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DAILY RA8T ()RB(iOMAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. THURSDAY, APIUL 9, 1908. MOB BIGHT PAGO. Land For One-Fourth Its Value The opportunity of owning such land on such terms comes but once in a lifetime. It is here now; are you willing and ready to grasp it ? ass ISS j 1 in : ' Fruit land, with all its great advantages, can be bought in tracts of ten or more acres at from ninety to three hundred dollars per acre, including a perpetual water supply for irrigation, on terms of one fifth down and one-fifth a year for five years, or one-fourth down and the balance at any time up to five years provided the buyer improves the land purchased, it being the intention of the campany to take one-fourth cash and let the buyer pay for his land from the crops raised on it. In other words, we will sell you, say $1,000 worth of land for which you pay us $250 cash and share your profits with us until you have paid us the remaining $750. Could anything be fairer, or do more to show our confidence in this land ? Ten acres is is enough, for under irrigation the yield per acre is more than ten times as great as from land farmed in the Mississippi valley, and a man with ten acres in fruit is independent for life. Mr.J.W. Fox will leave your city Friday April 10, at 4:30. Call at Hotel St. Geo rge and make arrangements to go and see this beautiful tract of land, even if you do not want to buy, the trip is worth the time and price. For Further Information Call or Write To SPENCER, FOX fi GREGORY WALLA WALLA WASHINGTON PORTLAND MM 1 S F ARTICLES The Portland Commercial club' prize essay contest was decided last night, says the Oregonlan. John Roach Stratton, ol Baltimore, Id., was awarded the capital prise or $1000, and Miss Mated Howe, Portland, was awarded .the second prise of $500. Eighty prises were awarded, -varying In amount from $260 to $10. A total of $B00t was distributed among SO out of 340 oenteptants. Oregon reoelved a tremendous amount of advertising as the result of the Commercial club's contest, which was carried through by Manager Tom Richardson. Not only were the articles entered In the contest, which were descriptive of Portland and Or .egon, printed In newspapers all over the United States, but a number of prize winning stories were published In foreign papers. The content was a great success from every standpoint, and particu larly in that It aroused widespread In terest In this state because of the publicity secured, the obect of the Commercial club In launching the contest. Judges In the contest were Prof. James P. Ewlng of Portland academy. J. P. Tyler, news edtter of the Ore gon Journal, and W. . Cuddy, editor of the Weekly Oregonlan. The com mittee returned Its finds last night. Judge Face Huge Task. It was a monumental task for the committee to decide upon the merits of the large number of articles sub mitted. In a number of articles con testants submitted a number of arti cles, one entering 63 consecutive let ters appearing In a weekly publica tion. It was decided at the outset by the Judges that only one prize should be awarded to Individual contestants. The contest was started In the spring of 1908, and was at first plan ned to Include only articles by school teachers who visited the Lewis and Clark fair from the east. It was be lieved that If the impressions of these I teachers were written and printed In periodicals printed outside of Oregon, the resulting publicity would prove very beneficial for Oregon. The scope of th contest was enlarged I little later to include any one who wished to enter. Checks will be written tomorrow by Manager Tom Richardson, of the Commercial club, ami mailed to prize winners. Mis How Portland (iirl. Miss Mateel Howe, winner of sec ond prize, was a Kansas girl, having been born In Atchison, Kan., 54 years ago. Site has lived In Portland the past two years. Although a child of tho prnlrles, she has come to like Portland and Its nearby mountains better than the plains of the mlddlo west, as her prise whining rtory shows. Miss Howe received her education In some of the best eastern schools, helng a graduate of the Mt. Vernon seminary, Washington, D. C, where she lived for four, years. Upon grad uation, In 1906, she accompanied her father, .E W. Howe, on a trip around the world. HaVlng visited tho prin cipal cities of the world on this trip, she Is In a position to speak with con siderable authority on the charms of Portland. Miss Howe comes from a literary family. Her father is editor of the Atchison Globe and is tho author of ft number of booka His latest work Is the story of the trip around the world, which has had a large sale. Miss Howe's two brothers are news paper men. She has been a contrib utor to various periodicals for some time The Independent,, New York, recently printed one of her stories and another will appear In the Ladies' Home Journal in the July number. She got her name, Mateel, from the heroine of her father's book, "The Story of a Country Town." All who have watched Miss Howe's progress are enthusiastic about her work and predict n brilliant future for her. The -report of the Judges of the contest Is as. follows: Thomas Richardson, Manager Commercial club: Your committee, appointed by Gov ernor George E. Chamberlain to de cide the prise contest for the best sustained stories of Portland and vi cinity, beg leave to report: treroii Widely Advertised. That in all about 340 contestants submitted articles and the total num ber of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals n which stories ap peared will reach about 400. The newspapers used as vehicles for tho stories are publications Issued In every state of the union and in many of the prominent cities of the coun try. Articles submitted and accepted have been published in several for eign newspapers, noticeably In Great Britain, Canada and Mexico. The contest was far-neachlng in Its good results and not oly were the articles forming the bulk of the correspond ence published In the newspapers to which they were submitted by con testants, but the clipping bureaus show thai they were extensively copied and commented upon In hundreds of pub lications not entered. as "competitive" papers. As an advertising medium no bet ter method could haw been adopted. When the returns shall have been checked up the results will undoubt edly show that Portland and Oregon have been benefited to the extent of thousands upon thousands of dollars. Roughly estimated, the direct adver tising value of the articles entered In the contest would have cost about $25,000. Junt how much more of ad vertising value could be totaled from Indirect results will probably be bet ter calculated later In the season. Every article entered In the contest was given the most careful considera tion. Each member of the commit tee passed on the stories and In many cases there were two and three read ings of one article. A deal of time has been consumed In arriving at conclusions as to prises, but this could not have been avoided as the reading and rereading of ap proximately 800,000 words of copy had to bo done at odd hours, as all of your committee are busy men. No one of us has sllghtted the work and contestants can rest assured that no snap judgment was taken of their work. Trusting that the findings of the committee will please the club and satisfy the contestants, we are, re spectfully, JAMES F. EWING. JAMES & TYLER, W. J. CUDDY. $100 Reward. $100. 