AGE TWO
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN. PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1021.
TWELVE PAGES
ur May Fabric Sale-Am Extraordinary. Money Saving Event
For Milady of the nerdie and for those intending lo have materials made up, liere you will find most coinplch; assortments of lliese fashionable materials
which are ino?t de:ired for the new Spring and Summer vear. Dainty organdies, hcvv voiles, practical ginghams, foundation silk, percales, muslins, levon
shire.ete. DURLG THE BALANCE OF THIS WEEK YOU WILL FIND SAVINGS THAT SHOULD BE OF INTEREST TO EVERY THRIFTY
HOUSEWIFE.
36 in. Percales. Special
Value, yd. 2h and29e
36 in. Percales of good qual
ity in light and dark patterns
in varied assortment.
Special Values, a Yard 24c
and 29c.
36 in. Engli?h Nainsook,
Special Value 49e
SO in. Nainsook, an excellent
quality for fine undergarments
and baby dresses, petticoats,
etc'
Special Value, a yard 49c
36 in. English Lonjreloth
bjMfeial Value 49c
" 36 in. English Longcloth of
fine soft finish, for night
gowns, teddy bears, corset coy
el's, chemise, etc.
Special Values, a yard 49c
OUR MAY SALE
SAVES MANY A
DOLLAR FOR
THRIFTY WOMEN.
Great big lots of merchan
dise in our Dry Goods depart
ment, will sell at much lower
prices during cur May Sale.
A good time to buy materi
als for a new silk .dress,, for
summer cotton frocks, for
boys' and girls' garments, un
derwear, etc.
40 in. Fancy Voiles,
Today T ie
10 in. voile of splendid qual
ity, patterns are of the new
floral and conventional de
signs in all the season's fash
ionable color combinations.
They are splendid values at
our regular prices at from 83c
to $1.15 yard.
Special, a yard 74c
45 in. Imported Organ
die, Special Value 1.50
45 in. imported organdie in all
the season's fashionable col
ors, permanent finish of ex
ceptional quality.
Special Value, a yard. . . $1.50
Beautiful Tissue Ging
ham?, today 71e and o9e
36 and 32 in. wide, hand
some patterns in plaids and
stripes, some have silk over
plaids. They wear well and
washes well, and how cool and
lovely they are for the hot
summer days.
Special, yd 74c and S9c
32 in. Dress Gingham,
Today 24c
32 in. Dress Gingham of
good quality, in a large assort
ment of plaids, checks and
plain colors.
Special, a yard 21c
32 in. Zephyr Gingham.
Today 29c
32 in. Gingham of excellent
quality, in a good assortment
of plaids, checks, stripes and
piain colors.
Special, a yard 29c
40 in. Fancy Voile,
Today 49e
40 in. wide, and vou will be
more than pleased with the as
sortment of patterns we have
to offer you. They are splen
did values at our regular
prices of Goc and ioc yard.
Special, a yard
49c
27 in. Dresfe Gingham,
Today 19c
27 in. Red Seal, Toile Du
Nord and Lancaster quality
Gingham, in a good assort
ment of patterns and colors to
choose from.
Special, a yard 19c
32 in. French Gingham,
Today 71c
32 in. French gingham of
beautiful quality and such
lovely patterns in plaids,
checks, stripes and in plain
colors.
Special, a yard
74c
OmB All CUot Pi-nU CU 2.
Strawberries, fresh, box 25c
Cabbage, the pound 7c
Spinach, 4 pounds 25c
Tomatoes, Fresh, the pound 25c
Green Onions, the bunch 5c
Radishes, the bunch 5c
Asparagus, fresh, 2 lbs 25c
Rhubarb, 4 pounds 25c
Onions, dry white, pound 7c
Lettuce, Head, each 15c
Peppers, green, the pound 75c
Turnips, bunch 12' c
FRUITS
Oranges, Bananas, Strawberries, Pineapples
and Grape Fruit '
Kleen 3Iaid Bread. Fresh Jersey Milk
Large
Assortment
Silk Crepe de Chine
81.49
Plain Colored Tafft
la Silk, van! 82.19
Visit the Merchants' and Man
ufacturers' Carnival May 26-27
A big assortment of su
perior quality crisp silk
taffeta. A weave with a
very lustrous finish,
shown in navy blue, brown
and a full assortment of
all the popular colors. An
unusual quality at our reg
ular price at $2.75 yard.
1
Very Special, now $2.19
-7 i . TiT T
lereoDies Warenous
3523 WHERE IT PAYS TO TRADE
For spring and summer
dresses and blouses here
are r.ew crepe de chines at
real money saving prices.
