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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1907)
y •Il The O b se r v e r . EDISON IN TROUBLE. ■ O That TbouiMM A ., Edison, the Wizard of Menlo' Park, is facing oo oonteuipt proceedings in one federal MORO. OREGON. court and a suit involving millions in another, which may sweep away D. C .I reland a S on .......... E ditor « his entire fortuue, became publioly C. L. I reland , M anager . known on the 10th inst In one suit, called before ifie U.8.Circuit court Send for advertising ratee in Jersey city October 9th, the mi norilv stockholders of the New Eng FRIDAY......................Oct. 18, 1U07 land Phonograph Company, which was organized in 1888 to sell Edison T e Partrwn« a n d C a rra a R a n B a a ta . phonographs, makes the absurd Don't tend us tor free publication an y statement that it paid Mr. Edison th in g of an advertising character. $225,000 for the exclusive right to A ll local» w ill be run till ordered out, sell his phouogrspbs in the New unless otherwise specified. w England states,and that Mr. Edison Don’t ask us to send you names and ad- Jr ess of correspondents. T h at Is a private obtained control of the board of matter between them and us. directors, “snd packed it with his Copy for ads, change*, etc . must be In own employes;” that no profits ever the office before 2 oTclock p. m. Wednes- were paid, and that the Edison lay to Insure proper care and attention. D o n ’t send us articles on politics, tern- board actually voted to discontinue » perancc or religion. Discussion of such a suit brought in the name of the topics only leads to violent and abusive cotni>an.v for an accounting. Mr. language In the end. Avoid personalities. Com plim ents deli Edison was not permitted by the cately given are alwaya acceptable, but court to make auy statement in re even they must not be overdone, as the buttal. He has been quite too charge of ln dncerlty is apt to follow a busy a man these past 20 years to shower o f pretty nothings spread broad cast batch up pcbemes, or take part in Before coming to the city to trade read any such plans of shemera, rest as ers are requested to examine Th e Obsei ver 1 advertising columns. Its the active, wide sured of that; and will be able to awake business man who advertises, con show clean hands, as against plot sequently he Is the most accomm.xlating, sells the cheapest, and deals the most lib ters for any portion of emoluments erally in every way - arising from his discoveries, which The Observer has been established have made wealthy thousands of nearly 21 years, and It has some subscri while he toiled in his den. bers who have received It regular! v for tuen, ■ w rw C»»y r«K'> OFFICIAL FAPEM OF «HERMAN more than h alf a »core of years Many o f these object to having the Old Reliable discontinued at the lim e ol expiration ol th eir subscriptions, and lor their benefit, as for other reasons, we.discontinue subscrip tions only when notified to do so, except bv agreement made at the time the ac count 1» opened, when It is noted upon the calendar to be diacontlnued promptly at the time specified. A ll persons paying in advarce at the time o f subscribing, w ill have the benefit o f the $2 50 rate for two years, or the $5 00 rate lor five years. W e send Th e Observer to any responsible per son who orders it, though they may not send the money with the order, with the understanding that they are to pay 12*a cents per month for It, until such tim e as they may wish to take advantage of the above litieral discounts. From this date we are prepared to discoui t rates to all leading Weeklies and Magaxlnes published in the United States, to any prepaid reader ol Th e Old Reliable Observer. Come with the money— as that Is tndispensibie. At the present rate of progress the American oration will soon be a lap ahead of the English drnm liest in circling the world. While there, is an acknowledged spread of prohibition sentiment throughout the country prohibition ists are, perhaps too modest, to claim much credit for it. May lie it was beesnse he did not want Secretary Taft to suffer as a presidential candidate that Presi dent Roosevelt sutwstituted extra dry Mumm for cocktails at 8t. Louis. 