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PAGE EIGHT. DAILY EAST OREQONIAN, PENDLETON. OREGON, WEDNE8DAY, JUNE 22, 1904- .J I CANVAS SHOES and OXFORDS ! Juat right for warm weather. Cool and comfortable. Men's Canvas Shoes W-M, "d fQ Men's Canvas Oxfords " i Youth's and Boys' Canvas Shoos Jj" Llttlo Gents' Canvas Shoes :r,V,',V.4r Ladles' Canvas Oxfords $1-25 and $1.50 Ladles' Canvas Shoes J" Men's Oxfords. Blzos 11 to 2...... 1-2B Children's Canvas Oxforda, 8& to 11 '-00 J DINDINGER, WILSON & CO. GOOD SHOES CHEAP. 'Phone Main 1131. VOLUNTEER ALFALFA. Astonishing Growth Made This Year on a Hillside of Gravel. T. O. Halloy has a patch of volun teer alfalfa Just eaat from his resi dence, which ho Is watching with Interest, and from which ho expects to secure seed for many acres of land up Wild Horse. Just over tho stono wall surround ing Mr. Hailoy's lawn Is a gravel bed and stretch of what was thought to bo barren soil. Last year It produc ed many pebbles for tho children to .throw Into tho river some dlstnnco below, but nothing more This year. In some manner unknown, It has fath ered a largo and thrifty crop of al falfa. No ono planted It, hut llko Topsy, "It Just growed." It has not been Irrigated, and has been loft to take care of Itself, yet a day or so ago Mr. Halloy pulled ono 'of tho stalks, which came two Inches nbovo his shoulder. Mr. Halley thinks that such enterprise should bo recognized, and will allow tho little crop to go to seed, when ho will harvest It and sow It In ono of bis fields, hoping to securo an extra hardy variety from the experiment. STEELE FARM SOLD. IIDIM5 CELEBRATE AFFAIR WILL LAST FOR A WEEK OR MORE. Opens With a Big Feast July Third Whole Observance Will Have Add ed Importance Because of the Fail ure to Celebrate by Pendleton Or der of Business and Program Will Be Arranged From Day to Day. Half 8ectlon In the Juniper Country Has Increased Over 400 Per Cent In Six Years.. .0. F. Steele, deputy assessor for the Juniper district, has sold 320 acres of farming land, at tho forks of tho Junlpar, 23 miles north of Pen dleton, to William Mills, who lives in Juniper, near Vansyclo station, for tho" sum of $3000. Tho farm consists of 280 acres of wheat land and 40 acres of rough pasturo land, and was purchased by 'Mr. Steele Blx years ago, for $650, allowing an increase In value of over 400 pur cent In six years. Mr. Mills owiib a section of wheat land near this placo and now has ono of tho most cholco tracts of farming land In that section of tho county. Mr. Stool'o, on selling this farm, Foot Powder For Sore, Blistered, Aching and Sweating Feet. We Guarantee This to Cure Either of These Complaints or Money Refunded. Tallman & Co. LEADING DRUGGISTS. purchased tho Ellas Hovol place, con sisting of 144 acres at Nolln sta tion, 19 miles west of this city, for 4400. This Is ono of tho best hay ranches In Hinf nnrt n f thn county, having about 50 acres in alfalfa, but pro duces threo crops with winter irriga tion, three largo orchards, an abund anco of rich garden land, and largo quantities of timber on tho Umatilla river, which runs through tho farm. Mr. Steelo will take possession of tho placo on November 1, and will movo his family thero about that timo to rcsido permanently. His house is only 300 yarus irom a scnooi house, and ho considers that ho has ono of tho best smull farms in the county. Thero is a largo quantity of river bottom laud on tho placo that can bo seeded to alfalfa, In addition to that already in cultivation. Mr. Steolo made tho purchaso In timo to got a share of tho last two crops of nlfalfa this year. WOODHAULING. AT KAMELA. Teams Are In Demand to Haul to the Station at $1 Per Cord for Two Mile Haul. T -T Btnlihlnflnlil has hist returned from Kamela, whero ho and his broth er, George, nave put soverai teams at work hauling wood from tho timber to tho station. Prices paid for haul ing rango from $1 to $1.75 per cord according to