V.i"''"''"' a DAILY EAST OREGOXIAN. PENDLETON. OREGON. MONDAY, MABC1I IS, 1911. - KIQIIT PAGBB r pagk new - " ; it MONOPOLE Canned Goods, mean canned goods of Highest Quality STRIXO BEANS STR1XGLESS BEANS LIMA BEAXS BABY REFUGE BEANS EXTRA SIFTED FEAS DIMPLE rtU SUGAR CORN SUCCOTASH A Complete Line of MONOPOLE CANNED GOODS Vhvays Carried t Stock. SEE WINDOW. OYSTERS SALMON LOBSTER S11RLMP TOMATOES ST RAW BERR1 ES BLACKBERRIES HALVED TEACHES SLICED TEACHES LEMON CLING PEACHES RASPBERRIES APRICOTS BARTLETT PEARS ROYAL ANN CHERRIES Standard Grocery Co. Inc. Where all are Pleased Frank O'Gara, Pres. Bernard O'Gara, Sec-Treas. Newsy Notes of Pendleton Attends Brother's Funeral. Arthur Elliott has Just returned from Wardner, Idaho, where he went to attend the funeral of his brother John M. Elliott. Ileal Estate Transactions. Clarence A. Andrews and wife to J Given and wife, eight acres, $3000. Andy B. Johnson and wife to C. P. Plxon and wife, their tract of land for 6100. (k'ts Delietoits ITesent. Mrs. lU'tta Wombaugh la rejoicing over the receipt of a box of Sunkist oranges, tangerines and grape fruit from southern California which was sent to her as a present. One Marriage License. Late Saturday afternoon, a marri age l'cense was issued by Clerk Sallng to Tenn's M. Johnson and Mary Helen Wilcox, both residents of this county and they were married soon afterward. Many Attend Wedding. The following is the complete list of those who attended the Roberts Post nuptials,, solemnized at the Louis Hagen ranch, six miles north west of Pendleton: Mr. and Mrs. John Roberta, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ebrcl, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sear- cey, Mr and Mrs. Frank Snyder, Mr. I and Mrs. L. D. Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Tulloek, Misses Lois Hampton, Jean Anderson Hale, Mildred Ebrel, Gladys Snyder, Messrs. Carl Eaton, James Daniels, Francis Daniels, Fountain Snyder Floyd Snyder, James Cresswell, Roy Tulloek, Kennel Dllla talr, William Rhoda, Elmer Moore. These are the names of those present from the country: Lctty McNett, Glle McXett, Mildred Allen, Myrtle Knight, May Epple, Rose Southwell, Cora Towne, Pete Shafer, Ed Hays. ECHO SUITS 10 BE BITTERLY CONTESTED (Special Correspondence.) Echo, Ore., March IS. The hear ing In the civil suit of J. C. Williams vs. N. Cecil and Bub McCulIough will be held today In the local Justice court. It promises to be a bitterly contested case. Attorney J. H. Hen slelgh of this place appears for the plaintiff and A. "W. Gray of Stanfield and L. A. Esteb of Echo represents t.ie defendants. A second suit was begun here on Saturday by H. B. Gillett against the above named defendants, Cecil and McCulIough, in a case similar to the first. Preaching services were held here yesterday morning and evening at the M. E. church by Rev. W. F. McKain. Ako morning and evening services at the Presbyterian Bethel by J. F. Ver non of Milton. At 2 p. m. the Ger man Lutheran minister. Rev. Geo. L. Sprattler, preached at the M. E. church. Mrs. F. F. McCrea of Hood River, who is president of the Woman's Mis sionary society of the Pendleton Pres bytery, gave an address in Bethel chapel on Friday morning, which was greatly appreciated. Miss McCrea left for her home on Saturday morn ing. Mrs. Jas. McLaughlin and son Ow en, returned Wednesday from a week's visit to Portland. Mrs. George Winzler and children, left Saturday for their new home at Canby, Ore., The Winzlers nave made their home a few miles east of Echo for the past eight years. Mr. Winzler Is one of Umatilla county's successful farmers, and their many friends regret to see them go. Mrs. Winzler was accompanied by Miss Lulu Hardin. Mrs. Ellen Mooney of Spokane vis led the later part of the week with and left la.t evening for Pendleton. Mrs. W. B. Hamilton has returned home from a visit in Walla Walla. Mrs. Kit Hays of Pendleton, visited here last week with her sister, Mrs. Ellen Pearson, who has been very ill th past month, but who is now very much improved. Mrs. Price Todd of Ontario, Ore., Jli here visiting with her sister, Mrs, E. E. Lewis. Mrs. P. B. Hoisington left for Spo kane last evening after a few days' visit here. Chas Pleistr was here on business last week from Pendleton. Mrs. Roy Ward and Miss Clara Rip per spent today in Pendleton. PRESIDENT MAKES AXNVAL REPOBT TO CONGRESS Declares Conunlssion Is Indispensable to Economy a"d Efficiency In Gov ernmental Affulrs. President Taft in a special message has transmitted to congress the twenty-seventh annual report of the civil service commission. The report states that the Increasing effectiveness of the merit system has strengthed the public conviction