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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1912)
M o i‘O, S h e r m a n Ö o u n tv , O ROBBERS’ HAUL Clapp Bill Aim: Presidential ' stanai Cam Washington.- the senate cam] mlttee’s inveetl K. Clapp of M the oommlttee, ate a drastic fc campaign fund Showing the Most Complete Line of Fine Holiday Gifts ever shown in this a Sherman County. Are not nloue confined tQ Rural Free Dem and the Telephone. There w Another cortvenieo farmers should have — and many do have — a < count with a good hank. The pofneabor of such avoids the rirk of having his money on his per- bis home where it is in d a n g e r of fire and thiev<«e. His bills paid by check are not only a valid also a convenience in his home transactions whei the necessary change for concluding r-eUlement is D oi/tkiop to think this over, hu t start an account GEORGE MILLER T he welj known workman will attend to all calls direct or by phone for PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, ETC g - • A-« * • Now prepared with a complete kit of tools to attend all calls for plumbing, etc. in the country. Have you seen pur Steel Watering Troughs? U n o t take a look and order one. ,p o n M a i l S t. ; M o ro , l*»l I I'H I 'H» 1 AT I"t M H I M i J ’i LIV ER Y FEED ANO SA L E S T A B L E C r x a - s s ’V a . l l © ^ . O r © . j br'i Bern Located near Hotel Vintin Special‘Attention for Commercial Travelers Tranaiont Team# Given Prompt Attention George Ellard, Proprietor AUTO M O BILE FOR H IRE . Limit Use of I Congres si Funds.* direct result of or. rthution oom- rSenator Moses m. chairman of need In the sen- It.ng the use ol Ir jsldentlal and IS $20,000 Two Mon Hold up Express Car and Oat Bank's Money Bakersfield, Cal.—Twenty thousand dollars tn gold was the haul of two robbers who held up the express car of the Sunset Western, train bound from Bakersfield for Taft, Cal. The money jr a s oonslgned to the Jflrst Na tional Bank of Taft by the First Na tional Bank of Bakersfield. It was not placed in the express safe. When the train arrived at Taft rail road men were forced to break down the door of the express car. In a cor ner covered with mall sacks was M. W. Hamby, the express messenger, who was Just regaining consciousness, hut phyelgtsna who ere min s< Mm de clared that apparently he was net se riously hurt. Hamby could provide only few details of the robbery. Several posses left here tor the scene of the robbery, and others are searching In the vicinity of Marloopa and Taft. Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Abetract of Votes Shows Development Salem.—The rapid development of the Oregon system as pertaining to the Initiative, to shown In the size of the sheet of paper required for the printing of the abstract of votes cast for the measure*. I n l H l . when the initiative was tn Its Infancy, the abstract of votes on the measures was placed In the same table with the vote on the candidates. The whole thing required 10 Inches. The abstract for the vote In tbs lest election Is now being prepared by Secretary ef Stats Olcott and the In itiative has grown until It Is necessary Governors Repudiate Bleeee*e Views to abandon the single sheet for‘the Richmond, Va.—The governors’ con abstract and print the report In pam ference unanimously repudiated the phlet form. recent utterance of Governor Blease, of 8outh Carolina, concerning the Shell Rook Road Injunction Lost lynching of negroes. By a vote of 14 Hood River.—The Injunction served to 4 It adopted a resolution declaring on Hood River oounty by the O.-W. against mob violence and tor the Im R. A N. Co. recently asking that Hood partial enforcement of the law. River eounty officials be restrained P ersy, firm, eorsoratUtt, oomtalttee or any offlqei send moneys from ^ue state t0 SB- other for the purpose i f influencing elections. Such general prohibition, however, is not provided a '.Most poli tical committees, the blllf specifying: “The national compiltteeb of politi cs) partfp# SP*7 wake payment« for ex penses of campaign speak era, trans portation, hotel hills, expenses for the dissemination of campaign literature and advertising.** Violations of the proposed measure are made punishable by Imprisonment of from six months to one y^nr.— Governors Act on Rural Credit Plan. The conference of governors here Hadley Plan Opposed by Borah took official action to further the ex Washington.—Senator Borah of Ida tension of rural credits, after listening ho, Is not tn favor of the proposal o' to an address on the subject by Preai- Governor Hadley, of Missouri, to call a convention of republicans next sum mer for the purpose of perfecting for the reorganization of the republican party. He does not think such a convention would be practica ble or successful, as It would have no recognized authority, and would not bind anyone by Its action. commended for adoption bk this coun try. The system, he exiialned, con sisted of an association of'amall state or land banka, whoao s<4e business was the Issuance and guarantee of bonds secured by farm lauds These bonds have ho fixed dnt«> for retire ment, but their average to 30 to 75 years. The Interest on the bonds av erages three per cent a year, exclus ive of the cost o f the bond issuance. Assay Office, to Close. The house voted to close assay of fices at Boise. Hefrhit and Car«on on June 30 n ext The legislative appro- Events London.