Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931, September 11, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text. Or.HitlSoc., CHx, Hall. M oro, S h erm a n E k s t a b l i s h e d 1Ö Ö 7. Wm. Rudolf THE ONE Finit street. Strong b rick, Aloro, Ore. SÛRE W AY tial to your success*_____ To those wishing such relations we heartily eitend. oor services, W asco W arehouse M illing C o . B A N K M oro Confectionery B illia rd and Pool Tables Ice cold drinks and Ice cream iu sea son. JBp&a water, bottled and fountain, alw ays on hand. Vinton Hotel G RASS VALLEY, O RE. New Entirely, H otel M a . — » r - oro — Convient to Business ........... P R IC E S R E A S O N A B L E V Nearest Hotel to Btiainess Center, Bank« and Depot. Conducted on Best Principles —r - Sunday D inner 35 cents. 1 F ir s t C lass B a r b e r Shop in th e H o te l. , < :* u im r r c lM l T r a d e h o llc llé S i Opposite PosCOffice W hen Moro, Oregon. in i • l*<> r 11» m l H o t e l K e i) t , '^?r’ R . M o a la c h o r , p r o p . • . -7 ' , . y * ' Accommodation« F irst Clap«. -• . H eadquarters for 1 raveling Men Rooms Well Furniehed, Nicely V entilated, Newly Renovated The Bost of Table Board at Moderate ‘ Price, STOP AT Hotel Oregon C o rn e r 7 th a n d S tark S tre e ts . I t la ne w and U* room » are provided w ltti ru n n in g w a te r and lo n g dlatsnce tele- phonea. E u ro p ea n p lan . R ate * f l per day and up w ard H ig h e s t priced ro o m $3 per d a y . Wright-Dickinson Hotel Co. Chas. W rig h t, President. M. C. Dickinson, Manager. y where the people stop Q The Umatilla House T l» e Hteain H eat. Iï iii ie » , O r e g o n , Electric L ig h ts Electric Cal! Bells. Esmond Hotel P ro tla n d , O re g o n . H O T E L R A T E S T O S U IT YO^J. All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door . Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby. T . N. C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r . maM»**AAAe«tofia^Are**A,***,tW AWA****« « ♦ » V ♦ A ♦ * A«h*BBA*d»A i PLUMBING S» STEAM FITTING I OSCAR t e A NDERSO N Trent ud MANAGER M oot Stroets F re e b u s to a n d from tra in s R a te s by th e d a y 5 0 c, 7 6 c, $ 1 .0 0 , $ 1 .6 0 , $ 2 , E u ro p e a n P lan , A G ood C lean F am ily Hole! All kind? of Reservoir and Cistern work in con nection with water systems installed in first class style and all wofk done guaranteed. Dynam ite and powder work on all kind« of Rock Excavations H. A. S tuart, Moro, Oregon. ■ P lastering , R rick and r • *» w w w r U ntil further notice I will not carry with me on my trips over the county any medicine», salves or linim ents; but a full stock will be kept on hand a t my store and all mail orders will be prom ptly tilled. Ilex Hunter, Agt,taKo, Oregon Oregon “ Builders 1 J Are you doing what you can to populate your state? O R E G O N N E E D S P E O P L E —Pettier«, honest, farmers, mechanics, merchants, clerks, people w ith brains, strong hands and a w illin g h eart—c a p lta lo r uo capital. •• The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. 0 - 6 iflessinger N lo ro . C ity O re g o n . D ra y Express and Freight Deli^eryd to any Part of the City Piano and F urniture Moving. Is sending tons of Oregon literature to the East for distribution through every available agency. W ilt you not help the good work of building Oregon by sending us the Darues and addresses of your friends w ho are likely to ts* interested In this state? W e w ill be glad to hear the expense of sending them complete inform ation about O R E G O N , and Its opportunities. .*. Trunks and Grips Delivered To and From all Trains. C O L O N I S T T I C K E T S w ill be on sale d urin g S E P T E M B E R and O C T O B E R from the East to all points In Oregon. The fares from a few principal cities are .. .*. REED H U L S E From D e n v e r ..... ..$ 3 0 00 From L ouisville.-----.141.70 Cincinnati 42.20 30.00 “ - Omaha 44 75 Cleveland 30. (X) “ ♦ Kansas City. 65 00 New York 35.60 “ St. L o u is ,... 38.00 “ Chicago........ T ic k e ts can be P re p a id riepnsl the If voll w an t to bring a friend or relative to Oregon, deposit K r o you V w lth 'a n y of -----agents. ill ill then p w i am ount our agents. T he T he ticket ticket w w tht l>e furnished by telegraph. Wm. F . C R A B Î T 1 R R E E , D«>cal Agent, Moro, Or. M c H u rra y , Proprietor of CITY DRAY NO. 2 Draying of all Kinds. Trunks and Grips Hauled to and from all trains General Passenger Agent, P o r tla n d , READ THE OBSERVER O rego n. A L L th e tim e . F o r C o u n ty new s . ■ _ f O d t ’S OMuYYfcCao . A Ii '.■•in*«* p treo io ry of »«eh C ity, T ow n «nd V illa s* In Oregon end W r.ahlneton, g iv in g a D escrip tiv e Hhetcli Qt each piece, Location. S h ip p in g F a c ilitie s a n d a Cla««l- ftod D irectory o f ea c h Dualneag and Profession. H. L. POCK a CO., In«. Heat tie. W ash. ? 4 19O S F iv e C e n ts ou the street cars or walk past ■ new building. T ry to take some broth now and let Sudle go back to her drawing, so she can sell the editor man with It and buy port wine for her sick child and pork chops for her greedy self.” “ You needn't get any more wine,” said Johnsy, keeping her eyes fixed out the window. “There goes another. No; I don’t w ant any broth. That leaves Just four. I want to see the last one fell before It gets dark; then 1*11 go too.” “Johnsy, dear,” said Sue, bending over her. “w ill you promise me to keep your eyes closed and not look out the window until I am done working? 1 moat hand those drawings In by tomor row. I need the light or I would draw the shade down.” “Couldn’t you draw In the other room?" asked Johnsy coldly. “I ’d rather be here by yon,” said Races every day of the Fair Sue. “Resides, I don’t went you to Greatest exhibit of any const fair New buildings all completek keep looking at those silly Ivy leaves.” Fr«•<> evening entertainm ents * “Tell me as soon as you have fin Walks and grounds the finest McElroys Band and Orchestra ished,” said Johnsy, closing her eyes Prom inent men will speak and lying white and still as a fallen Free camping for thousands statue, “because I want to see the last Agricul ural Co'lege boltl nTeetings. Fancy stock shown daily one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose Reserved Boxes can be had in Advance for Races. my bold on everything and go sailing down, down, Just like one of those Complete Program for Six D a y e.' - - Two Great 8how * poor, tired leaves.” “T ry to sleep,” said Sue. “I must Day and Right. - - Something Doing Every Hour call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner. I ’ll not be gone a minute. Don’t try to move till I COJO} back.” Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. 1. He was past sixty and had a Michel angelo’s Moses . beard curling down from the head of a satyr along the body of an Imp. Behrman was a fa il ure In a r t ) Forty years be had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his mistress’ robe. He had been always about to paint a masterploce, but had never yet begun It For several years be had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artista In the colony who could not pay the price of Of the Second Eastern Oregon D istrict' a professional. H e drank gin to ex cess and still talked of his co in in g Comprised of the Counties of Wasco, , masterpiece. For the' rest he was a fierce little old man, who scoffed terri Hood River, Sherman, Gilliam, Crook, bly at softness lita n y one and who re garded himself as especial mastiff In and Wheeler, will be held at waiting to protect the two young art ists In the studio above. ' '^ 4 - , ■ - ' ' . Sne found Behrman'smelling strong ly of Juniper berries In his dimly light ed den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that bad been waiting there for twenty-five years to Thursday, Friday,* and Saturday receive the first line of the master Tuesday, Wednesday, piece. She told him of Jobnsy's fancy and how she feared she would Indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away when her alight hold upon the world grew weaker. Old Behrman, w ith his red eyes plaln: The Main Attractions are ly streaming, shouted his contempt end derision for such Idiotic Imaginings. The Pavilion in the city. "Vase!” he cried. "Ie dere people In Stock Ekhihit. Speed Attractions. de world m lt der foolishness to die be School Childrens Exhibit. Balloon Ascensions. cause leafs day drop off