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JULY X. ItHH KKIUAY ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ : ♦ ♦ : : ♦ The Sheen of Pearl r< fleeted trout perfect teeth can easily be destroyed by improp er dentifrices. There are many preparations that will whiten teeth, but tew that preserve the enamel while they whiten. Dentifoam saves teeth while it beautifies them. It arrests decay, hardens the gums, removes discolora tions. sweetens the breath— and stops there. Price 25 cents. F. W. SCHMIDT ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦♦ ♦♦ :♦ 1 M : : ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ UHlABLf I R DRUGGIST. Postotfiee Block. Phone Main Ul. ’ * { ♦ NEWS OF MILTON H. N. WALLER WILL RETURN TO KANSAS Will Summer in Goldendale—Return ed From the Sound—Visitor From Albany. Oregon—Will Spend Her Vacation in Spokane—Mrs. N. A. Davis Entertained—Visit From Grand Chief of Rathbones—Gone East on a Tour. Milton. June 3*i.—The Misses Julia and Nettie Blackbum of Walla Walla, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs F B Pennoe’ left Monday for Gold endale. Wash., where they will spend the summer with a sister. Miss Lx ua Coe returned Tuesday from a 10 days' visit at Seattle aud other cities on the sound. H N. Waller, who fur the past year has been employed in the Miltoil bauk has resigned his position and will leave Saturuay tor his home in Nor ton. Kt ns-^s Mrs. C. M Monteith arrived Tues day from Albany. Ore., on a visit to her son, Thomas Monteith. Mrs Leonard Will of Spokane, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. J. H Wilson, left today for home. Miss Margaret Winuiford, one of the teachers in Columbia college, has gone to Spokane to spend her vaca tion with friends and relatives. Mhs. N. A. Davis entertained the young people of the Christian church Sunday school at her home on Mill street Tuesday afternoon. Ice cream and cake were served. Mrs. V. H. Chastain, grand chief of the Rathbone Sisters of Oregon, paid an official visit to the Athena lodge last Monday night. Otis Ingle will leave Saturday night for a visit in the East He will attend the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Thomas Taylor will leave to night for Portland. Mrs. M. M. Dittebrandt and daugh ter. Miss Hazel, returned yesterday from a two weeks' visit with relatives at Nez Perce. Idaho. Yesterday several farmers in the Hudson Bay country began harvest ing. Grain in that section of the coun try ripens more rapidly than it does near the foothills. Next week a num ber will start up their machines for the season, and all the farmers expect a good yield of grain. Yesterday afternoon at Walla Wal la. Mr Robert F Vancil and Miss Re na Troyer were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. Rev. G. H. Gibbs performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs Vancil will reside in Freewater where the groom has charge of the North Milton lumber yard. NEWS OF ATHENA. Visitor From Salem—Miss Nettie Can non Files on Government Land— Death of a Pioneer, Aged 77—Pro gram for Hard Times Social at Christian Church—Good Horse Bad ly Hurt on a Snag—Heavy Frost in the Mountains. Athena, June 29.—Mrs. Hales of Sa lem. is in the city looking after busi ness concerning the sale of her prop erty here, and visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beck are visiting here. They will soon leave for their Franklin county homestead. Miss Maud Gholson has returned home after an extended visit with friends at Walla Walla. Mrs. Mark Johns, accompanied by her son, Melvin, left yesterday for Walia Walla, where they will attend the wedding of her cousin. Miss Eva Switzler. Mrs. DePeatt is enjoying a visit from her brother, Mr. Booth of Port land. Born to Mr. aud Mrs. George Thompson June 24, a bouncing baby girl. Miss Elsie Rosenzweig and Miss Nettie Cannon and George Rosen zweig returned Monday from Franklin county. Miss Cannon filed on a home stead while she was there. A good horse belonging to B. F Ogle ran into a snag in the pasture, and was badly gashed. The wound is eight inches long and is in the breast and under the right foreleg. It Is quite likely to prove fatal. Miss Bowles of Walla Walla, is vis iting her sister, Mrs. Fay LeGrow, this