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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
PENDLETON LEADS PORTLAND.

Pendleton did not have worlds
fair to swell her postoffice receipts,
but she led Portland by over one per
cent in the percentage of postal re-
eeipts in the past year.
For the year ending June 80, 1904,
the receipts of the Pendleton postof-
flee were $13,S91, and for the year
ending June 80, 1905, the receipts
we're s16.515. an increase of 1888
per cent.
For the year ending June 80, 1904,
the receipts of the Portland office
were sS53.293, and for the year end
ing June 80. 1905, the receipts of that
office were s416,O52. or an increase of
but 17.77 per cent.
While this report Of the Portland
office did not include but one month
of the fair, since it opened on June /,
yet it included practically all the ad-
vertising and correspondence leading
up to the fair for months in advance.
In Pendleton there was nothing but
the normal growth of the community
to swell the receipts. Portland boasts
that she led the United States in per-
centage of increase in postal receipts.
She did not reckon Pendleton in her
comparison. Let her revise her boast
full estimate now, and bow to the
queen city of the inland empire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30

decision from the circuit court
of Boise City declares that the Sunday
closing ordinances passed recently by
the city council of Boise are strictly
constitutional and must be enforced.
Consequently the saloons must remain
closed in the capital of Idaho here
after-a far step inc advance for a
western town. But then the intelli-
gence and refinement of the west are
not to be surpassed anywhere in the
world so why should not civilized
laws prevail?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30

When Jules Verne wrote Around
the World i'm Eighty Days" the cor
morants and pelicans were customary
inhabitants of the movable wharves
about San Francisco's water front he
wrote with the license that is allowed
writer's of fiction. San Francisco never
had any movable wharves, conse-
quently there could not be as inhabi-
tants of such, cormorants and peli-
cans. Since California was admitted
as a state there have not been any
peicans in the bay of San Francisco,
and cormorants or ravens of the sea
were not known in this bay.-San
Francisco Call.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
BRANDED FOR DESERVING.

Robert McReynolds, formerly of
this city, in writing from Colorado
Springs, Col, tells of the fate of an
Evansville soldier during the civil war
that has never before appeared in
print, says an Evansville. Ind. dis
patch.
Alex Jordan was a young man liv-
ing near this city. the son of Jerry
Jordan, a well known plasterer. The
young man enlisted in the Union army
and after remaining in service a short
time, became sick, deserted and came
home. The news of Jordan's desertion
was sent to his regiment. then sta
toned at Murfreesboro. Tenn, and
he was Immediately arrested and sent
there to be tried by court-martial. He
was branded, according to the story
of McReynolds. A hot iron. made in
the shape of a letter ID, was used in
branding the deserter, and he bore
the scar until his death, which soon
followed.
Jordan came home and pined away
in shame for the terrible way in
which he had been punished, avoid
ing everybody and dying In a few
months Of broken heart. The brand
ing Of deserters never went any fur
ther. 1t was stopped short time
after this on an order from General
Grant, as he contended the punish
ment was too brutal. 1t is said Jor-
dan was the first deserter in the army
to be branded.
Jordan's grave is few miles from
this city and no soldiers slab marks
the last resting place of the man who
died from grief and shame.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30

The /. o. o. F. are building a 3d.
900 building at South Bend, Wash.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
BARRING LEGITIMATE PROGRESS

The railroads cannot expect the
mass of the people to feel kindly to-
ward them if they stand as public
barriers to progress. They must
take fair and equal chance and give
others the same, in the industrial
competitiaon Of the age.
The gag law won't work.
Three or four prominent instances
OF "the dog in the manger" policy
have been made public in the news
dispatches of the past month.
In the instance Of the north bank
road. an effort was made by an al
legged railroad" company to secure
all the land at the entrance to the Co
Iumbia river gorge, near Vancouver
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
THE PLAINS.