tho distance. For a two-mllo haul $1 per cord is paid, each team making four trips per day, at this distanco, bringing in a cord and a quarter each trip, making a total of $5 per day per team. The expenses of keeping a team there amounts to about 1 per day. A largo amount of wood will bo hauled this season, and many teams aro now omployed in tho camps at Mcachani and Kamela. LEWI8TON CAPITALIST. President of the Commercial National Bank Is In Pendleton. ' It. C. Beach of Lowlston, president of tho Commercial National hank which opened its doors today, is In town. Mr. Beach camo here to bo present nt tho opening of tho bank, and will remain until all is running smoothly, when ho will return to Lowlston. While In town Mr. Beach Is tho guest of his Bister, Mrs. T. O. Halley. 8HORT SE88ION TONIGHT. No Prospects for Antl-Flreworks Leg islation In the City. Tho city council, from nil indica tions, will have a short session this evening, as there Is at present noth ing sight but tho usual routine. The firecracker ordlnan'co has not as yet been born, tho city attornoy having been too busy to take tho mat ter up. Purchased C. 8. Jackson Home. F. W. Schmidt, tho druggist, has purchased tho C. S. Jackson homo on Jackson street, and will occupy It soon after July 4. This is ono of tho best residences in tho city, having been constructed on a specially de signed plan and of tho best material obtainable. Tho Indians aro proparing for a big Fourth of July celebration this year, nnd will moko merry for a week or 10 days in observing tho birth of tho nation. It is their custom to obsorvo the national holiday each year, but this year thoy nro pronarlng to havo an extra gorgeous timo In vlow of tho fact that Pondloton will not celebrate nnd thoy will havo tho wholo time to themselves. Tho celebration will open with a big fenst at which all tho Indians will assemble, and which will In all prob ability ho hold on tho ovonlng of July third. All tho good things of tho res ervation will bo brought out for the feast, and It will such a largo one that tho second day of tho celebration will ho given tip to sleeping off tho effects. On July 4 thero will In all likeli hood bo some horse racing, and tho big rclobratlon procession held in tho ovonlng. Outsldo of theso features nnd the dancing thero Is no sot pro gram, the celebration being arranged from day to dav by tho old men who manage tho nffair. It will take three or four days for tho Indians to got warmed up, and tho dancing and hard part of tho celebration will como last, whilo the feasting and other such parts easy to accomplish will head tho list. MANY IDLE MEN. r Charter No. 7301. Commercial National Bank of Pendleton Capital $50,000 I ; s '"i I Ijt&Siocnhofdcrs' Liability 530,000 II. C. BEACH, President. Ti 'C. 'HAILBY," Vice-President. A . 7W. L THOMPSON, .'Cashier. Returning Sheepshearers From Mon tana Now En Route to the Harvest Fields. Thero aro many Idle men in tho city Just now, going to tho harvest holds of Sherman and uuuani coun ties, and also to tho hay fields of Eastern Oregon. Shecpshearlng is practically com pleted In Montana, and tho great hordo of men that passed through hero six weeks and two months ago, bound for tho north, Is now returning to tho wheat and hay belts to work through tho harvest. In Eastern Oregon counties the wild hay crop is Just now coming on, and hay harvest will last for four weeks. By that timo grain harvest will begin and last until Octobor. As tho combined harvesters aro not in uso further east in tho Grande Rondo nor Baker county, there is still a heavy demand for men to work on tho old stylo .threshers. Tho wild hay harvest in thoso dis tricts Is also an Important feature of the harvests, as sovcral hundred thousand tons aro cut there each year, and the crop Is exceptionally good this year. inc lllnoso with cancer of tho stom ach. , nov. King loft this city sovorm months ago for Moscow, hoping that .linnno