8ecretary Taft is the first war minister to go around the world and talk jieace. The Hague confer ence may accomplish nothing, but the Taft mission is doing, fairly well. Senator Fulton elicited a great deal of applause in La Grande on the occasion of his recent address there, notably when he declared that state sovereignty had been bur ied half a century ago, and that state lines should be obliterated in tbe control of commercial corpora tions of the country, iu order to prevent them from becoming op pressive. Texas is mu up to high notch as an anti-railroad state. Railroads trying very hard to ‘keep in touch’ with inimical legislation of various states, but tlieir action is sometimes checkmated. Now it is the Texas railroad commission, bringing 14 suits against as many railroads for failure to keep their books as the commission had instructed them to do. $70,000 in penalties is asked for. This is an indignity equal to the assessment of $1,659,000 annu ally against 18 of the leading news pajiers of N-Y-City, by the stereo- iyi>ers, without any law to justify the graft. „ People like to rash to their death across the Atlantic, and after they get across too, as well United States. In connection with the Lusitania’s ocean speed records the new Killarney express trains of the Great Western Railway, which tnnke the 262 miles Itetween Pad diugton staiion and Fishguard har bor in five hours without a stop, add a new plume to British speed records on land. This long distance run is equivalent to New York and B.xton and 25 miles beyond without a stop. _ Best is defios d as a change of oc cupation. Bat this is not the defi nition of rest that represented the Since it is made known what the side of the beats as they galloped Standard Oil Company has been through the Louiaiana cane brakes earning, that $‘29,240,000 flue does last week. not look very big. Vancouver talks of pending the Swollen wealth is liecoming so Asiatic immigrants to Ottawa, and unpopular that o n e is almost afraid tbe Canadian capital might foiward to save up money for Christmas. them to Downing street, London. An exhibit on the spot is often a convincing argument. If a single reader of Tbe Observ er has failed to write letters to some friend, acquaintance, relative, or other person who may bebenefitted by coming to Oregon, do so today. Colonist rates close October 31st, a word to tbe wise is sufficient. A waterway seven feet deep will shortly be opened from Hennepin, on the Illinois river, to Rock Island on the Mississippi,' constructed by the United States government at a cost of $7,500,000. Uncle Sam is toning up for tbe grand overture. After considerable effort someone claims to have made the discovery that George Waahington told one lie, at least But it was told to tbe — tr— to whom nearly ever) body lies, more or lees. Although it proves that George dodged bis taxes it eau baldly be expected that the millions of modern tax dodgers dare come ont and proudly admit that they got the idea from the fa ther of his country. INTERCOLLEGIATE ‘ATHLETICS.1 w “ We would rather have interool- legiate athletics, says the captain of the Swarthmore loot ball team, than all the money left by Miss Jeauee, or even all the money in Wall street.” Beautiful sight wheu the young are faithful to their ideals! But do you suppose that that young man Is a serious-minded student of Swarthmoret We do not; he talks more like a student outlaw, hazing assailant who would destroy his own class. Swarthmore enjoys at pres ent an endowment of $900,000. An addition of 13,000,000 (uot $1,000,- 000 as at first reported), to its pro ductive funds, would place it at once on the financial standing of Brown, Prinoeton, the Northwest ern University and the University of California, and within $1,000,- 000 of the University of Pennsyl vanis. As to the “sacrifices” which must l»e made, abandonment of in teroollegiate atl letics, so called; to secure the $3,000,000 bequest of Miss Jeauee, their weight depends on the point of view. The testator cannot be assumed to have acted ou prejudice. She has expressed con victions. And ou the subject of intercollegiate “athletics” various eminent educators, including the revered head of Harvard, have ideas which are not all enthusiasm. Tbe proposition recently advanc’ ed by State Superintendent Acker man ; that some day there would be county school boards in Oregon in stead of local district boards, as at present, appears to meet the appro val of the reading public. It will be remembered that The Observer gave the substance of the plan at the time, showing that the county school superintendent would be the school administrator, * and that would give the whole county unifor mity io courses of study,in employ ment of teachers, const ruction and repair of school houses, as the conn ty board would administer school affairs as the commissioners court administer county affaire, and get far better results. Prof. Bryant has in