Shown in black, ivory, na
vy blue, Copenhagen,
brown, rose, peach, maize,
apricot, pink, flesh, etc.;
40 in. wide and a splendid
quality at our regular low
price at 1-75.
Very Special, now $1.49
Our Famous Canton
Crepe Silk, yd. 33.9ft
Another high grade silk
value of extra weight, 40
inches in width. Shown in
all the leading colors for
spring and summer; very
fashionable for dresses,
suits and separate skirts.
You can't beat it any
where at our regular price
at $3.00 yard.
Very Special now yd. $3.98
EXCEPTIONAL STYLES IN SUM
MEK SKIRTS.
What to wear with pretty waists is no puzzle
for you when you see these pretty skirts unless
our varied collection of delightful models will
make you hesitate as to which particular one or
two you want but a little thing like that is an ad
vantage for you can get a becoming skirt for every
summertime purpose.
This will unquestionably be a big season for
skirts first because of their unlimited utility and
second because of their beauty and variety of col
or and style. It is impossible to describe in detail
each model so we ask you to visit the store to see
them.
The prices will please vou.
$9.73 to $28.73.
They range from
Visit the Merchants' and Man
ufacturers' Carnival May 26-27
if m
TN EARLY DAYS UMATILLA
CAUSE MEXICAN BATTLE
MEXICO OITV, May 13. P.l-i
Fiftj- death." are reported from relig
ious and political fighting in Jlorclia. j
" the capital of Michoacan. The fight-
lng began when a Catholic demonnra- :
tlon asaimd. socialistic propaganda ran :
fired upon by socialist sympathizers 1
and a detachment of police, said to
have included Chief Vincente Vnyt. !
Many were wounded. ,
WAS TRADING CENTER FOR
NORTHWEST MINING CAMPS
A California bank has installed a
devii e w hich it is believed will protect
It vault from the niotft skilled of pafe ,
crackers. Hug butties of mustard j
pas htive been placed inside the heavy i
tel door and so arranged that the
sllfhlest jar will br-ak them, allow
ing the deadly centum to e'fli
Tins is a rheumatism of the muscles I
of the buck. It dunes uii suddenly and ;
is unite painful. Kvery movement ug-
sravate the disease. (Jo to bed, keep ;
. quiet and have Chamberlain's ljni- ,
meat applied and a quick recovery :
. may be expected. Mrs. I". J- Lann, ,
UlocAport. N. T.. writes: "1 can hon-
wtly say that Chamberlain's Liniment
cured me of lumbago a, year ago lut-t
summer. Whtu 1 begun uidng it. I ,
was flat on nsy back in bed and could ;
I ot turn to the left ur right. I had a j
bottle of Chamberlain's Uniineiit in ,
the house ttud this w;;s applied to my 1
t'uek. It promptly dio.a auy the
puing and aches.''
iMMlpilljE I'Ollgll
This Is a very dangerous dibia-e,
juj'ticuhii ly to child i-oti under five
fears of as. but when no paregoric,
codeine or other opiate i. K? is eas
ily cured by gitw Chamberlain'
Cough llcllicdy. Moid people believe
that It must run its cour.-e. not know
ing that the time Is very much short
ened, and that three is little darker
llom the disease when this lemedy Is
liKen. Jl lias been used in many epi
demics uf whooping vouch, with pron
ounced success. It Is safe and pleas
ant lu take.
l.'ll uf (uiisiiiIUiii
1'ei hsps Hie most serious of the dis
aes caueed I!)' colistlputlon is flppen.
dicltiK. If you would aviod this dan
aoreus disease., keep your bowels rogu
lr. Kor this purpose Chatiibri lain
'aulels are excellent, easy to tske and
mild and gentle In effect.
IwtmU-rlalM'a Talitii-. ni"w Mild and
t.entle In 1-Jfe.t
The Uxatix effect uf Chamberlain's
Tablet is so mild and gentle that oil
VU l4Jly JtaUia tljlt H iias t'cu
c r, .vr . - - k
, . v . "," ' - " )
; - . . j ..
i "' . :a ji, -
E . , - .. . v ' " 'iV ' ' ' '1
- ' ' i
1 ' 1 ' .. ' fc " ' " f
' ' 1 ' - -, " ' ' ,
2 , f - - v , . i
i w 3
MAJOR LEE f.'OORHOUSE
liV JlAJui; I.KK M'"'l'.H'i'HR
In the fall f 14I, bef';r the coun
ty hid iieeti created and when a f v
runihiis tind stocKno 11 ao;t thr-
K tre
i'e at
S Me
hi no
streams
t'nuailla Cil
mind or a Mr.