week. Al Booher, from the mountains, re- ports a heavy frost destroyed his strawberries and garden last Thurs- dt<y. Inflicting a heavy loss upon him Uncle" Alfred Watts passed away after a long illness at his home in Weston Mr. Watts was prepared for death, being a good and religious man He Mr. Watts was 77 years old came to this county in 1X69. from Wil latnette valley. Besides many friends he leaves also many relatives to mourn his demise. The program for the hard times so ial at the Christian church next Fi i day is as follows: Song By the Hard Time choir. Vocal duet Ju»1 and Will Scott. Recitation Mrs Archie McIntyre Instrumental solo—Miss Maud Ghol son. Recitation—Cora Davison Song Hard Time choir. Vocal—Mrs. Anna Foss Recitation -Gladys Bush. Vocal duet Nellie Foss and Oro Rhodes. Song Hard Time choir Violin—Albert Bales Recitation Zelma DePeatt. Instrumental solo—Ava Reeder and I.ucv Jenkins Song- Hard Time choir BREVITIES. Charles McBee, of Echo, is in town >n business. W H. Switzler, of Vmatilla. is in •he city today. 11. H. Curtis, of Athena, is a busi- •less visitor today. Frank I-Oekwood, of Helix, is in own on business. Eric Johnson, of Varsyde, is a bus iness visitor today. Theodore Lord, a Vansvcle farmer, is a Pendleton visitor. E L. Smith returned today from a business trip to Helix. Dr. J. Griswold, of Helix, is in town in professional business today. Mr and Mrs. G. W Davidson, ro mnear Vansvcle. are s|>ending the lav in town. Chris Htanull left last night for Portland. Seattle and Tacoma, on a wo weeks' business visit. Professor J. E. Cherry, of Adams, was in the city last night, returning tome on the morning train. Mrs. S. A Lowell returned to Pen lieton yesterday from a two weeks' sojourn in the Oregon metropolis. Mrs. Clarence Penland is at Mea ham visiting her parents. Mr. and ■Irs. J. S. Matthews, for a short time C. H. Byrondahl. of Huston. Minn ind William Burke, of Rustord. Minn tre in the city with the intention of locating Rev. J H Leppert. pastor of the Congregational church at Huntington. was in town this morning en route to Portland. W P York, of Kilbride, left for iis home today after disposing of 15 icavy horses which he brought here or sale. Thursday F. H Richmond, the prominent .armer of the Helix district, is a guest of Hotel Bickers today, while in the city on business. Mrs E F Beitel of Pilot Rock, has just returned from a visit to ber son- m-law. N H Cottrell and family, at Enterprise. Wallowa county A. Zeuske, now a resident of Pen- Beton, returned from his ranch near Helix today. He reports crop condi- ions excellent near his farm. W. M. Ladd, of the banking firm of Ladd A Tilton, of Portland, was in the city this morning, returning to Portland on the 9 o'clock train. Mr. and Mrs. A B Montgomery and Miss Curtis, a sister of Mrs. Mont gomery. all of Helix, have gone to Lehman Springs for a brief outing. E. Ray Jones, formerly proprietor of the Modern School of Commerce, in this city, has taken a position as stenographer and typewriter in the :ounty clerk's office of Union county. Thomas Gorman, a pioneer sheep- shearer of Umatilla county, now a successful miner and prospector of Baker City, passed through this morning en route to Stockton. Cal., an a mining dea'. Rev. W. H. Bivakney, principal of Pendleton Academy, expect* to leave for Pittsburg, Pa. in a few days to visit his father, who is ill at the old home near that city. It is likely that Mrs. Bleakney will accompany him. W. S. Bowman returned last night • rom Lehman Springs, where he went to install his people for the summer The party consists of Mrs. Henry Car roll, Mrs. W. S. Bowman and Miss Winnie Rude. They will live in the Furnish house and spend the summer there. i — REGULAR SUMMER VACA TION NOW BEGINS Carding Room Closes Tomorrow Night —Weavers Will Finish Their Work in a Few Days and the Finishers Will Complete the Clean up Soon— Past Year's Business Has Been Good—Employe-. Will Take Vaca tions Until September 1. After one of the most prosperous years iu the history of the institution. I he Pendleton Woolen Mills close down for the annual vacation and sea son of repair and rejuvenation, in a few days. Tomorrow night the card room, etn ploying six men, will close until Hep- temjier 1. As