The Plains The shouting drivers at
the wheel;
The crash of leathern whips; the
crush and roll
OF wheels; the groan of yokes and
grinding steel
And iron chain, and lo at last the
whole
Vast line that reached as IL to touch
the goal
Began to stretch and stream away
and wind
Toward the west, as If with one con-
troll;
Then Hope loomed fair and home lay
far behind
Before, the boundless plain, the flerc-
est of its kind!
Joaquin Miller.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30

A railroad from Pendleton to Cam
as Prairie and Susanville, will check
the inroads of the Sumpter Valley on
Pendleton territory. This is mark
that should be set by Pendleton Com
mercial association, and nothing
should hinder or turn aside the agi-
tation until such road is complete.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
forms Of speech

Public ownership sentiment is grow
ing at a rapid rate and it would not
be surprising if Hearst is elected
mayor of New York city on an own
erhsip platform. The Chicago munich
pal election stimulated the sentiment
and nearly all of the larger cities
have taken up the cry for public own
ership, especially of the great utilities
so vital to the masses Of the people. 1t
is one of the populist 'vagaries''
which is forging to the front as rap
idly as did the initiative and referen-
DUN, popular election of senators and
other demands Of the reformers OF
the early nineties. If Hearst is elect
ed mayor on this platform it will be
a long step toward his nomination
for the presidency on a similar plat
form in 1908.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-30

The names of 100000 women are
on the petitions asking for the un-
seating of Senator Reed Smoot, of
Utah.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
sAoPLIFTER WAS SMOOTH.
Davenport Character Who Plead
Drunkenness Whom Arrested, 10


Drunkenness Whom Arrested, 10
Sentenced.
Special to Times Republican.
Davenport, Dec. 22.-Jack Hatton,
the first shoplifter of the present
Christmas season arrested by the po-
lice, appeared before the magistrate to-
day. and was sentenced to Jail for 80
days on a charge of larceny. Hatton
maintained that he was drunk when he
took the stuff and did not know what
he was doing
The officer, however, says the man
was a smooth one and did his work
WELL When first noticed he was In
front of a lot of combs. He picked
up several, then slipped all but one
up his sleeve, threw the one back in
to the tray, and then slipped the re-
mainder from his sleeve into his over
coat pocket.
He had several other articles in
his pocket when arrested. In the pile
were several pairs of pearl slug cuff
buttons, the two animal tape measures,
four combs. ring worth about 81. and
some personal property evidently not
stolen recently.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
Statement of Campbell-Banner-
man, the New Prerier, Causes
Much Discussion
NO COOLIES TO SOUTH AFRICA
The katfir Stock Market considera.
bly, Affected by the Announcement
of'New Poliey-Lord seIbourne May
Resign as The Result-Home Rule
for Ireland.

London. Dec. 22.-The announce
rnent of Premier Campbell Banner
man in his speech In Albert hall last
night at the opening of the electoral
mpaign that the government has
has given instructions for stoppage of
of Chinese coolies to South
Africa caused the Kaffir market to
open weak today. Conservative papers
refer to the step as being the most
serious taken by a responsible govern
lnent since the attempt to impose the
stamp duty on the American colonies"
The possibility of Lord Selborne, high
commissioner in South Africa resign
ing is discussed. The pren1ier's refer
ence to Indian affairs in which he said:
1--WE shall make ourselves q party to
no step involving invasion Of the sac
red principle Of subordination of the
military to civil authority" is taken by
many military men to imply either the
recall Or resignation of General Lord
Kitchener, commander-in-chief In In
dia, who successfully appealed to the
late government in his dispute with
the late viceroy, Lord Curzon, of Ked-
lesion. While the premier had little
to say on the Irish question conserva-
tives will take his announcement that
"those domestic affairs which concern
the Irish people alone and not us
should be in their hands," as a re-
iteration of the policy of home rule
and this will be the battle cry of the
unionists in the impending campaign,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
PUNCHES MuLTI-MILLloNAlRE
Mrs. NagIe Lands Knockout Blow on
Ex-husband's Jaw.

