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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
WILL USE THE CANAL
JAPAN PREPARING FOR
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY.
She VIII BE One Of the Most Frequent
Patrons Of the Panama Canal and
Is Now Making Ready for AN Ex-
tcnsivc Commercial Development
Harbors and Rivers Being Repaired
and Made Ready for Business.

/ No country in the world is showing
a more lively interest in the Panama
canal than Japan. Word comes to the
state department that no less than
| $2O,O00,G00 has been set aside by the
government engineers for improve
/ ments in harbors, wharves, piers, etc,
to accommodate the greatly Increased
! shipping which the canal is expected
| to bring.
Within the past eight years $4,000
! 900 has been spent on the principal
I Japanese ports, and the work is still
going forward.
Thirty Japahese ports are now open
to the worlds trade. At four of these
there cleared i'm 1904 japanese YES
self with a total registry of 1869, ,745
tons, and foreign ships with a total
registry Of 12,O92,615 tons. Osaka
is coming to be called the Liverpool
of Japan"
No country is so important to Japan
as market as is the United States.
In 1904 we took nearly a third of
Japan's exports, which amounted that
year to s159,OOO,OOO. Our share off
this was $5O,O23,OOO.
In 1904 the largest item in our
commerce with Japan was mineral
oils, $5,5000O0, and the second larg-
est flour, $4,5OO,OOO. But during the
past fiscal year oil has given place to
cotton as the principal export to
Japan.
The largest item Of purchase from
Japan made by the United States I'm
1904 was raw silk and waste, 10000
900. This was followed by silk manu-
features. s6,1OO,OOO; tea, $500, 600;
mats and mating, $500 900 and por-
celain and earthenware, $1,000, 900.
Japan is preparing to subsidize a
line of steamers for call at South
American ports. The purpose, il is
said. is to get cheap wheat from the
Argentine. This is i'm accordance
with a policy recently adopted by the
mikado's government, to encourage
the eating of wheat i'm place of rice.
which is reported by japanese scien-
lists to be leSs nutritious than the
cereal foods. ,
Japan intends to dominate the
consuls report that the banking bus
mess is in the hands of the mem
bers of that race. and other lines are
trending the same way
Railway building in Korea has
gone on apace during the past 12
months. Fully $4,000, 900 has been
expended in railway extensions at a
cost of about $500 mile. The
gross value of the foreign trade for
1904 was $26.617,4S7, of which $13,-
7010O0 was for imports from abroad.
The latest population figures give
Korea 6.0OO,O00 souls, this count in
cluding Ham Kenug, province in the
north which was formerly under Rus
sian influence. Seoul the capital, has
200. 900 inhabitants and is growing
rapidly. There are 10000 Japanese
in the kingdom and more are COM
ing all the time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
BakCr CITY NEGLECTED..

Although Baker City and Baker
county have given large sums OF
money To the railroad company for
the privilege Of standing on the plat
form of a crowded car from here to
Portland, there has not been one cent
Of this money invested here in the
way Of improving the local depot
grounds. The passengers must alight
in the dark down in the sagebrush
near the fair grounds and trust to
their animal instinct TO find the de-
pot. The platform should he ex-
tended and lights put in.-Baker City
Herald
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
UINTAH LAND WORTHLESS.
Man Who Refused to File on His
Drawing Now In Baker City.