soon as the present uia terial now carded is woven, the weav ing room, employing 20 people, will • lose for the1 same period, and as soon | as the finishers complete the woven product on hand, that department will dose and until September 1 the ma chiuery will rest and the employes will take their regular summer vaca tion. Manager Ferguson is highly pleas • d with this season's run Business has been tx-tter every month ol 19o4. than it was in 1903. and the wide spread popularity of the Pendleton Woolen Mills product Is growing In scope and yielding better returns con stantly. This shut down is a regular thing with the Pendleton Woolen Mills, as the employes need a vacation and It causes untold vexation for the force to be broken up. in taking their vaca tions a few at a time, so the policy has been to shut down on July 1 each year aud give the force a vacation and in the meantime overhaul the machinery anti put the mills in flrst- dass shape for the next years run On September 1 the mills will re sume with a full force, in prime con dition to break all records in the fol lowing 12 months. - Kerr-Gifford Company to Build. By the change in the proprietorship of the Athena mill, the Kerr-Gifford Co., dealers in grain, are temporarily without warehouse facilities, but the ■ompany will not remain in this state long. A site for a new warehouse has oeen selected on the Gillis spur by the company and workmen will rush the building through to comple tion in time to take care of this sea son's crop. Mr. Frank Rogers, the efficient manager, who bad charge of the company's business in this city tast year has been retained and he will continue in the employ of the company. Mr. Rogers was offered the deputyship in the county clerk's office, and in fact was counted on as the man for the place. Since he will not serve, another deputy will be named by the newly elected county clerk.—Athena Press. Haying Begin* in Crook. Ranchers in the northern part of the county ip the vicinity of .Hay creek last week began to harvesi their hay and by this time next week every hay field will be ready for the mowers. From present indications the crop this year promises to be a heavy one- although there is talk amoug the producers of asking 310 per Ion for the yield.— Crook County Journal. Red Chaff Yields Well. Clay Branstetter is now at work cutting his 460 acres of wheat up Stage Gulch. He was in town last Monday and brought to the News of fice a sample of red chaff wheat which he thinks will harvest over 25 bushels per acre. The heads have filled nicely and the grains are plump. — Echo NewB. F. M. Parker, who was in the city Saturday from his Islington ranch, says he has 700 acres of wheat that will average 25 bushels per acre, says the Heppner Times. All grain in his section is good, he says, even spring wheat is looking fine and will make a good crop. He has been engaged cut ting 200 acres of barley the past week. Sunday School Picnic. The Sunday school* of the Eighth District ot Umatilla county will hold a convention at Freewater, July 14. There will be a basket dinner in the park.—Freewater Times. Mrs. Edith Grumig, wife of a Ger man farmer living near Colfax, fell in her kitchen on Thursday, striking her head on the cook stove, causing concussion of the brain from which she died, giving premature birth to twin boys, both dead, a few moments before ber death. ALL VERY FINE GRASS AND FULL FED BEEVES Umatilla County is Sending Out Many High-Grade Animals to the Sound Market, and More Are in Sight for the Same Destination in Short Time. —Andrews Herd Sold. Five hundred and fifty bead of cat Ik- have* been shipped out of the city ai the last few day» by L Stubble •eld. a representative of th«- Carstens Packing Co. of Seattle. The ship ments included 250 bead of grass beef from Camas Prairie; the remainder were fed cattle. Stubblefield -ays he never saw finer animals tn his life 1 bought the famous Amirews Winch of c attie at Echo, aid to be the finest beef in ihe country.” said Stubblefield. There were 75 h«-ad ia this bum b The last shipment was made Wednesday. I have several deals on hand now aud shall remain in town a few days longer. Then I am going south into the John Day- Canyon City and Izee country " Stubblefield