that it Is indis pensable to economy and efficiency In in governmental affairs. It is shown that the examination and efficiency in governmental affairs. It Is shown that the examination system tends to lessen the number of employes re quired under similar conditions by raising the standard of efficiency and at the same time facilitates the exten sion of governmental activities to new fields by furbishing the best practi cable means of testing qualifications for scientific, technical and profes sional work. Nothing Doing. "Can I buy four dollars' worth of chips in this here poker game?" "You cannot. Wall street is the place for the small Investor." Will Open Next Month. A. D. Frost and wife, who are to have clurge of the new Golden Rule store, arrived in the city yesterday to prepare for the opening of that es tablishment. They declared this mor ning that it would be between the first and fifteenth of next nonth be fore they would be ready to opn their doors for business. Elks Practicing Hard. The Elks and their helpers in the minstrel show held practices both Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, and under the capable direction of A. C. Grubbs, they are rapidly develop ing a show of the finest variety Some of the features of the entertainment will be given in tomorrow's Issue. Popular Catcher Buck. Dave Ward, the popular catcher on the Pendleton team last year, arrived back in the city yesterday from Pprague, Washington, where he has been working for the past ew months. He will accept the position of night clerk at the Hotel St. George. PERSONAL MENTION In the Winter Forgotten Old Jack Frost and Winter have been relegated to the past at this store -all thoughts now are of spring Our entire store la a busy scene of rearranging, displaying spring goods and preparing for the coming season, which we expect to eclipse all our past season's records. During our great sale, Just closed, we succeeded in cleaning out all tho old stock and ar now showing nothing but the very latest all new goods. VISIT OUR STORE AND IMBIBE THE . ATMOSPHERE OF SPRING. TEe New Boston Store A short purse and a long face go hand in hand, according to a philo sopher who is not afraid of mixing his A woman always calls it feminine intuition" when she succeeds in mak ing a fairly good guess. JAPAN SKES1 1 Kit "FIRST AVIATION DEMONSTRATION Ozaka, Japan, March 13. Prince KunJ Yoshi Kuni, grand son of the mikado, today complimented B. Mars and Captain Baldwin, the American Making New Front. T. Moses, proprietor of The Work Ir.gmen's Clothing Store on the cor ner of Main and Webb street, today began the remodeling of the front of his place of business. He is extend ing the windows back six feet which will give him much additional dis play space. Will Get More Hooks. City Superintendent J. S. Landers is today preparing the list of books to which the city schools, are entitled from th? - money out of the county state fund for that purpose. Pendle ton s portion for this year Is $190. . i -,i Mn.i. . i .... , i aviation demonstration in Japan. Over . . . " , ".'v. ,..r. , ,. . ,i... 1 hooks next October, the schools 400,000 people witnessed the flights. w,n turn ow the u aH Qf Attorney S. F. Wilson, the Athena member of the firm of Peterson & Wilson, is transacting business In the city today. FCnXISII-COE CONTROVERSY. Ity library their volumes of fiction, keeping on ly the reference books. (Continued from p one.) was formed by him as a selling agen cy for the Furnish lands. Coe Gets Land. On the streets today there has been much speculation as to the amount Dr. Coe received when the litigation was dropped. One rumor has It that he was given a consideration of $100,- 100 Acres of Onions G. H. L'pthegrove, secretary of the Hermlston Commercial club who spent Saturday in Pendleton, Is au thority for the statement that there will be one hundred acres of land In the Hermlston district sowed to on ions this year. He says the Fort Will Moore spent Sunday west end of the county. II. Murchll of Baker, was a Sunday visitor in Pendleton. C. E. Connely of Pilot Rock, spent Sunday In Pendleton. Matt Mosgrove came down from his home at Milton this morning. E. E. McLellan of Juniper, was among the Sunday guests In the city. S. E. Bradburn came down from his home at Coyote Saturday. A. Cameron was numbered among the Sunday guests of ahe Hotel St. George. C. W. Brownf ield has returned from Portland, where he had been for sev eral days. S. M came In this morning from their home at Adams. Mrs. Mary Poole and Mrs. Will Bowman are visitors in the city to day. Miss Mae Seller came In from her home at Pilot Rock Saturday after noon. F. G. Lucas of Weston, was In from the city