Ladies
By all means don't forget
the Big Wash Suit and Dress
Sale. About 40 kit tor
Saturday, values up to
$ 1 7.50, your choice
$6.48
Drawing tomorrow night, 8 o'clock
F. . Livcngood & Co.
PERSONAL
MENTION
LOCALS
Pastime pictures please all.
Flock Spring coal, Henry Koplttke.
Bed dot & Miller, exclusive plumb
erg. Bit line of big rugs at a small
price, Pendleton Furniture Co.
S. Hellry Koplttke fur Rock
springs coal. Phone Main 178.
For Sale Feed and ch.p mill,
practically new. Inquire tills office.
If you want good dry wood, ring
up Henry Koplttke. phono Ma n ITS
When In need of plumbing ring
I'.-ddow & Miller, phone black, 3558.
Automobile stage to Ihmun
spring. Inquire Pendleton Auto Co.
More moving pictures shown than
any other theatre In the city the
I'u.-Ulme.
We carry a complete line of Mitch
ell hacks and buggies. Nissen Imple
ment Co.
For rent Four room cottage, good
location and condition. Inquire lOo
B. Hluff street.
Prompt plumbing work at right
prices. Bcddow & Miller, the exclus
ive plumbing shop.
1 light after releasing his parachute
from a gas bulloon. The parachute
dropped across the electric wires at
the street Intersection and Immediate
ly caught fire. . Wlldez fell to the
froupd, a distance of about 30 feet,
sustaining a sprlncd ankle.
Wlldei and Professor Charles De-
Xorn made a double eacension from
the grounds of the midsummer fair
of the Catholic Young Men's club at
the corner of Willlums avenue and
Stanton street at 7:30 in the evening.
A northwest breeze was blowing and
both balloons were carried over the
0 i D.NON made the parachute
Jump in safety, but Wilde, came down
directly bvw the high tension wires
carrying the electric current which j pndleton today.
furnished light and power for a large
portion of the city. When the para
( hutc fouled the wires the aeronaut
i pad to the ground.
Both Wlldez and DeNora are pupils
of Professor Frank Millar and have
boi n making ascensions and para
i hute Jump, for some time. The
parachute used by Wlldez was de
stroyed. His balloon dropped on the
roof of the Holladay school and was
not damaged.
K. Sharp of Athena, is a Pendleton
business visitor.
Bert Hall, a Long Creek rancher,
Is a Pendleton business visitor.
L. H. Phelps, of Granite, Is tran
sacting business In Pendleton.
Dr. j. A. Donaghue, the veterinari
an, was called to Hermiston this inorn-
Inir
J. A. McConnell and family are
spending the summer ut Lehman
sprlngi.
Dr. C. J. Smith and family return
ed this morning from a visit to the
Seattle fair.
M. L. Morrison, the Helix mer
chant, is In from that place today on
a business trip.
F. Clay Klnehart and wife of El
gin, are the guests of friends In this
city for a few days.
Major Lee Moorhouse returned last
evening from a visit of a few days at
the Seattle exposition.
Ed Peters returned this morning
from Seattle, where he had been for
a visit to the exposition.
Glen Quiett returned to his home at
Harnhart, this morning, after an over
night visit to Pendleton.
Miss Katherlne Sharp, of Athenu,
arrived last evening from Newport and
left for her home this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Whlttley of Ad
ams, have returned home after a
brief trading visit to the county seat.
E. J. Brown, representing the Pa
cific Coast Paper company, is in Pen
dleton for a few days in the interest
of his house.
Mr. and Mrs. James Keeney left
tills morning for Sharilgo, where they
are making their home during the
summer months.
Miss Janet Weittenhlller of Platte
ville, Wisconsin, Is visiting at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. A. F. May,
5U1 Bush street.
.1 D. Peck of Pasco, Washington,
ll h re as a witness in the Warner
- Young will contest hearing, which is
a iw in progress,
it, c. Chariot on, supervisor of the
O. K. & N. block signal service, Is in
town today oy business connected
with h'. department.