from a con- fotfnded vine? I haf not beard of such Arnolds Amusement Co., who will o u td o former efforts. a thing. No, I vlll not bose as a model All ruilroud anti boat lines will give reduced rates of fare for your fool hermit dunderhead. Vy db you allow dot silly puslneas to come In der praln of her? Ach. dot poor Handsome Premiums Offered for all Exhibits, Races, Etc. lettle Miss JohnsyP 'She la very 111 and weak,” said Sue, See premium list, which will he furnished upon application “and the fever has left her mind mor A great exhibit of our annual resources and endless amusement* bid and full of strange fancies. .Very in car lots are io store for everybody. well, Mr. Behrman, I f you do not care to pose for me, you needn’t But I think you are a horrid old—old flibber tigibbet.” ’You are just like a woman!” yelled Behrman. “Who said I vlll not! boos? Go on. I come m lt you. For half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose. G o tt dis Is not any “ W ith good nursing you'll win. And shade be raised. blace In which one so goot as Miss now 1 must see another case I hare The ivy leaf was still there. Johnsy shall He sick. Some day I vlll Behrman his name Is. Johnsy lay for n loug time looking downstairs. balnt a masterpiece, and ve shall all go at IL And then she ennwh to Sue. who ■OOM kind to ail artist, I believe, avay. Gott, yes!” was stirring her chic k ih • broth ^qver l'ueumonla too. He Is an old, week Johnsy was sleeping when they man, nud the attack Is scute. There the gas stove. went upstairs. Sue pulledithe shade T v * been a bad girl, Sudle.” said is no hope for him, hut be goes to the down to the window sill and motioned Johnsy. "Something has made that hospital today to be made more com Behrman Into the other room. In there fort aide.” they peered out of the window fear The next day the doctor said to Boa: fully at the Ivy vine. Then they looked "S h e 's <uit of danger. You've wea. at each other for a moment without Nutrition and care uow—that's alL” speaking. A persistent cold rain was Ami th at afternoon Sue came to the falling, mingled w ith snow. Behrman, bed where Johnsy lay contentedly knit in his old blue s h irt took his seat as ting a very blue and very useless wool the hermit miner on an upturned ket en shoulder scarf and put one area tle for a rock. around heV, pillows and alL When Sue awoke from an hour’s “ 1 have somethlug to tell yon. white sleep the next morning she found mouse,” she said. “Mr. Behrman died Johnsy w ith dull, wide open eyes star of pneumoula today In the hospital. ing at the draw n green shade. He was HI ouly two days. The Janitor Pull It up; I w ant to see,” she or found li^tn on the morning of the Brat dered In a whisper. day In his room downstairs belpleee W earily Sne obeyed. with pain. Ills shoes and clothing B u t Io, after the beating rain and were wet through and Icy cold. They fierce gusts of wind that bad endured couklu't Imagine where he had been through the livelong night there yet on such a dreadful n ig ht And then stood out against the brick w all one Ivy they found a lantern, stUl lighted, sad leaf. I t w<fi the last on the vine. Still i ladder that had been dragged from dark green near Its stem, but with its Its place nnd some scattered brushes serrated edges tinted with the yellow and a palette With green and yellow of dissolution and decay. It bung brave colors mixed on It, and—looh out the ly from a branch some tw enty feet window, dear, at the last Ivy leaf ea above the ground. the w a it Dhln’t you wonder why It " It Is the last one,” said Johnsy. ”1 never flutt»*red or moved whan the thought It would sorely fall daring the wind blew? Ah. darling. tt’e Behr- n ig h t I heard the wind. I t w ill fall man’s masterpiece. He painted It there V' today, and I shall die to the seme the night thht the last leaf f e l l ” tíme.” "Deer, deer,” aald Sne. leaning her H ead D aw n. « worn face down to the pillow, “think The habit of w alking “heed dews” of me If yon won’t think of yourself! < » / «»• i i i 'H ' i . m .» lit- eeema to be growing upon no. I enu- “My. ¿Aehi'tfi'in W hat would I d o t* not help, noticing that a rest asejorlty l i i t U h i t/ti /,( -«,»(((li.” v‘ But