Philadelphia, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Agnes
D. Nagle, who is seeking to compel
Theodore M. Nagle, of Erie, multi-nlil-
lionaire and president of the Nagle Iron
works, to support her daughter, Theo-
dora Nagle, supplemented the court
proceedings by knocking her ex-hus-
band out by a punch on the jaw. The
episode occurred just outside the door
way of the desertion court, and those
who witnessed the incident say that
Mrs. Nagle swung out with the skill
of a trained boxer, and that the Erie
millionaire went down and out.
Mrs. Nagle has been after her hus-
band, who some years ago secured
divorce from her, for long time. Ev-
ery time her case has come up, Nagle
had succeeded in having it postponed.
Mrs. Nagle grew weary of this, bought
a punching bag and learned the
straight arm jab and the upper cut.
When The Nagle case was called here
she was prepared for disappointment,
and as usual, her trial was postponed.
Mrs. Nagle waited in the corridor until
her husband came out. Then her glow
ed fist shot out and landed squarely
on his jaw. .Nagle went down and
took the full count. Mrs. Nagle waited
smiling. Get up and let me hit you
again. she urged.
The Erie millionaire would not. He
lay with eyes closed, breathing heav-
ily. Then the watchman and lawyers
closed In and hustled the woman away.
.Tn glad I landed" she said. Il
nractieed that punch for four days"
Nagle is under $500 bonds here, and
must appear against next Wednesday.
n is said he will bring bodyguard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
open DOOR N
CHINA ASSURED
Treaty Between China and
Japan Opens Sixteen Ports
to Worlds Trade
MEANS THE OPEN DOOR POLICY
MEANS THE OPEN DOOR POLICY
Important Provision Is Contained In
the Agreement Entered Into Between |
China and Japan Today Carries
Out Policy for Which United States
Has contended.

Pekin, Dec. 22.-The chino-Ja Japanese
treaty was signed.today. The Chinese
commissioners say that the treaty re-
lates solely to the Manchurian affairs,
and that reports of Chino-Japaneses
alliance are false.
Washington. Dec. 22.-The most m-3
portant feature of the treaty between
China and Japan, signed at Pelkin to-
day, is the article whereby China
agrees to open to the worlds COM
unerce and trade sixteen principal ports
and cities in Manchuria, tncMdingi
Harbin. The state department Off
cials believe that this marks the sue
cess of the long struggle by the United
States for the open door.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
KNEW REPORT UNTRUE
Examiner vanderpool Admits He Knew
the Report of the Mutual Life lnsur-
ance Company in 1904 Was Not Cor
reot-Assistsnt Treasurer's State
ment,

New York. Dec 22--.Examiner VAN
derpool of the state insurance depart
ment testifying before the Legislative
investigating committee today, said ne
was aware that the report of the Mu-
tuaI Life Insurance Company to the
insurance department for 1904, was not
entirely correct. The report showed
no profits from the sale of ledger as
sets. He knew this to be untrue. Il
Stephen NJ. Smith, second assistant
treasury Of the Mutual Life produceda
statement of the net profits of the coga-
pany from sales of securities in Hc
past ten years up to September 80,
1905. This showed n net credit to the
profit and loss account of $12,826,00O.
exclusive of half million dollars Of
the international mercantile marine
bonds that were marked of the banks
in 1903. Chas. F. Preller auditor OF the
Mutual, testified he received quarterly
reports of those profits from the treas
urer and said 1t was the custom to
credit profits and charge losses on se-
curities to the profit and loss account.
1t was the custom to reduce the book
values of real estate and charg redye-
ton to profit and loss by instructton
of the president or vice president. The
figures of net profit were annually sab :.
mitted to the president or vice presi-
dent who would instruct what ad i
iustment Of the account should be made
and what amounts should be debited
to the profit and loss account by rea-
son of the reduction Of book values Ut
real estate. In 1904 there was
a net profit from the sale OF. securities
1,036, 900 and at the end of the year by
adjustment there was charged off $1,-
04s,O0O, so that when the account was
closed there was no profit shown frr5n
the sale Of securities, the book value
of real estate being reduced, So th.t "a !
profit was offset. Superintendent
Hendricks and Chief Examiner Van
derpool testified yesterday they never
heard that the profits of the Mutual
were greater than reported, and that
the profits had been used to conceal
losses. This line of inquiry was taken
today to bring out how this manipula-
ton of figures was carried out.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
ASK s1s,5oo DAMAGES.
Four Suits Filed Against Union Elec-
trio Company Of Dubuque.
Cnnnial 70 Tirnea. Renllhlican