Pr-1 W. An'dr. vs of Echo, is in
He is Interested in
ALEXANDER'S
Saturday Specials
Will Be Crowd Bringers
$1 .25 to $3.00 Corsets, sizes 24 to 36, sale price 50c
65c to $1.25 Fancy Hose, sale price . 3 for $1.00
Lawns 12 1 -2c to 1 5c values, sale price . 8 l-3c
Lawns 20c to 25c values, sale price . . 15c
Lawns 40c to 50c values, sale price . 33 l-3c
Summer Parasol Specials
$3.00 values on sale at $2. 15
$2.50 values on sale at
values on sale at
$2.00
$1.85
$(.25
the I
CH USED
i P TRIES
TO li: N HIMSELF
Portland. Removing his shoes ana
Sting them Into the river, from the
Buy the Mitchell wagon, the caTiTs't ' :lst nPPWach of the Hurnslde bridge
running wagon made. Xlssen Imple
ment Co., sole agent'.
Git you a Mitchell Wagon before
wagons take another raise. Nissen
Implement company.
Two colored women want situation
as cooks In harvest or will work by
the day. Apply 118 E. Bluff St.
Will sell or lease hotel doing good
business. Terms reasonable. Good
reasons for selling. Address Mrs. F.
Myers, Helix, Oregon.
Owing to the fact that our spring
shipment of large rugs has Just ar
rived we will sell them cheaper than
ever. Pendleton Furniture Co.
Found-Lndv's gold bracelet, Sun
day afternoon on Court sereet. Finder
may have same by Inquiring at this
office and paying for this notice.
this morning, Y. Fugiokn, a Japanese
whose actions showed that he Is de
mented, was prevented from leaping
to his death in the water this morning
by Desk Sergennt Harms and Patrol
Driver Gruber, who reached the spot
horn police headquarters barely in
time to prevent the suicide. When the
Japanese had thrown his footwear In
to the water he leaped over the rail
and evidently debated whether or not
U follow them. A man who saw his
act telephones the police, and Harms
hurried to the bridge In the patrol
wagon. Driver Cruber trotted his
burses past the man, and Harms
Jumped off and seized the Japanese
Just as he was climbing over the rail
ing, having made up his mind to die.
The would-be suicide struggled hard,
but with Oruber's osslstance was
handcuffed bv Harmes and bundled
Ladles I have the ngency from the , , ., ,..,,,,,', taken to the cltv oris
Inventors for the latest methods of n ,, puc,,( in pH(Uec1 cell." other
Those wishing to learn
20 Aura. Also patterns
dress cutting
please call at
cut to order.
Lost Between Hospital and South
Main street, a baby's necklace and
cross, with initials "K. J. M." Finder
please return to this office and re
ceive reward.
AERONAUT PUTS
OUT PORTLAND LIGHTS
Japanese who followed the wagon to
the station said that Fugloka is a la
borer, nnd had recently given signs
of being mentally unbalanced. He re
fused to talk to the police.
"Something wrong here." remarked
( in' of the ilttle brown men, tapping
his forehead significantly as he gav
ed nt his Insane countryman. "If
man not crazy,, him keep on shoes
make Jump Into water."
Portland, July IS, Through the
fouling of electric light wires by a
parachute Jumper at 7:45 o'clock last
evening, Portland was cut off from
"Juice" for a period of about half an
Xo Woodpeckers in Salem,
Salem Statesman: To the stranger
within our gates: The city is not In
fested with woodpeckers. That noise
you hear Is caused by the automatlo
hour. The accident happened at East riveting machine which Is helping
Sixth and Wasco streets as Professor Oregon's capital city to obtain ts first
Carlos Wlldez was attempting to steel-frame business block.
the injunction suit filed against
Henrietta Milling company.
United States Attorney John Mc
Court is up from Portland In t-stifv
in the Warner-Young will contest case
hearing which l on today.
Rev, H. E. Storey, pastor of the
j Baptist church, returned last evening
rrom a weeK s vacation, which was
spent in eastern Washington.
Conductor R. Whistler of the Elgin
branch. Is in the city today, huvinis
taken the place or one of the mam
line conductors for a few days. '
Mr. an,l Mrs. Adam Noble returned
to their home near Pilot Bock, this
Komlng, after attending the Noble
funeral here, yesterday afternoon.
Dr. F. D. Watts of Dent, Idaho, Is
here for the closing round in the
Young will contest, the hearing for
which was resumed this morning.
