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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
Transcontinental Line is
Coming to Oakland

The Western Pacific is now AN as
sured fact. A syndicate of Wall street
brokers has agreed to buy $50, ,00O. 600
worth of the bonds of this company.
and this will complete the line from
Salt Lake City to Oakland. thus
achieving the aim of George ]. Gould
to span the continent with his own
lines, says the San Francisco Argo-
naut. Mr.. Gould has acknowledged
that the road is his and will be built
in accordance with his projects. When
finished, the system will be the only
one in the United States under one
control from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific in the north. In many parts ii
will parallel the lines of the Southern
Pacific, but according to many prom
inent railway men, by that time the
traffic will wholly have outgrown the
capacity of the latter road. The sim
cerity of Mr.. Gould is undoubted, and
he has resigned from the Union Pa
cific directorate on the ground that
it would be manifestly improper for
him to continue to direct the affairs of
a road which he soon intends to rival.
When construction will begin has
not been definitely settled. but it is
said that the line will soon be COM
pleted. and service between Baltimore
and San Francisco installed.
AS a result of Mr.. Gould's resolve to
build his own line to the Pacific, the
Union Pacific has voted to issue an
additional S1O0.O0O,OOO of preferred
stock. While the board of directors
have not stated the purpose of this
increase, 1t is assumed I'm financial
circles that 1t is to build the great
projected tunnel through the Sierras.
and to carry the direct line through
to the Atlantic seaboard from Omaha.
A broad estimate of the expense of
the tunnel is $2O,000.0OO, which will
leave some $SO,OOO,0OO for construc-
tion of the eastern line and feeders.
The holding by two traHscontnent-
al lines of through tracks from coast
to coast marks new era, IL is assert
ed by railway men. IN the railway
business. 1t means that. following
the example of the Western Pacific
and the Union Pacific, all cross-conti-
mental roads will have to build
through lines in order to compete at
all with the Gould and Hartman
lines. The Western Pacific is al
ready under way, a party of engineers
being now in the field ahead Of the
graders
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
Osteopathy
De We Claim Too Much? ?

We Osteopaths are accused by our
medical friends of claiming too much'
for .Osteopathy. Possibly we do, but
having repeatedly proved its merits,
our judgment on the subject should
be OF more value than that of those
who have not done so. To all such
we can but reply in the words of
Newton, who. when ridiculed concern
ing his theory of gravitation. said:
"Sir, have investigated these things;
you have not"
Though all the common diseases,
acute and chronic. infectious and nom
infectious, have been treated 0sbeO-
pathically, with the most encouraging
results-it does not claim to be a cure
ALL
II it possessed but a small part of
what is actually proved of 1t, it would
yet rank as the greatest contribution
to medical science. For medicine, es-
pecially in chronic ailments, offers
nothing more than temporary relief
while Osteopathy, directing its efforts
at the primary cause of disease, dares
to offer, not only relief, but cure.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

amount OF just taxes needed to con-
duct the affairs of the city.
He calls attention to the street
numbers and arc lights erected all
over Portland by reason of these col
lections from the gamblers, but he
fails to mention the desecrated homes,
the needy mothers and children, the
immortality and vice visited upon
Portland by opening its doors to the
gambling element.
The rich and respectable property
owner who has raised rents month
after month, thus increasing the cost
of living. has escaped paying a paltry
tax. it is true, for the city of Port
land has received toll from the gam
bier and the gambler takes his toll
from. the workingmap's family. the
ignorant boy and the gullible laborer
who is entrapped by the booster. The
owner of the brick block has escaped
paying a measly tax. but he has been
a partner of the gambler in taking
the earnings from the poor and with
him the God of Justice will deal in
future.
Mayor Williams argument and pol
icy is unsound from the beginning. He
boasts that he has secured $4,000
from the gamblers that the city would
not have had otherwise. This $4,000
represents perhaps 100000 that has
been taken from legitimate circula-
ton by the gambler, to say nothing
of the untold suffering the process OF
taking it has caused to innumerable
families.
1t is guilty blood money, wrung
from the pockets of needy families
through the medium of the gambler
and turned over to the would-be re-
spectacle city that the rich landlord
may escape a paltry burden of taxes
although his enormous income is in
creasing daily. 1t is a false theory
from beginning to end and Williams
knows 1t is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
DEMAND MORE RAILROADS.