has been in the employ of th«- Carstens about six years He makes an annual trip into Eastern Oregon and has a crack local repu tat Ion for his ability as a cattle buyer RESULT HEAVY FROSTS IN GRAND RONDE VALLEY. Many Crop* of Winter Wheat Will Be Cut for Hay Only—Pierce Brothers Lose ThreeFcurth* of Their Win ter Wheat Crop a* Grain—Other* Not So Fortunate. State Senator Walter M Pierce re turned this morning from bis Grand Ronde valley farm, near I al Grande, and reports very heavy damages from irost in that valley. The winter wheat is damaged more extensively than any other grain «nd many crops will be cut for hay. Out of 400 acres of winter wheat. Pierce Brothers, of which W M is the sen lor partner, will cut 300 acres for hay Having a large number of cattle to feed, they will not be very heavy •users from the frost after all, as they • an use the wheat hay for home feed ing and ship their timothy and red top to market and realise almost as much from this as from the wheat crop. But others are not so fortunately situated. Many entire crops are ruin ed and will make very poor hay Hose Team Will Go to Walla Walla With Intention of Winning. I.' hard and conscientious work can t< inpllsh anything iu a limited in.«- . the hose roam which will repre- »cut Peudleton in the lace at Walla Walla on the Fourth, should carry off ■ he laurels The local boys were on .'ourt street practicing at 5 o'clock this morning Th«- practicing t«-am mail«- considerable noise, and the only lilng that caus«-d sleepy people In he vicinity from filing a protest was t knowledge that the work was in- ended for the glory of Pendleton. Manager Nolf says the team ex- •eels to make the hub and bub run n 26 seconds. The total rlstance to >e covered by the competing hose earns is 200 yards. It is probable hat several members of the local earn will take part In the Individual race* and sprints at Walla Walla ;o«>d first purse* having been hung ip for the contestants. Th«- team will go to Walla Walla • ■morrow morning, and will do con- •Iderable practice work there before •ntering the competition. IN CIRCUIT COURT. One Sentence a nJ Several Criminal Case* Postponed. Five ix-rsuns charged with .>ff»n*«** «gainst the law were before Circuit fudge Ellis this moruing William Hope pleaded guilty to ample larceny and was sentenced tu «erve 3u days iu the county fail. He stole a numtx-r ot shirts from the «lore of Hull a an a Bond stout two seeks ago Warren Stevens was arraigned on he charge of stealing several bead A horses from C It Barber, a farmer cm at«-d northwest of this city. H< tti given until next week to plead Bill 1-a Roque, an Indian, was ar signed on the c harge ot stealing two ajtues trotn Little Salmon, another .ndian, at Umatilla He will enter his -h-a next week. WlHIani Duffy and G C. White, ■oys stout IS years of age. appeared n court on the charge of stealing two •’•■ers from Sol la-hmery on the res •rcation. They also will be required u plead next week. WILL OF A L- WATTS. Mir«. Watts Retain* the Property m Full During Life. Rece.pt* for Past Quarter Are Over Thirteen Hundred Dollars More Than the Disbursements—Total Sale of Stamps Nearly Three Thousand Income—Outgo for Salaries Largest Item of Expense. The Peoples Warehouse Tin- Pendleton |M«*tuffii<- report for the quarter ending Juue 20, which has l»e«‘n lu preparation for s«-veral days, »as Completed this morning by Assist ant Puatmaster Charles U French, AND GET A SUIT THAT'S COMFORTABLE THAT LOOKS WELL, THAT and forwarded to the auditor of ths FITS WELL; THAT HAS A WRECKING PRICE ON IT. d«-|>artmenl at Washington. D. C. Ths LEST YOU FORGET, WE LL AGAIN INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE tola! receipt* for th«- quarter w«-re 33,- AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED H AM ILTON CARH ARTT WORKING 255.»7, and the total dl»bur»emeuta 31.424 <■!, leaving a balam-e of 31.331.- CLOTHES AND OVERALLS. »6 due th«- department. This amount ha» been forwarded to the branch de partment at San Francisco, lu w».- de- posiittd in the United States sub treat* ury. Three Increase* In salary at the lo cal po* offi<-e went into «-ff«-c-t jmatsr- lay A»»istant Poxtmaster French ■as l>een receiving 31 loo a year lie- Cinnlng ye*t«-rday h«- will hereafter I : •!. ■ l.a-.