T. E. McGinltie of the Inter-state
Telephone company, returned to Pilot
Itoek this morning, after transacting
business In this city for a couple of
days.
E. B. Aldrlch, editor of the East
Oregonian, returned last evening from
Seattle where he intended the con
vention of the national editorial as
sociation. Frank O'Horra and Jesse Sallng re
turned this morning from Missoula,
where they had been to register for
the big Flathead Indian reservation
land drawing.
Mrs. Walter Adams has returned
from a visit to the Adams Brothers
ranch, near Ukiah. Miss Florence
Adams, who went out with her will
remain for u month or more longer.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams, left
tnis morning for tneir nome near
I'klah, after attending the funeral of
Mrs. Adam's father, A. B. Noble, who
was buried here yesterday afternoon,
Rev. E. W. Warrington, pastor of
the Presbyterian ehurch at Pilot Bock
came in from that place yesterday
afternoon to meet Dr. W. S. Holt,
field secretary of the Home Mission
board.
Mrs. Charles Weittenhlller, nee
LiOUlS Marple, InvV arrived at the
summer home of her parents near
Meacham. Before returning east
they will visit Seattle and other cities
in Washington and Oregon.
1 6 Button Silk Gloves in all colors, $1.50 to
vajues, sale price
$3.50 to $5.00 Oxfords, small sizes at
$ 1 .50 to $2.00 Children's Oxfor Js at
$1.75
95c
98c
75c
Alexanders
Dept.
Store
was hot after "men higher up" in the
world of graft. ' It was reported that
the prosecutor hoped that some of
these small fry would confess.
HARRY ORCHARD IS
BAPTIZED IX PENITENTIARY
Spokane, July 23. A Boise special
to the Spokesman-Review says:
Harry Orchard, murderer of ex
Oovernor Steunenberg of Idaho, ac
cording to his confession, was yes
t rday baptized at the penitentiary.
The service was read by Elder Stew
ard of the Seventh-Day Adventlst
church. Elder Steward made the fol
lowing statement after the ceremony:
"Orchard Is a devout convert and
feels his sins have been forgiven. He
told me today that he had fully de
termined to commit suicide If sent
up for life, but that In his faith he
had found consolation and was con
tent to remain behind the prison walls
for the remainder of his natural life."
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NEARLY HALF COMPLETED
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Wafer
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our Fountain,
By a convenient, easy, simple method without boiling or the aid of
chemicals Is the Pendleton people's luck at last. Our
WATER STONE
or GERM PROOF FILTERS are absolutely guaranteed to remove
every trace of TYPHOID GERM from the city water Insuring
health without the least trouble and nt small expense.
Displayed
in our
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KOEPPEN'S
The Drug Store That Serves
You Best.
Free
Demonstration
to All.
C.'jJ
H. C. Blair, principal of the Blair
business college of Spokane, arrived
in Pendleton lest evening, being called
here as a handwriting expert to testi
fy In the Young will contest hearing.
District Attorney Phelps has re
turned from a brief business trip to
Portland and Seattle.
BEGIN WAR ON THREE
HUNDRED CHICAGO GRAFTERS
Chicago. July :;). One hundred
and five graft Indictments, Involving
more than 300 persons, were re
turned yesterday by the July grand
Jury before Judge Klckham Scanlan
In the criminal court In State's Attor
ney John K. Wnyman's war on graft
--the greatest mass of indictments
ever voted in one day in Cook county.
Craft in the levee districts, graft In
saloons and slot machines In the coun
try towns and graft In Chinese gnmbl
Ing were struck a terrible blow by
the grand Jury's action.
In political circles it was the sensa
tion of the day. for experienced pol
iticians saw in his the start of great
campaign engineered chiefly by the
State Attorney's office against the city
administration.
Huge as was the day's grist of true
bills, it was reported that these wen
only a starter and Unit Mr. Waymau
Washington. July 23. Substantial
progress in canal construction all
along the line Is shown by reports
coming to the Washington office of
the Isthmian canal commission. Ex
cavation work approximates 80,000,
000 cubic yards, almost as much as
the total quantity of dirt taken out
by the French during the period the
were engaged In operations there.