When the Willamette valley section
of the Oregon Development league
meets at McMinnville, on June 9, it
should demand of Oregon railroads
that branches be built into the inter-
ior, to release the rich resources and
opening up the vast sections that are
now practically idle, except for the
scanty livestock industry maintained
there.
If the league will get out of the ex-
cursion train stage and begin to do
actual things, the people will have
of Oregon.
Heretofore, before the Pendleton
meeting at least, it has been devoted
to agitating excursions for railroads
and crowds for Portland hotels, and
people who have been actually inter-
ested in seeing Oregon develop, have
had but little confidence in it.
1t can establish itself in the hearts
of Oregonians, if it will get out of the
picnic stage and begin to make de-
mands upon railroads, regardless of
the delicacy of the annual pass ques-
Z tion. It can do world of good in
Oregon, if it only calls attention OF
outside capital to the vast idle re-
sources in the interior, and by invit-
ing outside capital to build into the
state and take what is awaiting the
e "early bird"
Let us have railroads from Ontario
across the state to the westward, and
from Arlington southwark. The
Shaniko branch road paid from the
day the first carload was shipped out
The Condor branch will pay hand
some profit from the very first freight
train that runs over it, The Dalles
Dufur branch will be a money-makei
from the first and the Sumpter Valley
is notorlously the most profitable rail
road investment in the entire InlanC
Empire. The Elgin branch is also
money-maker and one of the oes
ventures of the o. r. & n.
Business is already awaiting rail
roads. True, they are not charity af
fairs, giving up their effort and casi
that countries may be developed, bu
all over oregon are rich valleys tina
will enrich the railroads, from tn
first and the railroads are guilty o
holding back further development b.
corralling such districts and refusin
to build or let another build. Let tn
league get after the railroads. Thi
is the only truly logical mission OF IN
league in Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

We chaperon our girls and careful-
ly guard them against unworthy boys,
but we leave the boy to choose for
himself his associates and his achieve
ments. says the Milwaukee Journal
Girls are naturally winsome, gentle,
companfonable. They win their way
in homes and hearts. But the boy.
noisy, awkward, mischievous, is in
vited into few homes and feels none
too much at home in his own. About
the only door that swings with sure
welcome to the boy, about the only
chair that is showed near the fire es-
pecially for the boy. about the only
place where he is sure of cordial
greeting is-where he ought not to
go. It is one of the hardest things
in the world to get hold of a boy
to get a sure grip on him. He is hun
CRY for companionship and he will
have it. You can't chain him away
from it. He wants the companionship
of boys, and nothing will take its
place. If the rime of selfishness has
so encased your heart that the joys
and hopes of your boy cannot enter
into it, the boy is to be pftied, but SO
are YOU.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
MAYOR WILLIAMS DEFENSE.

Mayor Williams, Of Portland, has
broken the long silence and has made
a defense of his administration and
his policy as chief executive of Ore
gon's metropolis.
He unquallfledly condemns every
man and movement that has opposed
him and brands the ministry and the
press as liars and scoundrels without
principle or honor, and boasts that
his policy of going into partnership
with the gamblers has netted the city
$50, 900 in the past two years, which
policy has permitted the rich land
lords and owners of magnificen'
blocks in Portland to escape thii
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
NO cHLoRoFoRM FoR THESE.

Claiming Pollock. of the Shubert
forces, has made up list of actresses
in the Osler period. Here 1t IS;
Lillian Russell. As years; Fay Tenn
pleton. AS; Isabel Bateman, 81; Kate
Bateman, SO; Sarah Barnhardt, 61;
Agnes Booth. So; Kate Claxton, 81:
Rose Coghlan. So; Effle EIsler, AZ;
Rose Eytinge. IS; Nine. Gerster, AS;
Mrs. Kendall. 56; Mrs. Langtry, SO:
Maggie Mitchell, 73; Nine. .ModjesKa
61; Clara Morris, SO; Nine. Nordica,
Al; Ada Rehan, As; Nine. Sembrich
A.; Annie Yeamans, SO.
Pollock has applied for a vacation
New York World
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

