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EIGHT PAGES PAGE EIGHT DAILY EAST OREGON! AN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1911. WHY ? is this store the cheapest place in Pendleton to buy Groceries BECAUSE We own iur own store building and save rent- We buv for cash and discount all our bills, We operate our store at a f r less expense. It will pay you to call anJ get our prices before plac ing your orders for gro cery Gupplies. Ccmplete Jne of fruits, fancy, staple and green groceries always on hand. STANDARD GROCERY COMPANY INC. WHERE ALL ARE PLEAiiFD. FRANK CGARA, Pre. BERNARD O'GARA, Sec-Truas. Harvesters Newsy Notes : of Pendleton loloswortliys Knrouto Home. A letter has been received by local friends from C. F. Colesworthy to the effect that he and his family are now enroute home from their trip through the east. The letter was written from Chicago on Wednesday last. ISTER SENDS BULLET . INTO BRIN AND DIES (Contintued from page one.) ltrltie ami Groom Homo. A. L Sehaeffer and wife, who were married two weeks ago, returned yes-tt-rday from their honeymoon trip to Portland, Seattle. San Francisco and Medford. They have taken up their home on Water street. I Ir. C. J. Smith is Pack. I Dr. C.J. Smith arrived this morn ing on the Northern Pacific from his i eastern trip. He reports Liester ! swuceart. whom he took to a New I York specialist for treatment of I malignant growth, as much improved ' and says he will be able to make the i return trip by himself before long. BOY CHARGES FRAUD; IS Free-water Water System Done. According to City Attorney J. P, Neal of Freewater, who was in the city today, the new $16,000 water svstem in that town has been corn- It now transpires that Charles Comer alias Charles Potter, the 16-year-old boy who started procedings against E. M. Cook and Josephine Cook by complaining that 'they sold him liquor and then defrauded him of his horse is an alleged horsethief himself and will have to face that charge in Washington. About the time young Comer made his charges against the two Cooks, Sheriff Taylor received a description of a horse which had been stolen at Prescott. Wash., a week ago yester day. When the Cooks were bound over to awa't the action of the grand jury, the boy was also bound over in lieu of 100 bonds so that he might be htlJ as a witness. Sheriff Taylor is a pretty good judge of faoes and, when he saw the boy, he immediately connected him up with the Frescott affair. An in vestigation proved his surmises to be correct but the boy refused to admit his guilt. However, when Sheriff Toner arrived yesterday morning and confronted the boy with a long string of evident:, he admitted the theft. He will be held here until the case in which he is a witness is disposed of when he will be turned over to Sheriff Toner. dent strolled to the church that he usually attends. The dors were clos ed. . Back thev walked to FT. street. Inst across I-a Favett annum frnm ' pleted and turned over, so that now white house( to the church where 1 residents are using water from their Mrs. Tat worships, fit was also clos ed and the trio finally turned in the direction of the Church of Epiphpany. Services were in progress. - BEATTIE SMILES AS TRIAL BEGINS (Continiued from page one.) killing of Mrs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., is to cavort on moving picture films, when she has testified against the husband of the dead woman. A representative of a moving pic ture concern today is in possession of own svstem. The work was none by Georee Joeger of Richmond, Mis souri. Hunters Return Homo. Clark Nelson and Robert Stott, who with a friend from Weston, have been on a hunting and fishing trip in the Toll Gate district for the past two weeks, arrived home Saturday after a most successful outing. They re port fish, game birds and "huckleber ries plentiful in the country they visited. to his fr.ends, he has grown more and more despondent as his task became harder and harder, although he at tempted to appear optimistic. Proud to a fault, he would not be the recip ient of charity, although the Masonic lodge, of which he was a member, of fered him aid several times. His wife remained loyal throughout and never once complained' of her hard lot. She kept all knowledge of their condition from her wealthy parents. but finally they heard of the straight ened circumstances of their daughter through the church and wrote to her offering her and her family a home with them. Their pride kept them from accepting and they struggled on. Finally the health of Mr. Reeves : began to break down. He began to grow extremely nervous and for days at a time was unfit for any work. Finally In desperation, his closest friends think and believing