Earl J. Selects, who is one of the
reputed lucky persons in the Unitah
land drawing. is in Baker City and
says that the thing was practically a
hoax as the land was worthless, says
the Baker City Herald.
Mr.. Scheets drew No. 25S, which in
the ordinary land lottery would at
least be worth the selection. but in
this case he says the land was not
worth filing on and he did not file.
He was not the only man who refus-
ed to file. His choice by lot was the
25Sth, but so many men dropped out
OF the line byrefusing to file that Mr..
Scheets was offered 1SSth choice and
still he refused to take the land as a
gift
Nearly all Of the land thrown open
to settlement" said Mr. Scheets, "is
absolutely worthless. wouldn't
have it as a gift. The Indians, OF
course, we're given all Of the best land,
but the people did not know this, az
the real estate boomers who wanted
to make money out Of big lottery
advertised that the land was veri-
table Garden OF Eden.
"The government attempted to
counteract the effects OF this Wild
eating, but were unable to do so and
hundreds of suckers flocked TO the
reservation, When they drew their
numbers and We're allowed TO go in
and look over the land. they left in
disgust, most of them did.
II had my choice of all the land
covered between Nos. 1SS and 25s, but
I didn't want it as I can get better
land right here in oregon any day
without paying out any fee to those
land sharks. But the sharpers reaped
rich harvest. They got S25 for
pointing out what they called choice
claims and then so for locating the
corners of the claim and all kinds Of
other little fees. In my opinion, the
people who filed upon this land will
leave it within a few years for it is
about worthless"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
Contesting for "A Franchise.

Haines and North Powder will soon
have electric power for lighting their
towns. Already two separate COM
panies have petitioned Haines city
council to grant them franchise
and one of the companies propose to
light both that city and the town Of
North Powder.
One company headed by Messrs
Young and Sturgill Of this city. has
organized and are at work in earnest
to secure the franchise. They have
obtained water rights on Dutch Flat
creek
Another application for a franchise
to light the town of Haines has been
submitted to the council by DR.. May,
of this city. About the only differ
ence in the two petitions is that DR..
May asks for an exclusive right to
light the town of Haines for a period
of 25 years. The next meeting of the
council will decide what will be done.
Baker city Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
HOWARD ELLIOT'S ADDRESS.
Pacific President Sends Out
His Speech Before Interstate Com
mcrc,. Commission.

The address of President Howard
Elliot. of the Northern Pacific before
is now being circulated by the North
ern Pacific and w. & c. r. agents.
The address is an able presentation
of the railroads side of the freight
rate. icing cars, and other questions
now being considered by the commits
sion. Mr.. Elliot is practical rail-
road man, having begun his railroad
career as rodman. 25 years ago, in
Missouri since which time he has been
rapidly advanced from one position of
trust To another until he is president
of the Northern Pacific.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
NttackCh hN q NIoh.

and beaten, in labor riot, until COW
cred with sores, n Chicago street car
conductor applied Bucklen's Arnica
SalvC, and was soon sound and we'll
81 use it in my family" writes G. ].
Welch. of Tekonsha, Mich, "and find
II perfect Simply great for cuts and
burns. only 25c ut Tallman 4 Co.
and Brock 4 McComas drug stores.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
Uric Acid and Gravel

Are caused by the Kidneys being
unable to properly filter the impurities
from the blood. Irving's Buchu Waf-
ers are the only sure remedy for this
condition; they cleanse the kidneys
from all worn out material, build up
the shrunken walls of the kidneys and
prevent the formation of the Uric
Acid, Sold at soc box by Tallman &
Co. 623 Main ST.. Pendleton, Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28
WILL DIVE ON HORSEBACK.
Boise Girl VIII Leap Into Pool of
Water Next Sunday for 500 Purse.

Miss Molle Howell Stuart has
agreed TO ride the white horse be-
langing to DR.. Carver off the platform
into the pool at Riverside park next
Sunday. says the Boise Statesman.
She is to receive 500 if she sticks
to the animal and $50 if the attempt
is failure.
This animal has not yet dived here.
He goes straight down and it is
thought impossible for anyone to cling
to him, but Miss Mollie believes she
can do it.
AS a guaranty of good faith and
that she will be on hand and make
the ride Sunday afternoon, she has
deposited $50 with the Statesman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-09-28

The abattoirs and cold storage plant
of the Moran & Seigel company at
North Yakima burned. Loss, $4,000.
Fire started by sparks from the
igniting a roof dry as tim
der.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-23
TWO CANAL PLANS
Presented to Board of Panama Canal
Enqineers.