Johnsy did not answer. The lonesomeet thing In all the world Is a lest leaf stay there to : how nut how of men are gazing blankly at the pev*- ment as they proceed. Are they Ire* soul when It Is making ready to go on wicked I, was. It is a sin to want to Its mysterious fa r Journey. The fancy die. You may brhig ' e « little broth inersed in thought? Are they wank In seemed to poseeos her more strongly now and some tnil'x with a little port the neck? Are their kata too heavy 1 Do they try to avoid acqualatnMes? as one by one the ties that bound her In It. and -uo . luiug me a baud mirror to friendship end to earth were loosed. first, and then pack some pillows shout Are they endeavoring to make aa ha- presslon that they are working set The day wore away, and even me, and 1 will sit up und w-nteh you acme giant problem? Ia there any through the tw ilig ht they could see cook." thing pretty In the pevemeot? Are An hour later she sold: the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem A re they “Sudle, some day I hope to paint the their shoes attractive? against the wall. And then with the ashamed to lift their eyes, threw out coming of the night the north wind bey of Naples.” 1 their cheats and look the world to the The doctor came hi the afternoon, was again loosed, while the rein «till beat against the windows and pattered and Sue had an excuse to go luto the face? Uow many men do yoa knew j who alt erect In a public conveyaaea down from the low Dutch es vea. hallway as be left. * “liven chances," said the doctor, tak- ( eyes on . the level, toad w all petoad ea When M wan M s * i a s f h Johaaty. Bus’s thin, stoking hand In bis. a etrel Oregon State Fair - Exposition --------- By O. H E N R Y . (C opyright, 1906, by the S. 8. M cC lure Co. 1 N a little district west of Washing ton square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into WON ON THIRTEENTH TRIAL. small strips called places. These pi «fees make strange angles and curves. I Plucky Catcher Accomplished Feat One street crosses itself a time or two. Many Experts Vainly A ttu W ^ d . An artist ouee discovered a valuable Sphere. Dropped From Top of Wash- possibility lu this street. Suppose a v ln g to n Monument, Wee Five and collector with a hill for paints, paper and canvas should In traversing this Three-quarter Seconds Falling. route suddenly meet himself coming From a little window ouly a few back without a cent having been paid feet beluw the top of the Washington ou account! So to quaint old Greenwich village monument at the national capital there dropped the other day a baseball the art people, soon came prowling, such aa la used by the big leagues. It hunting for north windows and eight eenth century gables and Dutch attics curved, twisted, stpilrmed ami then and low rents. Then they Imported w ith a thud and an Impact that nearly1 some pewter mugs and a chafing dish knocked the daring recipient down or two from Sixth avenue and became landed In the padded band of Charlie a “Colony.” Street, un American league cat« her. At ilu- top <>f a squatty three story When th a t Insignificant looking brldt Sue and Johnsy had their studio. sphere had landed a feat long consid Johnsy wits fam iliar for Joanna. One ered Impossible had been accomplish was from Maine, the other from Cal ed, anti Street was heralded as the ifornia. They had met at the table first man who had ever caught a ball d’hoto of an Eighth street “Delmon- thrown from such a height—550 fe e t _ lco’a” and found their tustes In art, The Impact against the pitcher's m itt chicory salad and bishop sleeves so Is estimated at 200 pounds. The ve congenfcil that tho Joint studio resulted. locity in the last second was tre T hat n rs ' lD’ May. In November a mendous. cold, uufceeu stranger, whom the doc Street used the ordinary catcher’s tors called Ibieumonla, stalked about glove. the colony, touching one here and there The sttrrlug Beene wan witnessed by with his tty finger. Over on the east only a few men, who had been luvlted side this hunger strode boldly, smit to fhe test. There was Street himself, ing hlg victims by scores, but bis feet sta n d in g sixty feet away from thC trod slowly through the uiuze of the