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The voters of Cove will not vote for any man for any office, not even constable, who Is not a state ment No. 1 man. No others need ap ply. Neither will we support any man for office who was opposed to statement No. 1 and turned over to get votes. We find a few such men now on the ticket, but the voters of Cove will say to such men: "Depart, we know you nit; we stand for the people first, the party be d ." Plenty of Trouble Is caused by stagnation of the liver and bowels. To get rid of It and headache and biliousness and the poison that brings Jaundice, take Dr. King's Now Life Pills, the reliable purifiers that do the work without grinding or griping. 26c at Tallman & Co.'s drug store. Judge Dowllng Have you anything to say against the verdict? Prisoner (who has received life sentence) Only that If I don't live to serve it out I wish you would put my attorney In to finish It., Judge Announcements of Candidates Candidate for re-nomlnat on by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1808. FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE. C. A. Barrett (Present Incumbent.) Candidate for the nomination by the republican party at trie coming primary election to be held April 17. 1908. FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE. L L. Mann I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination by the republican party at the coming primary election to be held April 17. 1908, FOR REPRESENTATIVE. C. W. Steen Candidate for re-nomlnat on by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17. 1908. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, Geo. W. Bradley (Present incumbent.) Candidate for re-nominat on by the Republican party at tne coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1908. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Horace Walker (Present Incumbent.) For Umatilla and Morrow counties. Candidate for the nomination by the republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1908. FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE T. J. Mahoney Candidate for the nomination by the Republican party at the coming primary election to be held April 17. 1908. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. A. H. Sunderman I hereby announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination, at the coming primary election, to be held April 17. 1908. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. J. Hudemann Commission work surely calls for a man of experience as the duties of a commissioner are of a serious and Im portant nature. I have proven myself qualified for the position, and I am the only can didate with two years previous ex perience In railroad commission work, having served on the commission In 1901 and 1902. If you believe in electing a man to this important office who will give the people a "Square Deal," and one who thoroughly understands a commission er's duty from past experience, I earn estly solicit your support and vote. Yours respectfully, A. N. Hamilton REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the nomination for the of fice of County Commissioner, subject to the approval of the people at the primaries, April 17. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Joe Bailey I hereby announce ray candidacy for the nomination by the democrat! party, at the coming primary electlea to be held April 17, 1908. FOR COUNTY RECORDER John Q. Peebler Candidate for Republican nomina tion for STATE RAILROAD COMMISSIONER A practical railroad man. Stands for enforcement of the law, proper inspection of railroads; equitable rates. C. C. LOUCKS Candidate for re-nomlnatlon by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17. 1908. FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERIN TENDENT. Frank K. Welles (Present incumbent.) I hereby announce my candidacy for the republican nomination for re-election as district attorney, sixth Judic ial district, subject to the action of the republican voters at the coming primary election, April 17, 1908. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY. G. W. Phelps Candidate for re-nomlnatlon by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1901 RECORDER OF CONVEYANCES. Fred W. Hendley (Present incumbent) I hereby announce my candidacy for the re-nomlnatlon, at the primary election to be held April 17, 1908, for sheriff. FOR SHERIFF. T. D. Taylor (Present Incumbent.) Candidate for re-nomlnatlon by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1908. FOR COUNTY CLERK. Frank baling (Present Incumbent.) Candidate for the noflnatton ey the republican party at the coming pri mary' election to be held on April 17, 1908. FOR COUNTY RECORDER Chas. E. Macomber Candidate for re-nominatlon by the Republican party at the coming pri mary election to be held April 17, 1908. FOR COUNTY CORONER Ralph Folsom (Present Incumbent.) Hereby announces his candidacy for the nomination of COUNTY CORONER at the Republican primary election, to be held April 17, 1908. Chas. WJWall I W. R. ELLIS FOR CONGRESS. f Present Incumbent and an Eastern Oregon Man.' The following abstract from the oflclal vote of the primaries ot April 20, 1906, shows the relative strength of the congressional can didates In their home counties. This Is the supreme test of a man's standing In any community, and Is more eloquent than words. FOR GOVERNOR. Marlon County James Withycombe (of Benton county) 1734 votes Marion County T. T. Geer (of Marlon county) 1209 votes Union County Withycombe 497 votes Union County Geer 332 votes "Y! FOR GOVERNOR AND CONGRESS. Umatilla County T. T. Geer, for governor 483 votes Umatilla County W. R. Ellis, for congress 1207 votes Union County T. T. Geer, for governor 332 votes Union County W. R. Ellis, for congress 506 votes In the interest of harmony vote for GEORGE S. SHEPHERD Republican Candidate for Congress Stands for Election of Senators by direct vote of the people, Postal Savings Banks and an Open River to the Sea Chickens Wanted Highest Cash Price Paid For Live Poultry Umatilla Meat Company 301 East Court 'Phone Main 191 ,