Washington, Sept. 21.-The board
of consulting engineers of the 18th
mian Canal Commission on Tuesday
devoted it's time to hearing an explana-
tion of the plans for canal which Mr..
Bunau-Varilla and Lindon w. Bates,
respectively have formulated.
Mr.. Bunau-Varilla was engaged on
the canal work rs an engineer under
the French regime and has given much
time to the study of the problem. Mr..
Bates is civil engineer of New York.
Mr.. Bunau-Varilla told the board
that under his proposed method ca
nal could be built and put into opera
tion within five years. 1t could be
deepened to a sea level canal within
five years more.
The novel feature of this plan is to
construct the locks from a foundation
below sea level. The highest lock
on the canal as finished first would
be 130 feet above sea level. With the
locks built down to the sea level depth,
the work of dredging the canal could
be continued without iuterrupting its
Operation for commerce. The same
locks could be utilized at every depth
until a sea level was reached, when
the locks could be taken out.
IhlS is regarded rather as method
,of treatment than a canal plan, as Mr.
,,BunauVarilla submitted no PROPOSE
ition as to the location of dams, or other
suggestion regarding the engineering
features of the canal.
The plan of Mr.. Bates combines
many suggestions which have been
made from the inception of the idea of
a canal across the isthmus 1t is es-
sentially different from that being
lstudied by the board in the location
and arrangement of the dams.
Mr.. Bates proposes to locate the prin-
'cipal dams on either side of the 18TH
mus close to the sea, thus conserving
the waters from the streams into two
mammoth lakes. He pointed out that
this would eradicate the swamps and
tend to revolutionize the health and
sanitary conditions on the isthmus. His
plan does not obviate the digging of
Culebra cut.
The board was presented with the in
formation as to every detail of Mr..
Bates plan in a pamphlet of nearly 200
pages of closely printed matter, ac-
companied with maps and diagrams.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-23
TURNED DOWN PARKER
WANTED MONEY FOR CAMPAIGN
President Mccall of the New York Life
Insurance Company Says Judge
Parker Was Persistent
Beqqar.

New York, Sept. 21.-Political con.
tributions of the New York Life Insur.
ance Company and the connection of
Andrew Hamilton of Albany with the
alleged political activity of the com.
pany were the points around which the
hearing before the legislative investi-
cation turned to-day.
President John A Mccall of the New
York Life Insurance Company was the
chief witness and for several hours he
was subjected to'a fire of questions by
Charles e. Hughes, counsel for the
committee, concerning the money paid
for political purposes.
The climax was reached when Mr..
Mccall declared that the soliciting OF
funds for campaign purposes was not
confined to the Republican party in
the campaign of 1904, and announced:
my life was made weary by the
Democratic candidates chasing me for
money in that campaign. Some of the
very men who to-day are being inter
viewed in the papers and denouncing
men who contribute to campaigns were
crossing my path every step l took,
looking for money. One man, the can
didate himself, Parker, If he would
show up his books when he was chair
man of the Democratic state commit
tee, it would give you a fit. He never
rejected dollar in the world. He
would take every dollar that was paid
to him.
F. Judge Parker was chairman of the
Democratic state executive committee
in 1885.
Mr.. McCalls statement was greeted
with wild cheering which continued
until a threat was made to clear the
room of listeners if the crowd did not
restrain itself
With great care the account of An
drew A. Hamilton with the company
was analyzed by Mr.. Hughes, who
asked Mr.. Mccall about every item and
made it clear that a search was being
made for political contributions.
Mr.. Mccall stoutlye maintained that
he had given Mr.. Hamilton no money
to be used in influencing legislation in
Albany, but the admission was OBJ
tanned from Mccall that Hamiltons
expenses at Albany were paid from the
company's funds and that his ac'
counts were not submitted to audit.
1t was shown that $4,000 had been
paid to Hamilton, with only verbal
accounting to President Mccall, and
that at present Hamilton owed the
company about 100000, but Mr.. Nc
Call said he felt sure that Hamilton
who is now in Europe, will repay the
sum upon the company's demand.
AS to the contribution to the Repub
lican campaign fund in 1904, Mr.. Nc
Call said he did not care how many OF
the policyholders agreed with his ac
ton. He made the contribution hon
estly, believing it was justified and
for the interest of the policyholders.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-23
Bryan Starts for Europe.