bag*-of the monument. Around him narrow and moss grown places. clustered I ’reston Gibson, newspaper Mr. Pneumonia was not what you proprietor and clubman; Gaule.v, left would call a chivalrlc old gentleman. fielder of the Washingtons, and Mc A mite of a Utile woman with blood Bride. shortstop. thinned by California zephyrs was hard F ar above this little group. In the ly fair game for the red fisted, short tiny window that looked like a dot^pn breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he the monument, stood another man. smote, and she lay, scarcely moving, lie had ten baseballs with him. Us on her painted irou bedstead, looking constructed of two little planks a sort through the small Dutch Windowpanes of runway, down which he was to roll nt the blaqk side of the next brick the spheres. bouse. There was no w arning of when the One morning the busy doctor Invited first ball or the last one was to come Sue Into the hallway with a shaggy hurtling down to Street. H e didn’t gray eyebrow. have the advantage of the usual sig “She has one chance in, let us say, nals from the pitcher. All he could do ten,” he said ns he jtbodk down the was to stand there, eyes like slits, mercury- In h'ls clinical thermometer, hands held out, head up, waiting. “nnd that chance Is for her to want H e knew that before him such to live. This way people have of lin glnnts of the diamond as Buck E w ing up on the side of the undertaker ing. Paul Hines, Charley Snydor and makes the entire pharmacopoeia look Malachi Kittredge bad stood In that silly. Your little Indy has made up same spot long ago and made gallant her mind that she’s not going to get but futile attempts to capture the base well. Has she anything on her mind 7” balls that swished and sank down “She-she wanted to paint the bay ward faster than any express train, of Naples some day,’’ said Sue. wiggling as If they had St. Vitus’ “ Paint? Bosh! lia s she anything on dance, now being swept this w ay hj^ her mind worth thinking about twice— the wind. In an Instant forced In an a man, for instance?” other direction, always erratic, al “A man?” said Sue, w ith a Jewsharp ways baffling. twang In her voice. "Is a man worth— Street stood on the north aide of the Rut, no, doctor, there Is nothing of the monument. SudderflJ» Ganley sang out, kind.” “ Here she comes S treet1 saw the “Well, It Is the weakness, then,” said b a ll-a tiny dot against the aky. The (Be doctor. “I will do all that science, wind whisked It to one side.1 Btr« ■ t so fa r ns It mny filter through my ef- shifted his position. I t took Just five forts, can accomplish. But whenever and three-quarter seconds for the ball my patient l»eglns to count* the car to hit the earth, th irty feet from him. riages In her funeral procession I sub Again came a whistling, erratic bull tract 50 per cent from the curative It plunged fa r from the catcher. S« v power of medicines. I f you w ill get en other spheres shot downward, and her to ask one question about the new yet Street might as well have been a winter styles in cloak sleeves I w ill mile away. promise you a one lu five chance for Ball No. 11 came closer to the man | her Instead of one In ten.” below, and he had his gauge. The A fter the doctor hnd gone Sue went tw elfth ball hummed almost into Into the workroom and cried a Japa Street’s hands. It touched the tips of nese napkin to a pulp. Then she swag Jils Augers, and from the Impact he gered Into Jolmsy’s room with her knew that If one of the missiles hit drawing board, w histling ragtime. Ills head It would l»e good night for Johnsy lay. scarcely making a ripple him. under the bedclothes, w ith her face to G rittin g his teeth nt the thought that ward the window. Sue stopped whis unlucky thlrteeu was coming his way. tling, thinking she was asleep. carrying defeat, the plucky catcher She arranged her board and began a heard Gauley sing out again: [>cn nnd Ink draw ing to Illustrate a “You’ve got It!” magazine story. Young artists must There was a "bang,” and Street pave their way to a rt by drawing pic quivered from head to foot, as a ship tures for magazine stories that young would quiver lu a collision.. H e gtood authors w rite to pave their way