQfT Clfl
.. i)UJ and tp-J
prico is .
New Golf Knickers
x Cut Full for Comfort
THESE new golf knickei-s in shades of tan, blue and
gray with stripes, checks and woven plaid are sure
to nppeul to the golfer. ,. The comfoi-table fit too will
improve your game. See these knickers and
pattern golf .
hose too
$7.50 10 $10.00
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Shirts that you will
mauLtoMahg on to
YOU'VE probably had shirts that fit so well
and just suited your fancy that you haled
to give them up. - These' new shirts are like that.
The colorful spring patterns with collar attached
and cut full to give comfort yet not "baggy" are
just what
you want
$2,75 to $5.00
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THE NEW FLORSHIEIM CALF OXFORD $11.00
N K; WEST & CO
' THE MAN'S STORE
Joined with the backwater of tin:
YaJtot and piled 'beyond.
, (ihiiiiiI (tf all
eptai)ltures
Total ipendt! nr.-s $
ASSKTS
i of real estate
i x i-t i market al-
.1 J31.V3T."
ihic i.f rtifM-k and
txiiitlH .v lied ( umr-
k-I alti. i 3GT. !'. T
ans it) im.ripn-w
and cll..tfral. etc. ... 7.STS.;
I'ufh lit l.,mks anil tot
htnd s 12.2m;.7
Tie nun m--- In c(-tre of
' ojit-- tili riitti
:nehcpl. 30. itti fc.S( 3:
Ioi! et ami rent due
j itnti a rt11.1i 5,3: 13
i I.anj-es trcoverable .... a..,1fi.et
J New rlii Thn-sK-ncil.
In N"trtbH-n Io'iisl;n:w ni.ill
tributaries of Hie .t isisjptd abb d
Jto the peril from the wintttn l:-l
'river. Towns located in the w
places were pi'epnrina for emei--!'niesr
be hit; ea''tnttel by n lar-e
im 111 1 1 r of ehixens. fS'-tions f th
Suthern lA'iiisiaiia tlt-lta luiiw
enter the naval oc:ob'nv at An
n.....Ii. He H.l and lvn .-rmIu-atetl
with high honors, notwitb
standitm Ins early edih -at tonal
handicaps
Wartime I'liiinl
He served as aob to Admiral
S ms a ud A d in i ra I Si ra uvs ;i ;ul
When the I'tutcd States dcWrri
war on ;rmaiv h1 wen! -ibnol J'j1
chief of staff to Admim! Strauss in
1 -la. .22 -
1 1
il!nm-l
j I.IAI-.II.ITIKS
.llv-.-. l ihu. f..r 1.,-
j HUlKtl.l $
Aimtimt ,,f tm,-iirn"l
I Ktt'lttilllU. t.M ull ..,.1.
just for the sake of proving that we are human beings and' M.niiis ri.k.
iig down in our pockets and pay. j 'i'.,,',""";,""'""
Taxes are to organized society what living expenses aro'Ai ""-r ii-imiiu
to the individual cui7.cn. Not all ot the money we spend! T
for clothes, for food, for pleasure and recreation is well spent, j
))ossibly. After it's gone, we would gladly recall some of it t,
at limes. Dut, in most cases, it justifies our judgment. It'
' . j : . 1 f 1: .t . N''t
proves a goou iiive.-inn--m. uur oii-iiuing ui ui.v iiiniiey
n.mounU to the same thing.
less. Everybody realizes that. The difficulty lies in the fact 1
that when we spend less, whether as an individual or as anj
organized community, we must necessarily reduce the ex-
; 3 Mill, Ml,
ti'l li.il.UIHt-K. -.
t-lu.lp f .ii.Ual
A ,,f l'".;.omi t 7V33f
I'.-'i.VKSS l OUKCfl.N
, Till: Y KA It
hi ,.inhtM,. c
the only way to save is to spend i.- i.hu iun;u:
:.it
.- liwuritMl ilurln
llio ,-itr
-(ll.l Ml..N- XATI.
INS. CD.
K1HK
iiuntr standard of living which we have raised all by ourselves. -"'" .
r ... lou.', .tcielaiv.
April Percolato
SPECIAL
A Remarkable Co-operative Offer
That Will Appeal to everyone Who
Likes "BETTER COFFEE"
By special arranpement "with the Manrin
Bowman Co., makers of hijrh-prade ELEC
TRIC PERCOLATORS, and the distributors rf
"Koval Club" Coffee, we are able to offer this
regular $11.00 Electric Pecolator for
ONLY $7.95
Terms If Desired!
ITk- down, $1.00 per month on your
elecfric senice bill
One Hund -can if Royal Club Coffee Tree
with each Percolator.
Eastern Oregon Light &
Power Company
harue ot mint laying. "
He put diwvn a field f mines be
tween Kfitand-M.ud "jrwiy which
eventually slopped .thev 3ertniin
subitiarlnes front indn? that path
ttt the hlKh seas. Wtltrn the: war
ended he took the inlncstJ -nun in
ami was bbtu n tip In the (irifcess.
.vahe overboard ami nearly bjst
his hfe.
He later mcretl the naval avia
tion hchod ft I'etiKicola and on
hi i-rultiation had s mastered th
te hnlM'te of aerodynamic that he
whs able to write a iinmlier tf
iH-nkx on the subje-t which are
used by navy pilots. I-iter he took
rhart' of the naval . reserve field
"TH Siuaittnm. Majts.. nnd was se
tec ted by the navy department to
take hai'KC of all naval reserve
flylnir.
fhrKlcmfl hy Wife
l-sst March the commander an-nonnt-t
il that he would hop oft
from -MitchtM Field early in June
In. un nil-American plane. eniiUM Js sprcinlly built -plane of the
and rrew. In an attempt to rapture l'alhrtndcr iypt.. developed by the '
the f?5.0n prize offered by Kay-; Kcyst.ine Aiiviatt compnny if
uiond Ortelj;. New York hotel man. ltristnl. Pa., was rimsn-ned ihe
for a non-stop fHyht from New 1 Amcric;in l.. - l.,n i,i v. if. ;
1 'nriiss Vicld earlier this month.
York to Purls.
SWEATERS
For Infants and Children
Pull-over or Coat Styles
50c to $2.98
NORTON'S KIDDY SHOP
Better Merchandise Lower Prices
LA GRANDE
NATIONAL
BANK
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A "New 7:
Telephone
Directory
will be issued sooil
Install a telephone and get
a listing in the directory.
Home Independent Telephone Co.