- i.r ||MB a y«-ar Th«- salaries of Miss Winnie PrivetL I.- general d«-lhery < lerk aud E G Kstabrook. the mailing clerk, bars Where It Pays To Trade • • n in- rea«u-<l from 8’ " to (600 per annum The quarterly report maili-d the ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦»♦♦♦»♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦O»»990»0e»0»»99000009099999999999999999! ¡ auditor of the departm«-nt at Wash- -ngton D <", »bow» the following items: ; ••••♦♦»♦•♦••••»»♦♦09990999090099000999998998999B999» The Peoples Warehouse Receipt*. Total »ale of n'atups 82 473 21 Newspaper postage at pound rate -... Box renta .................................... 324 *5 Total Hidaway Springs. HARVESTERS’ HEADQUARTERS 33.255 I Disbursement* Salary ot postmaster .. Salaries of assistant and < ierka Rent, janitor's wages aud in- < ideatala Frw- delivery •er* Ice S|»-cial delivery service toOOO »25 00 »7 74 277 75 1352 Total ............................... 31 »24 ol Balance due departm«-ut 81431 M For the «omrspond.ng quarter last y «-ar the recelpta were 33 45» 67 and th«- dlsburw-ments 31.»3» 64. leaving a balan««- sent the department of 31 521.03- Thia year the expense* have been much larger than for the cor- rocpoaciug quarter last year OUR RESPECT. STOCK Quality, not Quantity. TO WATCH BUYERS We have the beat assortment of watches in this section of We sell reliable the state watches from 82 00 up. We sell N 23. 24 jew eled watches in the different grade* In nickel, sterling silver, gold filled and 14 k solid gold esses. FORKS, CAP SCREWS. HOEDOWNS. SET SCREWS. RAKES, SMITHING COAL, SCYTHES. BAR. BAND AND SHEET IRON SNATHS, BABBIT, WATER BAGS. ROPE. WATER KEGS. WHIPS. CURRY COMBS. OIL CUPS, BRUSHES. VALVES, MACHINE OILS. PIPE, AXLE GREASE C0MP0UN0. STOVES, LACE LEATHER, RANGES, GRANITE AND TINWARE. ETC. 'PHONE MAIN 211. OR CALL ON W. J. CLARKE & CO. i i 211 COURT STREET ♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦»♦»•999999999999999999999O99999999999999 Sudden Summer Sickness WE EXPECT YOUR TRADE The Progressiv« Jeweler. ♦ « « At thia season U ere is al- * «ays the danger of sudden at * tacks from stomach and bowel troubles It I* best to be pre pared to prevent seriou* re * « «ults by having i always al nand a bo-tie ot our * B«eeause our price* are cut just as low as it Is possible and do business. You get the benefit of conservative buying atd our small margin of profit. We have spe> ial sale* every day. Our goods are marked In plain figures and will compare with any bouse of our kind Cone in. Let u* convince you. Blockberry Balsam Workingmen’s Clothing Co The New Store. Corner Mam and Webb Sts. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••e We guarantee all watches, and if they prove faulty from workmanship, we will fully re turn your money. HUNZIKER ♦ OF SUPPLIES FOR THIS HARVEST SEASON IS NOW COMPLETE IN EVERY Al) the mercantile agende* are agreed that "the South" Is the bright- 999999999999999999999999 «-st section of the entire country in every businesa sense at the [«resent time. •»99999»»99»»9»99999999999 i > ♦ IF IN NEED OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, VIZ.: Finlander Killed at Unity. ♦ ♦ « ♦ ♦ ♦ J , ♦ ♦ « There 1* nothing like baring a good r ,iedy when It Is need ed For the quick relief and cure of colic, cramps, cholera morbes dysentery and ordinary diarrhoea, it is pleasant and may be trken by young or old Your ioney back if it fall* to cive satisfaction. : Tallman (Sb Co. PLUMBING ♦ LEAMNC DRUGCISTS * * * * * * * i ♦ ♦ 4 726 Main Street. »e»9999999999999999999999e and SEWER WORK REAL ESTATE I HAVE A FULL LINE OF PLUMBING GOODS ANO FIRST CLASS WORKMEN; ALSO MAKE SEWER TIMATE9 FURNISHED ON ALL WORK. CONNECTIONS. ES WORK GUARANTEED T. C. TAYLOR of Umatilla County, Has a Thrilling Experience at IF YOU WANT TO; IF NOT COME TO Dollar* and the Heaviest Source of According to the terms of the sill •t A L Watts, who dl«-d June 27 at ais Weston borne, all his property goes to his widow during ber life ci ■ept bequests of 310 each to his chi)- drew. Mary C. Derrick. Josephine ¡rant, Elizabeth Perkin» •nd Bessie »1 Watts At b«-r d«-ath th«- property la to be divided equally among the Mounts.ns m Their Glory. hildrou Th«- value