to as still ns a wooden Indian, looking literature. at the little sphere In his hands. Then As Sue was sketching a pair of ele he laughed like a child, only h alf con gant horse show riding trousers and a scious of the fact that he had done monocle on the figure of the hero, w hat no man In the world ever had Idaho cowboy, she heard a low sound done before. several times repeated. She went Street described his experience as quickly to the bedside. . follows: Johnsy’s eyes were open wide. She “The approach of the hall appeariM was looking out the w lnd oy and count to be In wavy lines, and that motion ing—counting backward. was made more realistic by the prevail “Tw elve,” she said, and a little later ing winds. I couldn’t gauge the line of “eleven,” and then “ten” and “nine,” flight, and that Is a condition of the and then “eight” and “seven” almost first Importance In stopping a ball. It togat her. was an unusually windy day. Sue looked solicitously out the win “When I touched the tw elfth I »all 1 dow. W hat was there to count? There knew thnt I would succeed. My nerve was only a bare, dreary yard to be entne back, nnd when the thirteenth seen and the blank side of the brick ball arrived I closed In ou It and held house tw enty feet away. An old, old It fairly nnd squarely. Ivy vine gnarled and decayed at the “1 can’t say very much more about roots climbed halfw ay up the brick It. only that the force was more ter wall. The cold breath of autumn had rible than that of any ball 1 ever stricken Its leaves from the vine until ennglit In my life, either batted or Its skeleton branches clung almost thrown. I guess the speed Was many bare to the crumbling bricks. times greater than that of a ball hurl "W h a t kt It. dear?” asked Sue. ed nt me by Pitcher Johnson.” “Six,” said Johnsy In almost a whto per. “They're fnlllng faster now. Training Bank Employees to 8hoot. Three days ago there were almost a As the result of the trlm e wave that hundred. I t mado my head ache to has stVept over Massachusetts, with Its accompaniment of murders, burglarise, count them. But now It’s easy. There holdups and roblwrles, the Shawmut goes another one. There are only live National bank, one of the largest In le ft now.” "F ive what, dear? Tell your 8udle.” Boston, has equipped a shooting gal “ Leaves on the Ivy vine. When the lery In the basement of Its building, I’ve nnd every employee Is required to take last one falls 1 must go too. his turn at target practice for half an known that for three days. Didn't the hour dally. »Automatic guns are fu r doctor tell you?” “Oh, 1 never heard of such non nished every employee, from messen gers to bank cashiers, and the em sense,” complained Sue, with mag “W hat have old Ivy ployees are sent off In squads for their nificent acorn. practice, which Is under the supervi leaves to do with your getting well? sion of the chief watchman of the And you used to love that vine so, yon haughty girl. Don't be a goosey. Why, benk. the doctor told me thia morning that Esperanto Books For Blind. your chances for getting well reel soon The Bsperantleta have decided to pub were—let's see exactly whst he said— lish books in Esperanto for tho blind he said the chances were ten to onel and to prepare proper exhibits to glto Why. that’s almost aa good a filBMI Inform ation relative to as we h a re to I k » ■V S Cigars, Tobaccos A re A A 3K a -i STREET'S GREAT FEAT Diamond Star Held on to Ball Dropped >50 Feet. To have money is to save it. The one sure way to save it is to deposit it w ith Wasco Warehouse M illin g Co. bank. You w ill then be exempt from the annoyance of having it burn holes in your pockets. Aside from the tact that your money w ill be safe from theft; the habit of saving tends- to the establishment of th rift, economy, discipline and a general understanding of business principals essen i s 1 a C o u n t y , O i’euoxi, K r id a y , S e p t . 1 1 , i FO R 1905 Ibe Largest and Best of all the Pacific Coast fairs Special Railroad R ates Salem, Oregon, Sept. 14 to 19 ¿ Tsik of prcL f:r ygs tri the M y . M e r school lor ill. l t t ANNUAL DISTRICT FAIR The Dalles, Oregon October 6th to 10th J. L Kelly, President. J. i l Patterson, Secretary.