of the deserted normal school yesterday. D. L. Behrens of Helix, was a guest of the Bowman Hotel Saturday af ternoon. B. F. McCulIough of Echo was among the out-of-town visitors in the city yesterday. A. E. Hascall of Pilot Rock, came in from the sheep town of the county Saturday afternoon. L. T. Link was among the Echo i people who came up to the county I seat Saturday, evening. I Clay Branstetter and two children spent the day at Coe yesterday In- i specting the Furnish dam. I Rev. A. Mackenzie Mcldrum of Athena, passed throueh thla t ltv on ! the local this morning. Mrs. Antone Xolte came over from her home at Pasco on the Northern ' Pacific train this morning. S. P. Gould, formerly of this city but now connected with the Portland G. M. Rice, cashier of the First National bank,, returned this morn ing from a trip to Walla Walla. County Clerk Frank Sallng, wire and two small children, spent Sun day on their ranch near Stanfield. Jackson Nelson of Athena, came down on the local this morning and Is transacting business in the city today. O. W. Halstead of Echo, came In from that town Saturday evening and spent part of yesterday In the city. W. J. Furnish and E. P. Marshall spent Sunday in the west end of the county looking after their Interests. O. D. Teel, the well known Echo land owner, returned to his home on Booher and son of Athena. I Lhe !ocal, th'? ra"nlnK aftcr PenJin J. M. Hays and daughter, Miss Gladys Hays, went to Athena yester day morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Almlra Foss. The Misses Alta and OUle Smith of Pilot Rock, came In from Walla Walla on the local this morning and return ed to thoir home on the 9:25 train to the sheep town. E. N. Strong, special agent for the Oregon Life Insurance company, Is spending several days In Pendleton He is accompanied by Mrs. Strong and Is staying at the Hotel Pendleton. C. D. Gabrlolson, state Insurance ad juster, is In the city from his home at Salem. Mr. Gabrlelson Is the father of Mrs, Chauncey Bishop who recent ly visited In the city. George Glnn of Walla Walla, who has just returned from a three months trip through the East, Is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Thomas Thompson. PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR Tl Com'ng as a surprise to his con gregation who had received no inti mation of their pastors contemplated action. Rev. Joel C. Llnlnger, who, for the past six months has occupied the pulpit of the local Presbyterian church, yesterday morning at the reg ular services announced that he would resign from the pastorato on the last Sunday In this month. Rev. Llnlnger has given no reason for severing his connection with the local church other than that he has been consid ering several other offers nono of which, as yet, he has accepted. The church Is now casting nbout for a successor to tho retiring m'nlster. 000, but W. J. Furnish declares thIspVaJ'ne colonists have proved that this oaorous vegetaoie can be grown with great success on the Irrigated tracts. incorrect. According to Mr. Furnish, Dr. Coe was given some land under the project but declined to make pub lic the amount of the same or to place an estimate upon its value. History of Case. The Furnish-Coe controversy, which bean last fall by a disagreement be tween Furnish and Coe, who was un der contract to sell certain of the Furnish lands near Stanfield at a cer tain commission. Matters were brought to a crisis when Coe filed two law cases in Portland for damages ag gregating almost a million and a quarter dollars and in which he made To Condemn Hendricks Land. Returns from England. cnarley Hammond, who went to England for a visit at his old home, last September, returned to Pendle ton Saturday night. This was his first visit to his native land in 40 years, he having consumed that much time In making a tour of the world. Ham mond says he enjoyed his visit to the old country very much but declares that Oregon Is good enough for him stockyards, is in the city today. I sensational charges against Furnih and his attorneys. As a counter to these suits the Furnish interests on January 19 institutes a suit in the local equity court asking for an ac counting between Coe and the Inland Irrigation company, that the contract between them be cancelled and that Coe and the Columbia Land company turn over all notes, contracts and other Instruments relating to the sale NOTICE! I will be In the following cit ies for the purpose of fitting glasses: ECHO Monday and Tuesday, March mil and 11th. At Echo hotel. HERMISTOX Wednesday and Thursday, Mar. 15th and 16. Oregon hotel. STANFIELD Friday mid Saturday, March 18th and 19th. .Stanfield hotel. Dale Rothwell OPTOMETRIST With W'm. Hanscom, THE Jeweler. As a seeming first step towards the condemnation of the Hendricks tract, adjoining the branch asylum grounds, the state board has ordered an abstract of the title to the tract. This was forwarded today to Salem by Captain Charles Murphy. The deed to the Myers tract was signed today and the state board Is now i possession of all the bottom land de sired save the Hendricks tract. of the Furnish lands In their poss.