of the eiita.e I* H«-t.ry ljgzlnka. who baa in the «aid to b- ab««ut SJciOV M I. Watt* is named as executor without bonds, ■4y tor se««-ral «lay» having come .n «bile the apprals«-rs appointed by the from t'amas prairie with a drove of ro-siator ar«- Will McBride. B I» Jar- entile, says the B ue mountains Ln that district are now tn their glory, m««n an-1 O G. Chamberlain a.I the streams being full to overtkiw- mg. the gras» and foliage lu the full SHIPPING GRASS BEEF «way and the nights cool aud refresh He says that the huckleberry Seven Hundred Ammala to the Seat ing crop near his ranch in the Cama* tle Market. prairie country will be abundant, un Wi bin a few days Jim Umergan. leas something happens u> Injure It representing the Frye Bruhn Campa later. ay. of Seattle, will ship 7uu head ot traw ted beef from the country near Saving*' Bank Report, Pom«-roy and Endicott. He passed The •«-ml annual report of the Pen hrough Pendleton to that district this dleton Saving* Bank, mad« at the morning. ”1 expect to get all the cattle ship close of business June 30. as publish ped out of there by July 6 or 7," said ed today, show* a prosperous and sat Mr I.omrgan ' All the cattle there isfactory business for the put six ar« in tine condition now. in about months. The loans and discounts in ■ amount to 2822JNQ, the de 10 days 1 shall return to Prndletun ami will make a number of shipment« posits 3443.000. and the total amount •f busioeu handled amounts to He from here at that time." 077.142. a handsome increase over th« came j>erlod lut year A Flniander named Sam Hoagland, fell under the wheel* of a moving freight train on the O RAN near Unity, in Baker county, Friday morn- mg. and was mangled so he died 40 minute* after the accident. He at tempted to climb under a car to get <>n the rods, while the train wu mov ing slowly around McKeever’* curve, one mile west of Unity, when he lost bi* footing and wu run over, both legs being severed above the knee*, his breast crushed and otherwise in jured. Brakeman William Wade saw the accident and Immediately stop ped the train. The corpse was put In the caboose and brought to Baker City, where an inquest wu held and the train crew exonerated from all I,lame Brakeman Wade wu in the city today bound east on No. 24. and NEW SCHOOL HOUSES. says that the report wired to the Port Oistrict No. 83 Will Add a Room to land paper* that the man was kicked off the train was absolutely false the Old Budding. The fireman saw the man attempt to Schoo] District No. S3, in the Hud get on the train and gave the first son Bay country, near Freewater, has alarm that be had fallen under. been bonded to build an addition ot one room to the school house there at Declines to Serve. a cost of approximately 31600. The Frank Rogers has found that on ac bonds have not yet been sold. There count of business reasons he will be are 141 pupils In the district. In the unable to a< t as deputy under Coun past only two rooms have been oc ly Clerk Haling His d«-clination was cupied. Kyle McDonald is principal handed in yesterday. Mr. Haling ex of the school, and is assisted in teach pects to select a new deputy some ing by Mrs McDonald. time today. B. B. Hall, the present Prof. Nowlin, the county school deputy, will retain bis position for a superintendent, has been notified month, until Mr. Haling becomes fa that the new four-room school house miliar with the duties of the position, in the Echo district has just been Mr. Rogers will remain with the completed. Three rooms will be oc Kerr-Gifford Company at Athena. cupied by the pupils next year, two having sufficed for their needs in the Filing Their Bonds. past. The building has been made William Fktlaom. the newly charted large enough to meet the increase In population of the district for some recorder of conveyances. Is the first time to come. The teacher tor the offP iai to file his bond tor the ensuing next term will be Ix-wis Keeler; the t« rm of office. It I* in the amount of former teacher. Miss Francellan Dun 83*100. th« American Hurety Company can, is now employed in the local of New York going on the bond, t'erlific airs of election and oaths of schools. office were filed today by John W Kimbrell, who succeeds himself as ROPED AN ELK. county