a measure anticipated the pro posed law by rendering local dis tricts substantial assistance notably in the betterment of school houses. There are many school houses that are neither sanitary nor comforta bly. ami Mr. Bryant is showing by the work now in progress at Klon dike, that every school district in Sherman county may possess itself of a modern and model school build ing, if the people say so. O u r e n t ir e lin e o l B r id g e HE trouble with our judicial system is that it is inverted, like a house standing upon its roof. The work which is the most important, which requires the greatest learning, which, like n foundation, should be broad, deep and solid and bear the weight of the superstructure, comes at the end of a litigation IN STEAD OF AT TILE BEGINNINGS . The most difficult and most important propositions in a cause, instead of being solved at the threshold and thus fixing once and for all the condition of affairs, are left in nbevsnec to be determined after years of extensive A N D E X PE N SIV E triJs, ii.v Iviuj attendance of numerous witnesses and the writing of thousands of pages of testimony, records and pleadings, making it a burden to all the participants snd a still greater burden to tho taxpayers. The present course of litigation often runs thus: A cause is heard in the first court, requiring perhaps weeks or months. The judgment is np|>calcd from, and the appellate court finds a legal proposition has been erroneously viewed BY TH E TR IA L COURT. So the caso is reversed. After yoars it is again tried and again appealed to tho appellate court, where error again may be found, and once more it is sent back..: It again is tried and goes again to the appellate court, .which, we may assume, then approves of the judgment, whereupon the defeated party takes the case to the supreme court, which then may hold that there has been error IN BOTH OF TH E LOWER COURTS and sends the case back again to the beginning. A new trial is needed, and everything must grind slowly through once rtiore. Often ten snd at times fifteen or more years pass before the litigation ends. There is not a case, civil or criminal, dependent upon what the pro fessional man calls “questions of law” in which such questions do not stand out clearly AT TH E B E G IN N IN G of the case, and such questions should be solved in advance of the trial. Vice President Fairbanks, as a possible candidate for presidential honors, was the innocent victim of a cocktail, and now 8 matnr Knox, another Presidential candidate, is denounced ns the “ grea'oat friend and supporter of Mormonism iu public life.’’ It is surprising how T H IS W O U L D T H I F O U N D A T IO N OF T H 1 S U B S E Q U E N T the nation manages to esca|>e des T R IA L A ND W O U L D R E M A IN U N S H A K E N . SO T H A T IN A L L F R O B - truction when such virions men are A E IL IT Y — IN D E E D , W E M A Y SAY IN V A R IA B L Y —T H E R E S U L T menu raged to aspire to the presi W O U L D F IN D T H E A P F R O V A L O F y T H l R E V IE W IN G COURTS» dency. And look at the picture of Roosevelt, in tbe hands of the Phi K ? fSuhscribeJor The Observer. Best Weekly published listioes with th a e Memphis wine in the Inland Empire. Everyone reads i t bibbtoiB. Educate« for success in a «hort |im e and at «m all expen««, and «end« each stu * dent to a position a« aoou a« com petent. Q u a lity la our m otto, and rep u tatio n lot thorough w o rk brings ua over 100 calls per m onth fo r office h e lp . In d iv id u a l in . «traction insures rapid progress. W e teach th e loose le a f, th e card in d e x , th e voucher and oth er m odem m ethod« o f lo o k keeping. C h a rtier is o u r «horthand ; easy, ra p id , leg ib le . B eautiful catalogue, business forma and penm anship f r e e - w rit« today. References: an y m erchant, an y b a n k , an y newspaper in P ortland. Your choice of several makes of Sewing Machines, all drop heads for $18 to -$25. sJT . Implements -A Dealer in Wagons,-Plows, Drills, Buggies, Oils of all sorts. Agency fo r Best H arvester and Hodge H eader Extras. Schandoney P atent D ra ft H itch E qualizer fo r any com bine. Rubber T ir e Buggies former price $110 to 125 for $75 to 95 Top Buggies, your choice $65 to zoo; former price was a lot more Hacks, former price up to $140, now from $50 to 105; including a brand new H e n n y hack for $105 A Canopy Top. Side L ig h t. Rubber T ire Surry form erly priced at $175 now for only $105 These Prices Can’t be Beat. Wasco Implement House, M c C o y - A t w o o d C o ., W a s c o M H» Ì* * Chas. Solliher. Proprietor. wtd ! h fa» -b»faw ] •« • 1. 