Lincoln, Neb, Sept. 21-Mr. and
Mrs. w. J. Bryan, accompanied by
their son and daughter, William and
Grace, leave to-day for their tour of
the world. They will sail from San
Francisco for Japan September 2Sth,
stopping in Honolulu for day or two
and expecting to reach Toxic about
October 18th. From Japan the Bry-
ans will go to Manila and will spend
some time in the Philippines. They
will then visit Australia and New Zea-
land and will reach India in the win
ter. They will proceed to the Holy
Land and other countries in order to
spend next summer in the large cities
of Europe Mr.. Bryan expects to be
gone not less than year.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-23
Always Staunch
And True

The Denver Republican has al
ways avoided the fallacies and
knaveries OF yellow journalism,
and its steadily increasing Circula-
ton proves conclusively that its
policy Of telling the plain Truth
without eXaggeration or misreprc-
sentation, standing fast for the
Right, is heartily approved with
growing force by the intelligent
Public to which it appeals.
To read it is liberal Education,
and the citizen who goes without
it does positive harm to himself.
to his family, and to the commu-
nifty.
In no other way can the invest
ment OF 2H cents per day
for that is all The Republican
costs any subscriber-bring such
rich results in that knowledge
which is both Power and Pleasure.
Information. instruction and en-
tertainment fill its columns and it
leaves a good taste in the mouth
of the reader.
1t stands for Law and Order in
the State-for Peace, Prosperity
and Happiness in the Home. #,
If you are not already enrolled
among its splendid list of Patrons
send on your subscription and give
it fair trial at 10 cents per month
for Daily and Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
SHOT DEAD IN SLEIGH.
Fate of Man Who Undertook to Haul
Stranger.

PIainfeld, N. J.. Feb. 3.-This Vi
cinity today is being hunted over by a
posse in an attempt to find the muir
derer of George Williams, young
grocer in the village of Watching,
who was found shot dead in his sleigh
on the road yesterday. Williams had
started out to drive well dressed
stranger to Warrenville and that was
the last seen of him until he was
found dead. The stranger has disap-
peared and no motive for the crime
can be learned. The mysterious
stranger said he was in a hurry to
reach WarrenvilIe and induced the
grocer to drive him to that place
Footprints in the snow, apparently
made by the man walking backwards,
led from where the sleigh was found
to the house of a Frenchman named
Pollock, whom the stranger said he
wished to visit. The house was ap-
parently deserted and UP to today Pol
lock cannot be found. From Pollock's
house footprints were followed to the
railroad station, where the station
agent said a man answering the de-
scription of the stranger had boarded
a train for New York without buying
a ticket. A posse of farmers is guard
ing the Pollock house awaiting the re-
turn of the F'renchman. The latter
bears a good reputation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
BOARD CALLED DOWN.
Senate Refuses Requests of Board of
Education for More Pay.

The senate went after the state
noon in committee of the whole by
refusing to double the total annual
expense account to be allowed the
board
The bill introduced by Senator Stew
art at the request of the state su-
perintendent of public instruction,
provided that: f"1he state board of
education shall meet at such times
and places as by them may be deemed
necessary, and transact such business
as may legally come before them and
examine all applicants who may pre-
sent themselves for such examina-
ton" and provided that the total ex-
pense of the board shall not exceed
$500 per amman. The present law
provides that the total shall not ex-
coed $500 per annum. The Iegisla-
ture of 1903 appropriated 5000 for the
board and the board has expended
that amount. This explanation was
made by Senator Stewart and also that
the superintendent of education
wishes the law to make such excess
expenditure legal.
In other words the board has spent
more money than it is entitled to-
said Senator Young.
The bill was amended to place the
limit at $500.
Il move to amend by providing That
NO member riding on a railroad pass
shall receive any mileage said Senator
Waggener.
Senators Waggener. Baker. Benedict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
A REAR ADMIRAL
or the Navy Gives Some Points on
Coffee.