that he would bo removing an obstacle from the path of his family's happiness, he decided upon the tragic course which he carried out this morning. City la Shocked. The news of the suicide was receiv ed this morning by Pendleton with a profound shock. The dead man was well known to almost every business man and all remembered him as a most courteous and pleasant gentle man. He was a man of good educa tion and the few sermons which he preached here were generally pro nounced most excellent and were proof that the minister had been fit ted for larger fields. Body to Kentucky. While no funeral arrangements have been made, the widow has sig nified a desire that his body be ship ped to her old home in Kentucky. DREAM OF, LIFE CAME TRUE. 1111111 i .1 u ik i mm W T (( Saddles Go to Cheyenne. When J. R. Raley and T. D. Tay- a contract by which the 17 year old . ior, officers of the Roundup, left last girl-mother agrees to devote her time ; evenine for Cbevenne to attend the Hard to Find Church. Washington. Aug. 21. President Taft went looking for an open church yesterday and had a hard time find ing one. With Secretary of War Stlmson and Major Butt, the presi to moving picture plays. Just as soon as she is released fro mcustody. The company will also star Beulah In vaudeville. wild west show In that city, they had with them the two prize saddles which E. L. Power & Son and Ham ley & Co. are, awarding at the Round- I up this fall. Carl 'Power accompan- Wa tchlng Arbitration Treaties. j led Messrs. Raley and Taylor as cus Berlin, Aug. 21. Edwin T. Meade todian of the Power saddle. of Boston, secretary of the world's ; peace foundation, in an interview de- j p j Muir Has Fire. clared today that the people of Eu-j Last Wednesday night fire destroy- rope had been watching with expec-' ed a combined harvester, granary, tancy the negotiations surrounding1 shop, barn and other out buildings, al the arbitration treaties between the ; so several sets of harness, on the E. United States and Great Britain and ! j. nu'r place near Sparks station. The France, and that if they failed of rat-' origin of the fire is unknown and Mr. sfication "we shall almost be regard-' Muir had but partial Insurance on ed as having broken faith with civil-' the lost property. Nine head of ization." horses were saved by a very narrow margin as the fire had gained great headway before being discovered. This price on a 40c fourty cent quality is a strong number in this quit busi ness sale. AH sizes. For 60c and 7 5c kind. These are assorted in colors and in shades. You could not do better anywhere . BOSTON STORE Closing Out All's fair in love and war, most men would rather be in ihhn in a fight. but love Masquerades were England in 1340. I tfi x i i I fA'ltr rap?' fl Why Worry 1 h? I Sues to Collect Debt. I C. F. Hargrove has commenced 'suit against P." O. Martin for the col- I lection of a debt of J1S3.30 which ne alleges is due him for some wheat, ... . , D I, I .. V. a saddle ana some umi uitn sold the defendant between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1, 1911. He asks for judg- ment for that amount with sex per cent interest, cost and disbursements. j Attorney S. A. Newberry is his coun- , sel. Pardoned Slnyer in Vision Saw Him self Saved on Scaffold. Oklahoma City, Okla John Henry Prather, . a negro who was to have been hanged for the murder of W. H. Archie, and whose sentence was com muted by Governor Cruce thirty min utes before the hour set for the exe cution dreamed that he was to be re prieved. "Two or three times," said Porter, "I dreamed that a white man came upon the scnffold just after the rope had been put around my neck. I didn't know him, hut he- seemed to be the boss of Sheriff Spain. He told the sheriff to let me go. I dreamed, and Spain took the rope from around my neck. "There wasn't any penitentiary sen tence in the dream and I thought I went down the alley on n run. I wanted to get away from the jail and the scaffold as quickly as I could. Whenu I was safe away from It I wanted to go back to the place where I k'lled the white man. I always wanted to see if the blood was still on the sidewalk. Once before, two dnys after I killed' him T went back there and saw the blood on the Fide walk. I guess the dream meant that I wasn't going to be hanged." Auditorium was used. Judge H. D. Deemer of the Iowa Supreme Court gave the funeral oration. Judge Wal ter I. Smith of the Federal Circuit Court also spoke. Governor Carroll and staff and many prominent army and naval officers attended. Elks Get Handsome Souvenirs. Secretary Thos. Fitz Gerald of the local order of B. P. O. E. this morn- ling received a package of handsome souvenir pins from the lodge or At lantic City, where the 1911 