1. Bsrtsn h The old adage, “ put a fool on a horse and he will go foil gallop,” has been changed, an automobile for the t horse. EXtras and of all kinds. Hacks and Buggies offered at Cost, Office Supplies. THE L E A D IN G B U S IN E S S COLLECE X U U B U lL D I N q , P O R T L A N D , O R E G O N , Banlqiw jj|¡ f a ß ßfliip» THE B EST IS N O N E TO O GOOD FOR YOU Our» I» ooe of the Ion lar<c«t hutlne»» colleir»» Io the United Ht»lee Rnrollm rnt p a.t year, 4tJ pupil». Kquipuient, 118,000. Graduate« are all em ployed. M o r o a n d G ra w « V a l l e y . Nicely embossed up to date hand colored Thanksgiving Postal Cards, Receives Deposits, Sell exohange, six designs, for sale atThe Observer and do a General Banking business. Book Store. Send to your friends. I’ tarrd 101 pupil» Into luvratr— p m illo n . during pa.t year. 11. W . B R U N R K . P re.. W ill place you wHen <o»ipetent SEWD POR C A T A L U O O B I. M W ALEER, Pria N.P. Hansen, Manager at Moro ïà© Letal Oliveta* T he D alles I ron W orks v » bot *1 A B*aMu« to»«»»Ot«d; I mmss ms 4 s . »•re tai eredita fia n tad; tu ri «a I aMMsaS sab)Mt ta < >n u » a «aparta. M o n k la n d P re s b y te r ia n C R w ro h . J . B. K irk, P ro p rie to r. Regular Becvice at the usual hour next Sunday. Everyone welcome. *i*T*T*r ris in g ly C larke' a W n e d c c a o rry m p le a te s u rp stock of M e r e M . E . C huroh supplies. Regular services every Sunday, at 11 a m. Rev. Perry Chandler, Pastor. Special attention given to farm machine repairing - Quick and reliable work guaranteed. Price« always reasonable; phone at shop and house large office t ALAMO Practical Watchmaker In k s fo r Copying, A g e n t fo r th e and Jcwalar. T y p e w r itin g , and -v- Write for terms and prices. A guaranteed engine, uses any kind of vapor fuel Sunday School at 10 o’clock a m. P H Buxton, 8upt. U V - E n g in e % s and F ilin g Cases. OREGON to y G asoline L e tte r and B ill Files, L oo k h ere fo r th e n e x t . - Company _ B o o k-keep in g . y Ladies’ Aid Society, every Thurs Particular Attention Given to day, at 2 o’clock p m . Mrs C O Huis, President. Optical W ork ferenoen^Petober 20th. By A N D R E W J. M l RAC H U Sociologist. 35 A few pieces of Furniture, all w e have, w ill be closed out at half the price, includes W ooden and Iron Beds, Dressers, Commodes, Chiffoneers, etc; a $33 folding bed complete w ith mattrass for only $17.50 H i « An Open Columbia river conven tion at the Dalles last week, joined the concentrated force of good workers in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. With 32% feet of water at high tide on the bar below A sto ria, congress can no longer consis tently refuse the continuing con tract for this improvement from the dalles to the British Colombia line, and from Pasco to Old Fort Boise on the 8uske river. T E N T H A N D M O R R IS O N S T R E E T S , P O R T L A N D , O R E G O N A . P. A R M S T R O N G , L L . B.. P rincipal . B e a c h , U n iv e r s a l a n d H o u s e h o l d r a n g e s , w i t h r e s e r v o ir , y o u r c h o ic e f o r $ The decision of the Illinois 8u m s DALLES, S p a u ld in g and R u tle d g e . preiue court invalidating the state primary law adopted at the last Rev Perry Chandler will hold the session of the assembly, makes cer tain its abandonment. The law is M.E.Church Quarterly Meeting, at iu some respects a pattern of the Spalding Chapel, Saturday evening October 19th, and preach in the Oregon urinal. O u r V e r y T o p sy T u r v y J u d i c ia l P r o c e d u r e . Bt Offering Bood Value at a Peach of a Price HO LM ES' B U S IN E S S ^COLLEGE > th in g you are n eeding. Observer > Book % Store, Moro, Oregon. REED HULSE Take pleasure in annoonoing that Proprietor of they nave purchased the Grants’ M o r a B a p tis t Churwh Ferry, and will operate the ferry between Cliffs, Washington, end Regular prayer meeting Wednes Rufus, Oregon. They solioit the day afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Every patronage of the public snd will do body invited. all they possibly can in giving Drsying of all Kinds. quick and prompt servios. M o r o P rw a b y to rla n C h u rw h . C u re s F ebby C ompany , Trunks and Grips Hauled to and 275] J. M. Charters • F* \ . from all trains Services in Moro Presbyterian church next Sunday, Morning and evening. CITY DRAY NO. 2 th FT i l i t t i n ' IM s Mid-week prayer meeting Wedn Are guaranteed. You can bave esday evening at 8.00. them by writing, or calling at my residence at Demoss springs, Sher You will be welcome at any or man oounty, Oregon. all of these services. 