- siun. un reuruan u, Lue iuawili,.L lv, i.-,...,i. answer to tne cnarges in tnis com- Denutv Clerk w. n v Tr,,if r. luuiiu hihj on wie ame une a uiuuuii turned vesterrlav from Kntornrlao for the appointment of a receiver to where he had been to take testimony w"e liaise oi io ii';icn, toiiiiacu. m tne disputed land cases at that anu instruments was argued Derore place. He will leave for nnker tn. Judge Phelps, which resulted In the morrow niKht on a similar mission nnrt arpointment of E. J. SommerviHe to at the conclusion of the work there that position. The settlement of the controversy has caused a general rejoicing In Umatilla county as it has had a tend ency to stop development work in the west end, and, it is thought, would have a still greater depressing effect had It have been threshed out In tne courts. Furnish has been represented In these suits by the local law firm of Raley & Raley and by ex-Senaor Ful ton of Portland, while Coe has re tained as counsel Carey & Kerr, Jo seph & Heney, and A. E. Clark, all of Portland and Lowell & Winter of this city. will be through with his duties as re feree. The testimony will then be submitted to the land office and the decisions handed down thirty days thereafter. Your Entire Family Will Enjoy Seeing The Cosy PENDLETON'S NEWEST, COSIEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE PICTURE SHOW. Only theatre in Pendleton with modern convlences. Change of program Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. MONDAY AND TUESDAY. Tho Tower of London. A Country Girl. Tho Infant Heir's Disappearance, Her Husband's Deception. A Troublesome Parcel. Illustrated Son: "The Moon has Eyes on You." t Admission 10c. Children 6c Your Doctor Is Honest Honest in his knowledge of diagnosis and treatment. Honest in his endeavors for his patients' benefit. We put his medicines together in the most scientific way, under the best and safest conditions .'. Your doctor'and'your druggist guard your health "We are in business for your good health." THE PENDLETON DRUG CO. ! Umatilla County, Oregon OFFERS 1MANY ADVANTAGES I have a long list of wheat lands, stock ranches, and di versified farms. I hare resided in the county 28 years, know values, and enn show you some frood bargains. E. T. WADE Temple Big. Pendleton, Oregon. J We'll Crumble Your Doubts , If you are undecided as to where to send your suit, overcoat or dress to have It cleaned and pressed the best, all we ask is to try us once we'n crumble your doubts and give you a lob that will be sure to please. With modern methods and expert help, we are able to guarantee satisfaction. Pendleton Bye Works A Picnic In Starch. Yesterday was an Ideal day In Umatilla county and there were many who took advantage of tho warm sun to make excursions Into the country. One crowd of picnickers, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Vaughan, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hampton, the Misses Una Smith and Daphne Leasure and the Messrs. Clarence Bishop and Merle Chess man, took the local In the morning for Coe and spent the day at the Fur nish dam, returning on the local In the evening. Phone Main 19. 10 1-1 E. Alta. IxM-nl Men Seem Tlmltl. For the purpose of bidding upon the work of laying the water main from the end of the present city main to the branch asylum grounds a rep resentative of the Jahn Bros, con struction company Is here today. His company desires to bid on the asy lum extension, upon the new sewer work and upon the proposed gravrty water system. Thus far there has been a total absence of local bidders on the branch asylum work despite the fact that any local plumbing firm QUIT BUSINESS PRICES AT CLARK'S GROCERY Compare the following prices on staple groceries with those you have been paying and you'll get a good idea of the savings we can afford you on every article purchased here Canned Itcnns, peas, corn, oysters, tomatoes, reg- Cannrd Milk, 3 cans for 25c Maccaroni, regular 2 for 25c, going here at 3 for 25o BhrlmiM. 2 cans for 25a Wo can sell as cheap as Jonc of Portland, deliver promptly to your kltche door and save you the freight, tilar 2 for 25c, going here at, can Sugar beans and rice, It lbs. for. . . 100 $1.00 CLARK'S GROCERY 544-546 Main Street none Mali 174.