then working ft
M'aMuia and iseatiHi
the fonvictiun that
would foun sjirini! 11
Itondr valley, which 1
il
l"'p'
lation,
i-oe-.-lied in the
J. i-i. lie. lie w.,
ferwardlritr film at
llllpl'es
a pie:
Willi
.Uld be
from some poinl further
river. In low water bout
nsiend the Wallula with f'
a uhi,
it trade
ilaiel
uppln (1
wn tlie
uld not
f arsoes
was to s'arl a landing
pui;it I" low the ob-
il,- l.-:-e of V.il il-'atlon
I:aiie a ti i xaminalion ami
m,h,I :l'ollt miles below
if (he rma'ill l iver. He
lent to I'ertblU'l and funned a
.sht. -..-Il h II. H ,11111. M the
i uT H i-i(.',ilion, In March, 1862,
a mi- up the river wl'h a stuck
la
nth
becaui-e ot the L'manJLi rapida. ai.d
Mr
1 pi.-.ef.
! tr'u
In
; H-ee(,
; the m
1 tile,,
palT.f
Openii
1 they .
'of pnon. and took possession of the
spot. A town was hud out. ami In view
of the expected iradine point, was
named "lira ml lionde limliuii."
Qu:l.. a trade at once sprang up
v. uh the new oeltlcrs in Grand Koiide
alley and people along the Umatilla,
as well as a law retail trade with
emigrants mid travellers following the
river road from Hie Dalles to Walla
Walla. It was made 11 regular landing
place fur boats plying on the Colum
bia river. They lived and did busi
ness at first in tents, but houses were
soon erected from loxs brought down
from the L'matilla river, which gave
the town a mure stable appearance. A
hotel busings was among the pioneer j
Industries of the place, a canvas 1
1 Plead on the ground serving the pur- j
pose uf a table, and one dollar being I
charged fur meals cooked on a lug j
fire. Discovery of the Oranit creek
mines that s'ininicr added a n w
source of trade, and by fall they had
a paying anil firmly established husi-
ness. The Powder river and Hulse I
mines opening that year, resulted in
"unite a nnnihcr uf people deciding to 1
, fulluw Mr. Kane's example and start in
! business at some convenient point on
' the Columbia fur supplying that trade, j
They made preparations as soon as:
; gumlx i-oul, 1 lie shiped up the river In j
the spring. j
(iiaiul lionde l.nndiiig Sees lis Finish j
I'n the M hot August. 1 Sti2. Jesse H.
1. urchin made application to the Cov
en, or to pre-empt about K") acres of
I land Just aouve the mouth of the
j I'matiHa river, being the tuwnsite of
I I'matiHa City, lie offered to sell this
! t., Ur K'.,n f,,r tfillll fill lli-bitf- :i I tile
moiiLli uf Hie river it looked like a I
mure favurable lucation than Crand
lionde Landing, and would have been
so were It not that the rapids Interfer
ed with navigation between the 1iv
points. A steamboat eulild take a full
cargo tu Ci-aiid llunde Lauding in low
wuli r, but could only take a half loud
over the rapids. Mr. Kane rejected
the offer.
Navigation op' ii"d early in the
I spring uf st:t, and w-ith It came a man
j named Spencer with a stuek of guuds.
1 who wanted to obtain Mr. Kane's store
! boas,, nnd go iiiio business there, this
: he could nut uluain. and he decided tu
; tart an o;ipusition town at I.urchin'-i
place, lie found an triply log cabin, 1
I one that hail been built by men eatch
' ing drift wood. This he 111 cuptcd fur a
i:tuic, and laid out a tuwn which he
named Columbia, but which was soon
; known and called l'matilla l-nridlng.
1 It was the season of high v.'aler then,
land people not as familiar with steam
i boating as was Mr. Kane thought
i nothing uf the rapids below the town
' fleceived by the high water, other par
ties loukini: for a good location pass
id liiand llon.le landing anil selected
! I he new place. The people were like
iihi-ep: the tide having set In followed
(with a rush, and In a week n town
'sprang up at I'matiHa li-iudiug such
! as its founders never dreamed of. Mr.
i Katio cured more for tiis business thai
i he did for a lownsitc, and reading tin
handwriting on the wall, abandoned
the old location and moled to the new.
where he opened and conducted for
several years the largest business
house at that place.
I'matiHa, landing in one year be
came a worthy rival of Walla Walla.
A line of stages was established be
tween this point and Powder river and
Uoise, teams and pack animals lined
(he load tu these places. A perfcet
stream of travelers going and coming
passed between l'matilla and the
mines. Thui'sands of people and mil
lions of pounds of freight paid tribute
to ttits new city on the sands. '1 ho
jaiv winds of the Columbia, whistled
around rude frame and canvas struc
tures that formed the city, but within
those walls were stored goods uf eimr
moiis value, while freight In great
.iaotil:es was piled up on the river
bank.
l-'alooiis and gambling houses with
the throngs which frequented them,
formed a large portion of the bulk uf
the population, but not of the business.