surveyor, and B. F. Dennis. elected to serve as justice ••Billy” Colb, Well Known Vacquero peace. Tiring of the prosaic work of lasso ing cattle and bronchos, "Billy'’ Colb, the well known vacquero of this city, has gone In search of more exciting game, and on Thursday roped and led into Hidaway Springs a yearling bull elk. The elk was caught on the moun tains a few miles from the springs, and despite the bucking and plunging, al the end of a well seasoned lariat, ''Billy” coolly led the game into the camp, to the consternation of several dozen women who were enjoying the quietude of the mountain resort that evening. By a chance "Billy" came upon the elk gra/.inr on lu mountain side and being mounted on bis best horse, made a dash at the anlina), coming within ^bout 40 feet. The elk darted and dodged but the trained horse fol lowed Mtn, and before he could reach a dump of timber, the well aimed lariat had encircled his arching neck and there was a sudden tightening of the rope, a sudden summersault, accompanied by some high kicking Go Buckle on Your Uniform the local salary LIST. FAITHFUL PRACTICING. Morrow County Crop* Good. If you want to buy wheat land, a stock ranch, town property, vacant lots or anything In the real estate line, just drop in and see us. E. T. WADE & SON. Office in E O. Building, Pendleton, Or. ’Phone Black 1111. WOOLEN NULLS TO SHUT DOWN ami wild plunging. Ix-llowlug and | snorting, all of which was enjoyed hugely by the vacquero. Finally with his tongue hanging out In exhaustion, his leg* wabbling weakly under him, aud hl* red bulg ing eye* riveted upon the horseman, th«- conquerod bull trotted quietly In to camp, where William Sixitt. propri etor of Hidaway Springe, paid Colb 3-'> for him for the beginning of a three INCREA&ES in zoological garden. 32,250 will buy one of the most con venient »room bouse* in the city. Sewer, bath, etc.; good cellar and barn. 3 lots, corner; a bargain. $4.000—Elegant new »-room house. Just completed; sewer, bath, toilet; 2 lot*; eutern exposure; corner. 32.500— Nice residence eastern exposure. “THE HARDWARE MAN." and C lota; Tumor Taken Away. Mrs. Charle» Cunningham, wife of the well known sheepman, was ojier- ated on for a tumor this morning at the hospital. The operation was per- formed by Dr. Cole, of this city, Dr. Botkin, of Athena The patient has rested easily since she underwent the ordeal, ami it is believed the opera ■NOW SUMMER BLINKS ON tion will prove successful. FLOWERY Wheat in Fine Shape. Lars Hansen, an old-time resident of this county and for the last 16 y«-ars a resident of the Cold Springs country, is spending the day in town, He rtqiorts wheat as being in splen did shape and giving promise of a large yield. Needs 310.000 for Mining Congress. Portland, July 2.—The committee In charge of local arrangements for the American Mining Congress, to be held here on August 22-27. has raised 85000 so far, and announces that they will need 35"<»O more to complete the arrangements for entertainment of the guest*. BRAES. and the joys of carriage riding are at their best, provided you have the right vehicle. You will If you make your selection at Neagle's. We have •'srriages to suit every fancy, from phaetons to buckboards, and every one made right In style and finish, guaranteed to give the easiest riding and most durability. We have the celebrated Winona wagons, hacks and buggies. Made for this climate. Call and see them. We set your tires while you wait, on the hydaullc machine. No bruis ing or burning of wheels. Adds to life of wheels. Try It and be pleased. NEAGLE8 BROS. Big Brick 8hop. l.ot me show you three quarter sec tions of the best wheat land. All ua- der cultivation; extensive Improve- ment*. plenty of water. Can ba bought for a little less than Its mar- ket value. LOG CABIN ICE CREAM Koeppen’* famous lee Cream can again bo obtained at the old fa vorite Log Cabin Soda Fountain Th«' Popular Price’ drug store A. G KOEPPEN & BROTHERS MISS BOYD Successor to K. D. Boyd. —Insurance, Real 111 Court Street Walters’ Flouring Mills Capacity, 150 barrels a day. Flour exchanged tor wbenL Flour. Mill Feed. Chopped Feed, etc., always on hand. Try the hot free lunch at the Mer chants' Cafe, 12 to 1 at noon; 4 to 6pm, and at midnight