Four Suits Filed Against Union Elec-
trio Company Of Dubuque.
Special to Times Republican.
Dubuque, Dec. 22-Four suits for
damages aggregating $13,5oo have been
filed by as many plaintiffs in the dis
trict court in which the Union Electric
company is the defendant. These grow
out of the accident in which ]. S. Nor
gan of the Smith Morgan Printing
Company with three others were injur-
ed. The plaintiffs and amounts asked
are as follows:
]. S. Morgan, $4,000.
DIR. j. TAYLOR. $1.500.
Florence E. Taylor $4,000.
Sophia Hemmingsen, $4,000.
The four We're in double seated
carriage on the night OF Aug 16, 1905
when the vehicle was struck by an
electric car coming down Hill street
and knocked into the ditch and the
occupants more or less injured. Aside
from the injuries alleged to have been
received and the amount Of damages
asked the petitions in each of the four
cases are the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
NEGRO is HANGED
Wife Murderer Arranses With Clergy.
man to Make Certain Signals After
the Drop Fell, If He Was Conscious
of What Was Transpirins.

Jersey City, Dec. 22.-Edwin ]. Tap
ley, a negro wife murderer, was hang
ed in the Jail here today. It was said
Tapley had arranged with a clergy
man to signal with his hands after the
drop fell to show he was alive and
realized what was transpir'ing. Tap
ley's hands did twitch convulsively,
but the clergyman refused to say
whether the movements of his hands
were like prearranged signals. After
the rope had been placed about Tap
ley's neck he said: Gentleman, am
guilty Of this crime, exceedingly gull
ty. I am sorry for it. She led me into
it by torturing me. am justly pun
ished.'' When the hangman stepped
forward to tighten the rope Tapl'ey
collapsed and fell to his knees. The
man was pronounced dead thirteen
minutes after the trap was sprung.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
SUICIDE BURIED TODAY.

w. B. Dewey Committed Suicide BY
Hanging, At His Home Near Abba.
Special to Times Republican.
Abba. Dec 22-The funeral of w. 3.
Dewey. who committed suicide by
hanging at his home, four miles SOUTH
west of this place, Wednesday, was
held this afternoon from the Friends
church. Interment was in Oakview
cemetery. When the body was found
by the deceased's daughter, life was
extinct.
Worry over the recent sale Of his
farm was the immediate cause of the
deed. Mr.. Dewey was highly respected
by neighbors and friends and his death
caused both surprise and regret.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
DESERTED HRipE-ELEcT.
Governor cumnins Issues Requisition
For Eli Springer, Now at Beatrice,
ia1 to Times-Republican.

Neb.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 22-Governor Cum
MINIS has issued a requisition for Ell
Springer, who is charged with desert-
ing his BRIDE elect a few days before
the date set for their wedding. SPRING
er is now under arrest at Beatrice.
Neb., and is to be brought from there
to Malvern, this state, where lives Miss
Mamie Foxworthy. who alleges that
Springer misled her under the most de-
voted pledges of love and matrimony
She claims that their wedding day was
set for last September, her bridal
trousseau was all ready, the invitations
issued and all preparations completed
for the ceremony. A few days before
the allotted time Springer suddenly
disappeared and he has just been To-
Gated at Beatrice, Neb. Now, instead
of facing the preacher at Malvern, he
will be brought before judge and
what might have been his honeymoon
will probably be spent in Jail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
TRY TO AssAsslNATE REYES.