nt Mlmntn II till location would benefit Mrs. King's health, but sho grew constantly worse nuor iuv- Ing hero. U'l.lln rPBldnntB of this city for two yenrs, during Mr. King's term as pas tor of tho First Baptist church, thoy mado many frlonds. Tho funorai win bo nom in xuuuuun today, and Interment will tako place thero. GOING EA8T. M. A. Rader and Wife Will Start for Indiana Friday. M. A. Under returned this morn ing from ohman Springs, whore ho accompanied his children and Mrs. Pearl McDutf nnd sottled them In camp for tho summer. They will re main thero whllo Mr. and Mrs. Kador aro on tholr Eastern trip. Thoy will loavo on Friday for Indiana points and various places of Interest throughout tho EaBt, nnd returning will visit tho St. Louis oxposltlon. Thoy will bo gono a couple- of months. Will Attend Law School. W. C. E. Prultt, telegraph editor of the Morning Tribune, will enter law school at Portland at tho beginning of tho next school year, about Sep tember 1, to finish a course partly completed In tho East. Mrs. Prultt will accompany him and thoy will re side In Portland during tho coming winter. After completing his law course Mr. Prultt wll return to Pen dleton and ongago In the practlco of law permanently. Prohibitionists to Convention. The Orogon dologntlon to the na tional convention, which meets In In dlannpolls, on Juno 29, passed through this morning In a special party. Tho company was In charge of It. W. Kelsoy, tho temperance lec turer of Nowuorg, who Is spokesman nnd mnnager for tho delegates. Tho general concensus of opinion Is that Uoncral Nelson A. Miles will bo tho nominee of tho convention for pres ident. It is now generally conceded that ho will accept. HEAVY PURCHASE OF WHEAT. Brings Ten Cents Less Than Was Of fered Last Fall. T. Q. Montgomery has bought 1C,- 200 bushels of wheat in tho vicinity of Pendleton and Athena during the past two or three days, and will ship tho lot to tho Tacoma mills as soou as ho can securo cars. Tho grain -was bought at 60 cents a bushel, which figure was 10 cents less than tho prlco refused by the owner for tho same wheat last fall. Tho market Is now quoted at 59 cents, nnd is very weak at that, tho exporters seeming not to want wheat at nny figure. A few mills nro still In tho market for small pur chases, but as a rulo thero Is nothing doing, and what wheat Is left in tho county has a good chance of walling somo timo for a buyer. 8ITE 8URVEYS. Bulger-Boyd. Wilbur F. Bulger and Miss Agnes M. Boyd, both of Echo, wero married nt 9 o'clock last evening at tho M. E. parsonago by Itov. Robert Warner. Miss Boyd Is n daughter of H. Boyd, the pioneer merchant of Echo, nnd Mr. Bulger Is well known In that locality. They loft for Echo on tho evening trnln, whoro thoy will mako their homo. Those present at tho ceremony wero Thad Barnes, Sophia Pugslcy nnd Clnthla Coburn. How 1$ This? OUR REMOVAL 8ALE 18 MOVING THE GOODS, ft vc, r ..n iuuh "F0RT8 TO He MOVE. m Tl THflftF WHO HA P Mrvr win,-. ... " - " lo"fcU US BEFOtei n"n " THE8E PRICES. : 15 POUND8 SUGAR, $1.00 8ACK j I3EITZ TUBULAR LANTERNr SET GLAS8 8AUCE DIRHFH VJ i..., ft 1 t acoav nriVAVi ni add H , ........ uo 8ET PLAIN JELLY GLAS8E8, NO TOPS jj.' 10-QUART TIN WATER PAIL AT ... ' WE CANNOT ENUMERATE ALL. COME AND SEE P YOURSELF. Owl Tea Housed 4 Accounts of FIrmB, Individuals and Corporation Invited. Four por cent Intorost tallowed on savings deposits SAFETY .DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. Grades and Elevations Being Estab lished for New School Buildings. J. W. Klmbrell commenced tho work of surveying tho now school houso sites on tho north and east sides for tho grades and elevations' required by tho city ordinances. Ah soon as this work is completed C. E. Troutman, the architect In charge of tho buildings, will begin tho work of making tho final plans for tho struc tures. It Is probablo that tho contracts for tho foundations of tho two build ings will bo