national convention was held for distribution among the officers of the Pendleton herd. Those who secured the pins besides Secretary Fitz Gerald are D. B. Bailey, C. S Wheeler, Glen Sturdi- ivant. L. D. Idleman, J. H. parkes, Tom Smart and R. M. Mayberry. Kansas City. Mrs. J. L. Long, of Independence, Mo., mother of Miss Inez Long, who recently bit off her tongue in a motor car accident, has received on an average of fifty let ters and telegrams 'daily for the last three davs in response to her an nouncement that a reward would be paid for an inch of someone's tongue to be used to cure the girl. The writer of one letter said he thought $30,000 would be a reasonable price for an Inch of tongue. "A University of Pennsylvania grad uate," Mrs. Long said, "recommended his tongue very highly as first-class and in fine condition." One young man in the east said he desired t'1 come west to go Into business. Ho said he l.ad no money and was will ing to sell a part of his tunguo for the necessary capital. Miss Long still suffers, but her tongue is healing. Two Drown in Surf. .Long, Beach, Cal., Aug. 21. Charlea N. Nofke of San Francisco, 82 ' years of age, and Edward McMulIen, 30, of Tacoma, were drowned In the surf here yesterday when they were caught in a tide-rip near the jetties at the entrance to the Inner harbor. Thet ragedy was witnessed by Mc Mullen's brother, Frank, whom he came here to visit a fortnight ago. William Harhn of San Francisco, who was also caught in the tide rip was rescued. GERMS INFECT ICE CREAM. About Lime Robert E. In Trouble. Robert E. Lee, a colored man who works at the Spender Carter liv ery barn, found this afternoon that the possession of an Historic name is no safeguard from the law. Yester day he sold some whiskey to an In dian ivman named Maud, wh'.ch led to his arrest. He pleaded not guilty but the evidence was overwhelmingly aeainsf. him at his trial this afternoon find he was .convicted. Judge Fitz G-rald sentenced h!,r to pay a fine of $30 or spend 15 days In jail. He chose the latter alternative. 4,000.000 lii Spoonful Corts Chicago Denier . Fine of $1000. Chicago. Ice cream contain'ng 84.000,000 bacteria to the teaspoon ful Is being sold In Chicago, according to analyses of samples made by Dr. F. O. Tonncy, of the municipal labor atories, "Who testified In the munlcl bal court against a company charged with manufacturing quantities of the porduct, which Is Impure. A normal number of bacteria In lee cream Is 600.000 to the cubic centi meter, according to Doctor Tonney. Recently the Boston authorities con demned lee cream containing B0, 000, 000 bacteria to the teaspoonful as be ing injurious to health and unfit to use. Municipal Judge Going fined the Chicago ice cream manufacturer $100. The defendant gave notice of an ap peal to the.suprctne court. North Beach LA FOLLETTE TAKES UP OREGON PLAN (Continiued from page one.) yUEEXSRURY WANTS WORK. to A LOOK over our canned goods will chase away your trouble forever. All kinds of tempting meats and fish are carried by this store in targe variety. We sell quickly arid never have oldstock. Consequently you 33 - 8ure f tat fresh natural taste, combined with the appetixingl fa vor c.'iused by canning in every brand. Those meats are delicious as kept and sold by us. Canned and re tail', d under the Government Pure Food act. Choose a trial order from the following : Sliced Beef, glass Sliced Bacon, glass Potted Betf Chicken Loaf Lunch Tongue Lobsters Shrimp Weinerworst Gray Bros. Grocery Phone Main 28. Next to Poet Office "Quality Grocers." Six Drunks In' Court. The shutting down of many har- ders over the county Is causing a great many lanorer i'i cinne ihi.' pr.pjieton to c'-lr 'orate their lung per iod of abstinence and hard work. Th! is (he reason Judge Fitz Gerald uiirrrihfs for the. Increase In the numl'-r of drunks on record in the police court during the nflst few days Thi'- morriti-' there were six of these Briil-di MuriitU leaves England Itcim AiiierU'itii Clll.cii. i New York The Marquis of Quecnsbury arrived here from Lon don. 