They were as adjunct. 111 those duv.l
cen.videi , ,i a necessary one, and only
I'uurisln d because of the prospri-l tv ui
the city In its more substantial lines of
Itade. The loneliest and most des
borate characters in tile mines made
this their temporary home at times,
end quarrels were the consequence and
a "man for breakfast" was frequent.
It was the repetition of the scenes of
'cvery live camp'' since the days of
III In. California. No one expected
anything else, and, in fact, the saloons
were generally considered as a stand
ard by which to Judge the prosperity
of a town. It Is almost impossible to
realize the umount of business trans
acted in that city, built on the drifting
sands of the Columbia. There were six
stores that sold nil average of JJO'i,
1100 each per annum. In 1SUII, the
firm of I'Yench & fiiiman alone sold
$."0n,0"i worth of merchandise, chiefly
gruceries both wet and dry. Itesidos
these there were Ihree ur fuur small
trading stands, a drug store, three ho
tels, twenty two saloons, two dance
hmises. two feed stables, two barber
shops, tivo blacksmith shops, nnd a
number of other establishments.
During the yearn uf 1t5l-!i and fi
the regular population was iibout l.Vui
while the Homing and tranrlent ele
ment numbered neurly as many more.
The county was organized before the
town sprang up, and It therefore was
not until March lsiij that l'matilla
secured the county seat. It was then
the only regular town within Its lim
its. Py an act of October :'l. liiiM.
l'matilla City was incorporated, with
a mayor, five aldermen, recorder, mar
ihall nnd treasurer. A year later the
people decided that the burden of sup
porting a municipal government was
unnecessary, and the charter neus re
pealed by Act of December 18, ISO"., lo
take effect June f, ism;. George. Coo
was the first mayor and Daniel French
second. Judge I I.. McArthur served
as recorder both years. In 1X1)5 and
IXH6 Idaho mines began to be supplied
from .San Francisco by way of Chico
and Honey l,ike Valley, drawing
largely from the trade of l'matilla.
From that tune on the town entered
on the down grade. In 1S6.1 the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad was completed In
front Nevada, and the hulk of Idaho
Itade followed it. This was a Waterloo
to l'matilla, and business men began
to leave, but not without taking a well
filled purse as a result of their few
years residence here. It was now time
to commence kicking the dead lion.
This was done by taking away the
county scat In the spring of 1S6H.
Cradually the town dwindled in trade
and population until tbe building of
the railroad to Pendleton In lxs; took
the last forwarding business away.
r trust the above somewhat lengthy
sketch will please nii. 1 unc; lived In
l'matilla, from the years iSTfi to lsTS.
I was In charge of the forwarding
business of John It. Foster & -o., and
even at that late date the two for
warding nnd general merchandlso
firms, John P.. Foster & Co., nnd J. II.
Koontz, did an enormous business, but
had to discontinue when the It. It. wnu
completed to Pendleton.
Very sincerely,
LKI-: MOOItHOL'SK.
Pcdbiigs are easily gotten rid of,
says a recent publication of the l 8.
Public Health Service, by exposing
them to cMiemcs of tctnperatui e.
Cold us low us 17 F. above zero or as
high us 100 F, above, ir continued for
(wo or three da.vs, will destroy them.
The cold might be applied in the
north, for Instance In country houses
whose owners leave them unoccupied
during the winter, or In houses that
can be evacuated fur 11 few days. Tim
Keivico offers no suggestion as to the
heat end of the. problem, hut a roar.
Ing furnace for two or three August
days might s,.,vi if the owners
could camp out fur the Interval.
":- , 1 ri i-jrir- -"V
For indigestion if
Conilinntion, Sick Headache, Bilioui
neu. Bloating, Sour Stomach, Gm on
the Stomach, Bad Breath you will find
nothing better than ibtt wbolciome
phyic
FOLEY CATHARTIC JABLETI
Never dicuppoint. Take one tonight
end feci better in the morning.
Cf(c Jr-nner. Annnf, Tc 'FrtiT
('.Hthmtttr. 'lablcti hive prnvtn to be lh hnt
Jaiative I twrt h-ivc taken nd I rrcofamend '
ibtai tut cooiUpatiwQ red MUoumim."
.'iiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iitiiiinn
ANNOUNCEMENT !
Of Closing Hours
Our place of business will close at 2 p. m. on Sundays. 5
Hours will be fromG a. m. until 2 p. m. 5
1 White's Doughnut Lunch I
123 Wret Alta
iilUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinitlllllllMIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlll
l