Less than 100,000,000 cubic yards of
earth remain to betaken from the
ditch. Colonel Ooethals has estimat
ed that the great waterway will be
nady for transit of ships by January
1. 1915.
ONE MAN'S LEG SAVES had been burned and refused to heal
ANOTHER MAN'S LIFE Thus by a strange process will the
traveling salesman soon be able to
Portland. George A. Stockder, a go about his business, while the La
traveling salesman who was fright- Grande logger will stump about, find-
fulry burned about his face and body ing some compensation for his loss in
on the morning of May 24 last by an the fact that the leg, useless to him.
explosion of gas in his apartments at was the means of saving another
763 Marshall street, and whose con- man's life,
ditlon had been critical until a few ,
days ago, is on the road to swift re
covery, all because Charles Hazerty
of La Grande, Ore., suffered an ac- i
cldent that necessitated the ampu- I
tation of his right leg.
The attending surgeons skillfully
cut the skin from Hazerty's amputat
ed limb and placed it on Stockder's
body in places where his own flesh j I
THE
PENDLETON
DRUG CO.
TOUR BEST I NVESTMENT OUR EXPERIENCE
LONDON S l ' I'FR A G ETES
TOO BAD FOR JAIL
London, July 23. Six out of It
suffragettes who were recently Im
prisoned in the Holloway jail for
breaking windows at Whitehall have
1 n released on account of insubor
dination, nnd Herbert Gladstone,
Secretary of the house of commons
today that It was only a question of
0 few days until nil would be turned
out
The women were defying all the
prison rules, and now ' Mr. Glodstone
-aid they had taken to kicking nnd
1 it ing the female wardens.
There arc 30 different kinds of new
roses for this year alone in England
Wh re rose culture abounds.
There is still pending in the Eng
lish law courts a case which was ini
tiated In 1797.
Synopsis of the Annual Statement of the Prudential In
surance Company of America of Newark, in the state of
New Jersey, on the 31st day of December, 1908, made
to the Insurance Commissioner of the state of Oregon,
pursuant to law:
CAPITAL
Amount of capital paid up $ 2,000,000.00
INCOME.
Premiums received during the year $ 53,230,281.63
Gross Interest, dividends and rents received during the
year 7.033,421.89
Income from other sources received during year 73,327.90
Total Income $ 60,337,031.42
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid to policy holders durinj the year t 19,496,113.52
Dividends paid during the year on capital stock 200.000.00
Commissions and salaries paid during the year 12.434.166.37
Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year 1,249,895.10
Amount of all other expenditures 3,248,165.97
Total expenditures $
ASSETS.
Market value of real estate owned J
Market value of stocks and bonds owned
Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc
Premium notes and policy loans
Cash in banks nnd on hand
Net uncollected and deferred premiums
Other assets (net) , ,
36.628.340.96
12,110.144.80
95,932,859.75
3S.61S.581.39
10,061. 074. S3
11.399,698.42
3.958.392.18
1.791,017.19
S 173,871. 76S. 62
Total admitted assets
LLVBILITIFS.
Net reserve, Including special reserve $ 136.620,308.00
Total policy claims 703 593 58
All other liabilities 36.714.917 04
Total liabilities j 174.03S.S1S.62
Total insurance In force December 31, 1908 jl 446 178 8Mi 00
BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THII YEAR.
TOW risks written during the year j
Gross premiums received during the year , . ,
Premiums returned during the year
Losses paid during the year
Lisses incurred during the year . .
Total amount of risks outstanding In Oregon December
lw 445.999.00
rilll PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY of AMERICA,
By Leslie D. Ward. Vice-President
statutory resident genera) agent snd attorney In fact:
John Paner, Supt Industrial Dept., Rothehlld Building; p. m. Howard
Manager Ord. Dept., 118-11 Corbett Building, Portland. Oregon.
W. H. Daugherty, Special -;ent. ISO Center street. Salem, Oregon
231.111.00
13.696.5:i
5.60
518.00
- 532.00
Cares Biliousness, Sick
Headache, Sour Stom
ach, Torpid Liver and
Chronic Constipation.
Pleasant to take
OHIHD
Laxative Fn ... Syrup
Cleanses the system
thoroughly and clears
sallow complexions of
pimples and blotches.
It is guaranteed
KOEPPEN BROTHERS.