'With the announcement that he expects to become an American' citi zen, provided he can find something to do ht're. First of all, he Is going to look over the mining field, and If he finds conditions favorable, he will bring over his two ons and let the boys grow up with the country. The Marquis declares that he left Em-land 'without regret. "I am not of the idle rich," he said, "and even thaugh I were the possessor of an immense fortune, I should try to do something more than fill a suit of court clothes, and dwadle al," said Herbert Spencer, a wealthy oil operator here today. "I have been over the entire coal land zone In the Controller Bay dis trict," added Spencer," and was sur prised at its r'chness. For practical ly 100 miles south of the Cunningham claims, is one great coal bed. It is Inaccessible save my means of a rail way line from Controller Bay because the coast lino consists of qu.ck sand flats, upon which a man dare not walk. "I fully intended to develop mines In the district, but after going over it carefully I was convinced that only a syndicate with millions behind it, like the Morgan-Gugger.heim syndi cate, or the government, could han dle such a proposition, and I drew out. "Billions in wealth Is there, ready for the huhd of man. If the govern ment does not take hold of it, some syndicate of private individuals un doubtedly will secure a monopoly, as he who holds the transportation lines Into Controller Bay will likewise con trol the development of the coal fields and profit enormously." piu-;, DALE ROTHWELL Is the pleasure haunt In this part of the country this summer. Its devo tees rejoice to learn that they can now go and come In a regular schedule, In. dependent of tides. The popular ex cursion fcteamer, L J. POTTER leaves Portland, Ash Street dock, DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 8:S0 A. M. SATURDAYS ONLY. 1:W P. M. Also the steamer "JIASSAI.O" leav ing Portland daily, except Sunday, at 8:00 P. M. (Saturday at 10:00 P. M.) Reduced Fares Prevail From AH Points In tlio Northwest via the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company Ideal cottage and camp life, a mag nificent beach that is not surpassed anywhere, genial and boneflclal cli mate, and 'ull tho comforts of home without costing any more than if you. remained at home. Call on or write to any O.-W. It. 4. K. agent for complete Information; 'also for copy of our summer book "Outings In Oregon." Wm. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent, O.-W. R. & V. Co., Portland. Ore. nr John Doe and Richard Ho ', wh-i forfeited their ball of five i about In indolonce." ollars apiece. M. F. Williams, Jack Hill, and Ty-co-ne, who are serving out. their sentences In Jail, and Rich ard I'oe who paid a fine of a V. XOTIIER STEEIi TRUST UNDER CONSTRUCTION Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 21. Negoti ations are under way It is reported, to merge the Republican Iron and Steel company, the Bethlehem Steel company and the Lackawanna com pany into a new steel trust. It 1" said that Jacob Schwab and William Corey, former head of the United States Steel corporation, are backing the move. The new consolidation will compete with the United States steel corporation. Trouble at Hull. London, Aug. 21. Dockworkers at Hull are reported to be preparing to strike and a cruiser has been dis patched to guard the harbor. At Man chester additional troops were sent to prevent rioting among the carters and freight handlers who have not resumed work. Military uniforms were first worn In France In 1668. IIE.U'V TRAVEL TO COAST. Wcntcrn Kuilronds Exixft More Tlian 00,000 Pnssotigrrs Next Month. Chicago. Preparations are being made by Western railroads to handle an unprecedented movement of land- seekers to the Pacific Coast states this fall. Special colonists rates are In effect from September 16th to October 15th. These rates are usually made twice a year In the spring and In the fall and range from 133 from Chicago to $25 from 'the Mis souri river for one way trips. During the colonist movement in the spring nearly 90,000 people travel to the coast, according to estimates. Present prospects are that the movement this fall will even exceed that number. OPTOMETRIST, EYES EXAMINED, GLASSES FIT TED, LENSES DUPLICATED AND FRAMES REPAIRED. With W. E. HANSCOM THE JEWELER, PENDLETON. : Get There Quick : Pliont Red 3 361 for the AUTO CAB Twenty-five cent part of tho city. fares to any Special rates for out of town trips. REST SERVICE IN TOWN. Stand at 614 Main St : Pendleton Dye Works : : CUT PRICES . FOR AUG. J LADIES' SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $4.0 LADIES' SUIT3 PTtESSBD v. $1.0 MEN'S SUITS CLEANED. AND PRESSED $2.4 S MEWS SUITS PRESSED T6o Have your clothes cleaned at an up-to-date place and by up-to- date method. I Phone Main 16B. . .206 1-3 K. Alt. HONORS TO MAINE DEAD. Largo Attendance at the Funeral of LlcuU-nant Darwin Merrltt. Red Oak, Iowa. The funeral of Lieutenant Darwin Merrltt, whose body was recovered from the wreck of the battleship Maine In Havana Harbor, was held here. So great was the attendance that the Chautauqua THE CASH MARKET IS TnK BUSIEST PliACE I N TOWN WHY? Because people get better goods, better service and better weight than any other place In town and you'll find our prices cheaper. '"he CASH MARKET Cor. E. Court and Johnson Sts. Phone Main 101 "' ii " 1 in r'nr'i m"-' 'i y