—The prospects of a satis factory and reasonably rapid settle ment of the Balkan war and of the greater European Interests hanging upon it seem brighter than at any time since the allied armies took the field s p lin t Turkey. The envoys from the Balkan kingdoms and the Ottoman empire, will bold the first meeting of the peace conference next Friday, Dec. 13th. At the same time the ambassadors of the great powers in London charg ed with the task of protecting the In terests of their countries will meet as a sort of court of appeals to watch, advise and admonish the peace dele gates. Thia will he by far the most Import ant assembly of diplomats since the Berlin conference of the Russo-Turk ish war. Giants like Bismarck, Bea consfield, Salisbury and Gortchakoff, to be sure, will not tread the stage, but their successors who go will have an equally Important work to perform. from prosecuting the work on the Shell Rock road around Shell Rock mountain, where the road runs close to the present railroad track, has been dissolved by Judge W. L. Bradshaw of Hood River oounty and the suit dis missed. The Injunction was dented on the ground that it was prematurely brought. BONDINGACTSOPPOaED Co-Opeéatits Union Holds Three-Day Meeting at Baker Baker.—With two closed meetings the three days of the Farmers’ Edu catlonal and Co-operative Union con vention closed In this city. The meet ings consisted of reports by the com mittees on legislation constitution, minimum prices and resolutions. The recommendation In the report of the legislation committee opposing bond- üig acts for the upkeep of roads was enacted It Is not knpwn whether any action further than the oonventlon In dorsement will be taken In this direc tion. The attendance at thtf last day’s session dropped off considerably, hut not so much but that a great deal of Interest was manifested to the last. It Is generally conceded by those who have attended the other conventions of the union that the one Just closed was the beet ever held. December 13, 1912. Dear F riend: «' We used to have the worst kind of bread a t our bouse; i t w ouldn't r ia p ; the cook said ws d id n 't have in our house the rig h t kind of flo u r, eo Mamma changed her mind, and for. a long time now we’have been making our bread out of Vhite R iver, and Snow D r ift, at$1.45 a sack, le s s by the b a r r s l; Diamond V Pan cake s e l£ r a is in g f lo u r, 15c a package, as well as Graham flo u r a t 45c fo r 10 pounds; Olympia 50c fo r a 10 pound sa ck . Your friend,. JACOB, _ P J > . They s e l l a i l these kind MELOY’S Party Leaders Assemble to Plan on Work During Next Four Years. ;.T Chfago.—The event of the week fca the 1 eld of politics was the national conference of progressive leaders In Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday, to devise plans for carrying on the work life to the Seattle Mfea y office, which of the party during * the next People in the News gets the usual d B H k atloa of I13-050- Rossburg Poultry Exhibition Opened years. Colonel Roosevelt wan among House Committee to Study Tariff ' The will of the late Senator Rayner, ? Roseburg.—With an exceptionally those In attendance^ the conference. of Maryland, shows that the value^of Thorough revision schedule by large number of exhibits representing He has entirely recovered from his bis estate Will approximate $1,000,000. schedule, of thé prête! tariff by the a quality of birds far superior to the wound and took active part. The resignation of Robert L. Far next congress was Indicated by the "barhyard” product heretofore dis “Without trafficking or dickering rington, second vice president of the decision of the dessocrai c members of played In this country, the Second an with the old partlee, fight to have our Great Northern railroad, is announced. the house wgys and means committee nual exhibition of the Douglas County platform principles embodied In the Major-General Julius Staehl, of the to have bearings on the tariff every Poultry and Pet Stock association laws of Illinois.- was the appeal Col civil war volunteers, died in New York Monday, Wednesday and Friday in opened here under the most Battering onel Roosevelt made to the newly after an Illness of about a year. He January, beginning January 6. «ondltions. Chloksns of all colors and elected members of the Illinois legis was second oldest surviving general One day will be devoted to each Brief News of the week kinds were exhibited, and the poultry lature, to whom he made his first schedule, though If necessary in any of the civil war. fanciers were In their glory. speech at the conference. Heavy snows and extreme cold to Henyy Disher, of Davenport, Iowa, case, not exceeding two days will be Among those who participated hfc aged 73 years, and a veteran of the allowed. There are 14 schedules, but Colorado have driven packs of gray the deliberations were: Governor Medford Rats War Begins olvil war, has Just welcomed bis twen by merging two or three of the minor wolves out of the timber and many Medford.—Because Medford, accord Stubbs of Kansas, William Allen are falling victims to their at ty-third child, tt is a few days old. schedules with the Important sched ing to a statement of Mayor Canen, to White, Henry J. Allen, Editor Tan His oldest Is a son, 43 years old. All ules the committee expects to get tacks. paying a higher rate for electric lights Valkenburg of Philadelphia, Gifford The Nebraska Woman Suffrage as than any d ty In the state, and because pinohot, William Flinn, Bull Moose through with the hearings by the end sociation has decided to petition for an amendment passed nt the last gên leader In Pennsylvania; Dean Klrch- of January. a submission to the people of a consti erai election gives councils the right ney of Columbia university; State tutional araendnumt providing for wo to fix the rates, a committee has been Chairman Hotohklas of New York, for National Capital Brevities man suffrage. appointed to submit a uniform rate to mer Attorney General Charles B. Bon The-official vote of Ohio on presi be charged by the Oregon-Callforuia aparte, Miss Frances Keller of New The house passed the Crago bill to pension Spanish war Veterans, widow« dent shows that Wilson carried the Power company. York, Miss Alloe Carpenter of Massa state over Taft by 146,086. The vote: and children. chusetts and many other persona of The senate as a oourt of impeach Wilson 428,152; Taft 277,066, Roose Colonel Rooeevelt and UNIVERSITY CUTS BUDGET prominence. ment has begun taking of testimony velt 229,327, Chafln 11,459, Debs 89,930. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick will he the All native newspapers have been Sum Granted by Last Legislature Cut guests at Hull House of Jane Addama. In the trial of Judge Archbald. Beveral of the governor« of the New forbidden to discuss the movements of The largest single delegation came From »503,000 to »205,000 York stock exchange have been sum Chinese troops, indicating that the from New York on a special train with Eugene.—To hold down to the bare moned to appear before the house situation to precarious, and that China Colonel Roosevelt. The Colonel wan Dr. Bun Tat 8en, Chinese progres money trust committee. Is ready to fight Russia on a moment's neoeeeltles and to Join whole hearted- greeted at the railroad station with ly in the atate-wlde movement for sive leader, and former provisional Through an executive order, issued notice. cheers and shouts of “he can come president of the new republic, to com by President Taft, more than 20,000 As a result of the government cri economies In pnbMc expenditure« was bark.” the deciaton of the board of regents ing to Los Angeles with three mem employes of navy yards throughout sis resulting from his failure to find The committee on arrangements to bers of the Chinese cabinet. The ori the United States are put under the a successor to Lieutenant General of the state university when it put the attendance at the conference included knife Into the budget passed by the entals also will visit San Francisco, protection of civil service. every state chairman and members of last legislature and cut the total from Washington and New York. It cost the Democratic National com »601,000 to »205,000. “Make a bonfire of your hats; throw mittee »1,159,446 to carry the election The university’« requests at Salem away your corsets and wear trousers for Wilson and Marshall, according to tre to be confined to the following Instead of these ridiculous tight Its final statement of contributions items: »100,000 for a new classroom skirts,” is the recommendation of Mrs. and expenses filed with the house. building; »75,000 for repairs and minor The common towel w m ^ ordered additions; »10,000 a year for'two yearn abolished from railroad car^ veasels, ror additional maintenance and »15,- all other Interstate vehicle« dad from 600 a year for two years for corres stations, by Secretary MacVeagh In an pondence and extension “work, a total amendment tq the Interstate quaran of »205,000 for the biennium. tine regulations. Portland The procedure favored by the re . The pension programme of the Dem Wheat—Club, 79c; blueetem. Me; Fallowed the Example of Ceto. gents was the submtoelen of th ese Ia the first year 6f the Inst centnry ocrats In the house ha« h«en definitely Items to Governor VRSit with the re red Russian. 76c. Loiidou aCfe' ied great admiration for settled by the determination of the Oat»—»26 per ton. quest that he should lay the universi Cato’s suicide, the feeling being arous committee on Invalid pensions to at Hay—Timothy, »V; alfalfa. H i. ty's needs before the ways and means ed by Addison’s play. A gentleman tempt no general pension legislation Butter—Creamery, Sfc. oommlttee. named BudgelC" after wltnesalng It* In this short session. Bggs—Candled. 42c. performance, threw himself Into the The final statement of the contribu Hops—1912 crop, lie . Albany Y. M. C. A. »tart« • Thames on his way home. His body tions and expenditure« from the Roose Wool—Eastern Oregon. lie ; Wil Albany.—Permanent organisation of was recovered, and on It was found a a Young Men’s Christian association lamette valley, 22H«- •crap of paper with these words: “What velt Progressive presidential campaign man diplomats from marryi«! torm*n Mohalr—22c. Coto did andfe,Addison approved must fund filed with the clerk of the house In Albany was effected at n meeting showed total oontrlhutlons of l«7d,- ers. needs be right” \ hold In the rooms of the Albany com To emphasize to the world at largo »72.73 and expenditure« o f »666,500. mercial club. The association adopted that San Francisco, on the eve of Its General Maiis, commanding the de Everybody Has Trouble. a constitution and bylaw», arranged “I can’t get a new bat because the partment of the Columbia, has «ubmlt- exposition era, haa buried' discord and for incorporation of the organisation children need sboea" ted a report to the war department that all factions will be found pulling and elected a board of directora Thin -I’m to the same boat.” strongly recommending the fortifica together, various newspapers and civic board wlll chooao the officers of the “Why, you have no children?* tion of the entrance« to Grays Harbor bodies have started a movement for a association at a meeting to ba h©M T rue, but I can’t get s new dre«s and Willapa Ilarbe* on the Washing great “burning the hammer” celebra because the sot© needs tlfee."—Pitts tion qn Chrtotmaa avm ton coast - _ . burgh Post .