A naval officer of all men has a
chance to become an expert on coffee
and when he talks about it, naturally
knows somewhat of his subject
A certain famous Cnow retired)
Rear Admiral whose name can be
given by mail on request, says:
Il have travelled this wide world
over from the Arctic to the Antarctic
and have drank the best cOfees ever
grown on this continent, or in the
East. made by the best chefs, and am
an expert coffee maker myself.
..Of late I noticed that there was
something wrong in my dietary and
that I was suffering from dizziness i'm
mediately after my coffee. I was be-
coming sadly constipated, something
unusual for me. I was averse to think
ing that coffee was giving me so much
inconvenience, but I thought perhaps
it would be best to reduce its strength,
but it made no percepuble change in
my feelings.
AT last thought I would venture
10 try Postum Food Coffee. a prepara-
ton that 1 often laughed at. as 1 read
tts advertisements. so I purchased a
email package. and followed the direc-
Gons explicitly and prepared my first
cup. I was surprised to find that so far
as taste was concerned it was all right
besides II ndQ q satisfactory feeling.
The next morning I found that my
bowels We're moved normally, and as
in days when 1 was younger and in
the prime Of life Next thing / noticed
that when I sat down to my morning
paper and later to my mail that my
head and mind were much clearer
than they had been for a long time
and I had no feeling of depression and
lassitude- No one could have made me
believe that a change from coffee to
so simple liquid food could have
produced such a rapid and marked
change in a persons condition. 1t is
now about three months since 1 be-
gan to use Postum. I have never
hankered after coffee. do not want to
see it. for I am in excellent condition
no constipation, no indigestion. no dfz-I
xiness, no dullness and in fact feel like
a new man and I attribute it to the
change wholly, and I may say that I
feel stronger than I did three months
ago and at my age, IS, strength is a
much needed thing, in short since I
abandoned coffee / am better natl1rad
better conditioned, and better pleased
than have been for a. long time The
experiment I made with Postum cost
me fifteen cents, the beneficial results
obtained cannot he calculated in dol
lars and cents. Tt takes a little more
time to make Postum Coffee than
ordinary coffee, but I count the Diff
ference in time as naught in com
parison with the benefits gained. I
think shall try Grape Nuts next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
SIX BUILDINGS BURN.
Work of Fire1nen Greatly Impeded
by Cold.

East St. Louis, ILL.,. February
g. - Six of the largest office and
store buildings here were de-
today and several persons were injured.
None fatally. The property loss is es-
timated at $3.50 600. partially covered by
insurance. Fire apparatus was sent
from st. Louis. The intense cold great
ly impeded the firemen. The principal
losses:
Josephine building, used for lodge
HEADQUARTERS, offices and retail stores,
erected at a cost of 800 900; Lucy build
ing, occupied by retail establishments
and flats S45 goo; Walsh building, $70,-
coo: Zigenhein building $4,000. Several
families We're driven out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-03
RUNS IN TIE FAMILY.
Son of a Suicide Shoots Himself in
New York.

New York. Feb. IA young man
dressed in evening clothes and who
said he was Henry Gavin, of Buffalo,
staggered up to a ticket booth in the
subway station at 1:45 today and
calmly told the ticket seller that he
had shot himself. When an ambu-
lance was called and while the sur
geon was examining him he drew
revolver from his pocket with the re-
mark, That's what I did it WITH
On the way to the hospital Gavin
said that he had tried to end his life
because the young woman to whom he
was engaged to be married had broken
faith with him.
Gavin is the son of a former super
of the Erie county peniten-
tiary who was prominent in politics
and considered well to do nearly
twenty years ago. The father COM
mitted suicide in 1896.