246] A lex . H untbb , Agent “J was glad when they said unto me, “I^et us go up to the House of the Lord.” A. J. A dams , Pastor. Instrumental and Vocal George G/DeMoss is now at haas and will teach Voios Culture, Vto- liocsl o, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin. Cornet Band a specialty. Call or address, G eorge G. D e M oss , 275] DeMoss Springs, O r Q u ic k Hal«*« and Knott I P rofit«. « H ì iì i m H C 1] LaOrande, Or Prof. Henry 8. DeMoss will Harleigh Glass, Proprietor. teach Music at DeMoss Springs, sod is prepared to visit other localities h Every kind of rig to order, snd give'M usical Institutes. He will teach Harmony, Piano sod and all orders prompt and satis Organ, but Violin in his specialty. factory at reasonable prices. Farmer« teams lad as wall as Call nr address, they are led at homa, If not bettor. H enry 8 . D e M oss , Telephone at env evpanes. 276] DeMoss Springs, Or 'm » m » m m i n > »m i raawwaaassssa L iv e and L e t L iv e . c | M oros B arber S hop - Oregon. _ 1 P o r c e la in B a th Tubs. Everything first Class and Up to data. S Agent for the Best Steam Laundry Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office E D G A R L E W IS , P r o p r ie to r . MORO - - OREGON. vr? 9 latches Repairing, etc. Send your watches, jewelry, etc., needing repairs, to me, and I will guarantee perfect satisfaction. Wm Rudolf is my agent in Moro, at whose plaoe of business any article may be left to ha forwarded, and who will return ths same to you in od shape. O. M. H eaoock , W v » f i i Ty C a ll an d E x a m in e M y Ktock of F U R N IT U R E and H ID E I . IN EH before b u y in g O. W. 4X TELL M oro Office at Furniture Store. F. R. A X T E L L , M O R O , O R My M o tto Is In consequence of ill health I am obliged to offer for sale or trade my lumber and wood business in Kent. Will trade for stock or a farm. For particulars address J. H. B ottemiller , 267] -Kent. Or Fballaint liwry C o. Harmony, Piano, Orgu, Ete V un , Bnpi. ’ r ' UNDERTAKING for Sale or Rent. For Sale. 80 acres, about 15 suitable for Alfalfa or fruit trees, quite a variety of choice trees now in bearing. Can be irrigated with water from springs. 65 scree of best wheat land in Sherman oounty Located on tbe railway 2$ miles north of Moro, % mile south of De Moes elation. Price $30 per a c r e - dirt cheap. For particulars write to J. M. D e M oss , 275] DeMoee Springe, Or Both in Workmanship and Price AND Any person or persons having horses, cattle, houses, lota or house hold goons for sale, exchange, or parties desiring to buy such prop One 4-room house, and one lot erty, will find T he O bserver a on Court street. good medium for advertising and B. F. P ier , securing a customer. Try 275] Moro, Or T he O eseevbe , Moro, Or limber lard far Sale. Sstiiifaction Guaranteed F U R N IT U R E I l Raj, Sell ir Eiebaage Elegant Snail Fan ....................................... k S U M M O N S —In the C ircuit Court ot the State of Oregon for Sherman county. G ra s s V a lie v , O re g o n Priant Ila Entrila M cM illan, P laintiff, vw. Rtebard Henry MnMillan, Defendant. -a. T o Hiohard Henry M cM illan, tbe above named defendant— In the name nt tbe Histe nt Oreonn: You ars hereby required to appear and answer «be oomnlatnt filed aerafost you in tbe above entitled «alt, on or before tbe last day of the tim e prescribed in tbe order of pnblieattnp, to wit: on or before tbe tat day of November. 1907, and if you fa ll to eo ap pear and answer, p lain tiff w ill apply to tbs sosrt for tbe relief demanded la tbe oom- plaint filed herein apamet you, to-wit. for a dseree dimnlvtns tbe bonds of matrimony wow sxtettas between tbe plaintiff and yonr- aalf ou the aronndaof w illful desertion; and for snob other and farther relief as to tbe «ourt may seem equitable and Joat. Tbla snmmona la served npon yon by pnb Ifsatlon thereof for a period of six auceeee- tve weeks In Tbe Sbertnan Ooonty Observer, a weekly new »paper of seaeral eiroulation, pwbltehed In Sherman eoontv. Orason, in 8*00 to an order of the Hon K V L it- Id, Jadeeof tbe above entitled oourt, dalv made on tbe 14th day of September, and tbe daw of the Brat pobtieatiou thereof is the 90th day of September, 1907. j j Faxnx Bowurau., Attorney TM9al-W41 for I>l.<ntiff N a a a fk e ta re na»e B4ewp la» H a u c k I * * H arness S addles ! H alters Repairing Solicited. ............... . All Work Guaranteed. I ... i H i , A lw ays Remember the Full Namo | .axative R ro m o Q u in in e ^ Cures a Cold in One Day, Grip in T w o. ltfv, . . . V 39«. 1 s .... . I / ; f 4 '