RevoIutionaries in Colombia Fail to-
Overthrow Government.
Washington, Dec 22.-The state dee
partment has received inforanation
that an attempt was made In Bogota
Wednesday to assassinate President
Reyes as an incident to plot for over
turning the government. In conse-
quence there were many arrests OF
prominent men, who were to be tried;
by court martial yesterday Among
them was former member OF the cab-
met and five leaders of the opposition.l
The officials Of the Colombian les
cation expressed surprise at the news
from Bogota, as they state 1t is the
first intimation they. have had that
there is any feeling against President
Reyes Mr.. Triana, the secretary Of
the legation, said last night: I'M
II am at loss to understand the
reasons for any plot against President
Reyes. He is extremely popular and
during his administrat ton as president
he has made every effort to appears
the members of all the political parties
in the country. There is practically
only one party in Colombia now
though, OF course, there will always
develop elements N OppOSlSitiii III elAs
governments.
"The constitutional convention hello
some time ago made provision where
by General Reyes was to hold the of
flee Of president for a period OF ten
years, after which time it was to Res
filed by the incumbent for a period ofi
four years as in the United States
Any revolutionary movement against
General Reyes has no prospect OF sue
cess. OF this am confident.
IT had letters today from both Pres
ident Reyes and the minister Of for
eign affairs and there was nothing In
them to indicate evidences. OF dtssat-s
isfaetion with the government or the
formation of any plot to overthrow
it."
Colombian Minister Advised.
New York, Dec. 22.-Mr. Mendosa,
Colombian minister to this country.
who is in this country, said last night
he had received a communication from;
his government which did not confirm
the dispatch to Washington The
minister refused to make public his.
communication.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
PLANS TO SHIFT DIPLOMATS.
Important Nomination Will Be Sent to
Senate After Holidays.

senate ArteF T1OlIOdySs
Washington, Dec. 22.-Soon after the
holiday recess Of congress President
Roosevelt will send to the senate the
nominations of some important diplo-
matte officers.
Minister Lloyd Griscom of Japan is
in this country on leave of absence
and it is known he will not return to
Toxic Who will succeed him can not
be foretold. Minister Griscom will sue
ceed David E. Thompson of Nebraska
as ambassador Of the United States to
Brazil.
No statement has been made regard
ing the results of Judge Penfleld's in
quiry Of charges against Thompson,
but there are adequate reasons for the
belief that the charges were not s,ls-
tanned. Ambassador Thompson likely
will be nominated to succeed Edwin H.
Conger as the American representative
at the Mexican capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
MINISTER TO NORWAY
Herbert n. D. Pierce, Third Assistant
Secretary of State, Chosen to be First
American Minister to That Country.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Herbert H. D..
Pierce, third assistant secretary Of
state, has been selected by the presi-
dent as the first minister to Norway.
Charles DENLY, chief clerk of the de-
partment, has been determined upon as
successor to Pierce in the state de-
partment.
An official announcement has also
been made that David Thompson, for
mer minister to Brazil has been chosen
as ambassador to Mexico.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
German Who Had Saved Enough
to Buy Largest Farm in Mus
catine County Shot
ACCIDENTAL
SHOOTING
William cobort, While Killing Rats in
a Cellar, Fatally Wounds Himself
Second Daring Robbery in Dubuque,
Thieves Getting $500 Worth of Goods.
Other News.
to rimes- Republican.

SpeCIaI TO OI1meS-NePuUIICdH.
Muscatine. Dec. 22--William Colbert,
a German farm hand on the farm of
Clara Brandt, five miles northeast of
Muscatine shot himself while shooting
rats in the cellar with a shotgun. The
gun was accidentally discharged, the
charge striking him in the lungs. He
died few minutes later He has no
relatives living in this country. He
bought the farm with his savings a
few weeks ago. The Brandt farm is
the largest in the county, being the
one on which William ziegler, the
Arctic explorer and baking powder
millionaire was raised.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22

a strike on the railroads is occurring
today, and traffic is either tied up or
badly interrupted. Many passenger
trains were hauled to large towns be-
fore abandoned by the crews, in order
that the passengers should not suffer.
At Warsaw, the failure of an Inn
portant banking house, attributable to
the political situation, was announced
today
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
pr..;dent 10 Observe Holidays.

Washington. Dec. 22.-In accordance
with his custom President Roosevelt
will observe the holidays by making
no engagements to receive visitors or
callers next week, unless they have
the most urgent official business to-
bring to his attention.