lot together. In order that the work can bo dono while tho plans for tho ro3t of tho buildings nro bolng completed. Tho advertisements for tho contracts will bo called for in a few days, and tho work will bo begun In as short a time as Is possible. NEW WEATHER OBSERVER. H, F. Johnson Appointed and Will Make Future Reports. Pendleton's weather Is bolnc ob served onco more. For tho space of a month no ono has Iookod after it, and tho peoplo have had to take what came; but such conditions wero so uncertain that tho government has appointed H. F. Johnson observer and ho will In tho futuro soo that Pendle ton gets tho best that tho shop holds. Ho ihas moved tho paraphernalia of tho ofllce to his homo and makes tho observations and necessary measure ments each morning at. C o'clock. MRS. R. W. KING DEAD. Wife of Former Baptist Pastor of This City Dies at Moscow, Idaho. Mrs. R, W. King, wlfo of tho for mer pastor of tho Baptist church In this city, died at her homo at Mos cow, Idaho, yosterday, aftor a linger- McRae-Call. T. M. Call, of this city, was mar ried this afternoon In Portland to Minn Mnueln Mcllao. a VOU11C lady of East Portland. Mr. Call has been for somo timo tho night miller at tno Byors Mill, and Is well known to a largo circle of friends here. Aftor a short visit, in Portland Mr. nnd Mrs. Call will return and occupy tho W. J. Clarko place on East court street. Blacksmith Shop at Kamela. It. J. 8tubblofluld of this city has decided to start a blacksmith shop at Kamela, and has mado all arrange ments for beginning work. About 50 teams are working tributary to Ka niola, and tho repair work Is very heavy owing to tho heavy hauling and rough mountain roads. This Is tho first shop to bo operated at Kamola for IS years. Stage Gulch Farm Sold. Victor Lldwoll yesterday bought the Haun placo, in Stngo Gulch, through tho agency of tho Bontloy Hnrtman real estate company, paying sisnri'fnr tlin tract of 160 ncres. Tho land Is all in wheat and Is ono of tho best known rancnes oi mat section. New Bottling Works. John Oagon, who was formerly ono of Pendleton's loading business men, has again engaged In business lion and has oponed tho Pioneer Mottling Works In tho basement under the Ho tel Bickers, whore ho will manufni turo tcmpornnco drinks of nil Kinds. NEW NOVEL NECKWEA FOR DMMEDIATE USE IT 18 THE KIND OF NECKWEAR THAT 1$ CORR 8TYLE, SHAPE, COLOR AND PATTERN, AND IF YOU 1 TO BE "RIGHT" JUST INVESTIGATE. WE HAVE NEW SILK8 IN RUMCHUNDA8, BARM PANUDA8 AND CORVELETTE IN CHAMPAQNE, DAPPLE GREY AND 8TAPLE COLOR8. NEW 8HAPES WILL ALSO INTEREST. THE NEW ONES ARE JUST OPENED UP AND I "AT SIGHT." Boston Stoi I ; t 4 i3 Marriage License Issued. A marriage Hconso whs issued this morning to Gerald Tuttlo and MIsr Myrtle Smith, whoso wedding will bo solomtilzcd this evening In tho Church of tho Hetloomor, by Rev W. L, Vnn Niiys, of tho Presbyterian church. Attending Baptist Convention. Row O. L. Hnll and L. E. Ponland arc attending tho meeting of the Eastom Orogon Baptist Association at Ontario this wcok. They expect to return Friday. Al Despaln to 8o!omon City. Tho East Oregonlan is In receipt of a letter from A. M. Despaln, stating that ho la leaving Kodlak Island, Alaska, for Salomon City, whero ho will reside in futuro, Returned From Valley. E. A. Schlffler, tho tailor, returned this morning from a week's visit In Portland nnd other valloy points. He visited Albany, his former homo. Drink DESCENT REAJML It Is Fine IN t and 2 LB. SCALED TINS ONlIr MERRILL TYPEWRITER CO.. So. 7 Poit IL. Slune,0n.ot.DENSHORE TYPEWRITER suw'im ... Hinting ... kiptrt Repairing I SUMMER CLOTHING Hot weather Is here and we can make yon fee!.' with our Skeleton Clothing COATS $1.00, $1.50 to "$3.00. COATS AND VEST $4X0, $5X0 to $7X0. BAER. DAU1 One Price Furnishers and H It Is hard to teach an old M For once he told the truth Give the pup a trial, For the old do. 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