Since the Athena Press started its
semi-weekly issue, it has grown to
be one of the best country exchanges
coming to the desk of the East Ore
gonian. 1t is newsy, we'll made up
geographically and progressive. and
reflects the spirit and energy of the
wide-awake town which it so ably
represents and defends. The East
Oregonian hopes to see other Umatilla
county weeklies advance to the semi
weekly stage, as the Press has done.
Every community in Umatilla county
deserves a live paper and the East
Oregonian is not so selfish nor mar
row as to wish to cover the field alone
and exclusively. While it goes in
large numbers to every pOstoffice in
Umatilla county. and is constantly
increasing it's circulation in umex-
pected places, it delights to see the
other papers in the county thrive and
expand. 1t speaks volumes for the
progressive spirit of the people of the
county. No other county on the Pa
cific coast can boast of eight as large
newsy, progressive weeklies as Una
tilla and the East Oregonian wishes
them well and hopes they will all be
semi-weeklies before another yeal
/ opens
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24
LAND, SCRIP FOR SALE.

Unrestricted forest reserve scrip for
sale at lowest market prices. My
scrip secures title to timbered. farm
ing grazing or desert land, In any
quantity, without residence or i'm
pTovemenk Address H. M. Hamilton,
The Portland. Portland. Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

Raynor-Your wife speaks several
languages, doesn't she?
Shyne-Four - English, French,
New Thought and Henry James,
Chicago Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

The Seventh Day Adventists will
hold a campmeeting from May 25 till
June 4, at Moscow, Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-24

The man who looks at the world
through self always has a blurred
vision
The Washington times., 1905-07-30

woman, rather inclined to be coquet-
tish, two things most unusual among the
Saghalien women. Also. which was
equally unusual. he found her cottage
quite clean and orderly. He was de-
lighted that it gave evidence of the re
cent use of soap and water. He found
later that q few hours before his visit
she had killed her Saghalien husband" ."
being tired of him ana having a second
and more attractive string to her bow,
cut him up in small pieces and distrib-
uted him through the forest, where he
had been working as a wood cutter
leaving 1T to the wolves to solve that
problem of all murderers, that of dis
posing of the remains. They solved il.
The cleanliness of the cottage on the
occasion of DR.. Howard's 5 visit. however,
was due to her well directed efforts at
removing the marks of her crime 1t
was discovered. of course. for the man
was missed. and had 70 be accounted
for, No man can disappear in Sakhalin
without the authorities investigating the
thing pretty thoroughly
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
zone Hundred Strokes of the Knout.n

| DR.. Howard is probably the only
traveller who has ever been permitted to
witness the execution of a sentence OF
| 100 strokes of the knout He is GER
tainly the only one who has given US an
eyewitness account if it, lie was Wis
| iting the governor of Sakhaln. The
| prison surgeon was new man and
nervous at the responsibility. He
| begged that DR. Howard might be al
lowed to share it with him. and the
governor, albeit unwIlIingIy. consented.
Together they examined the man to be
punished. and DR.. Howard agreed with
the local surgeon that the prospective
victim was suffering from no organic
disease that would be likely to cause his
death under punishment. He declined
to express any opinion as to whether or
not the man could stand it. inasmuch
as he was unfamiliar with the penalty
and did not know how severe it might
be. SO the sentence was carried out,
and DIR. Howard was witness thereto.
This Is how he describes it;
The punishment was inflicted in a
| sort of an clubhouse. or pavilion. on a
| hilltop near the prison. 1t was a bare
boarded affair. with a dirt floor. 1t CON
! tanned q large. low rather narrow. and
| very solid looking bench or table about
| IA inches high, having in its top pairs
| of slit-shaped perforations. This was
| the kabyla, OF mari. that is, the ffogging
/ table
| The prisoner laid himself fun length
! upon it as directed. and was immova bly,
| secured to 1t by straps passed through
the perforations. About eight PAGES in
front of the head of it stood the cor
| p0ral's guard which had brought him
| in. the governor. the prison surgeon.
| and Dr. Howard. At different open
] doors and windows were crowded the
| heads OF many convicts, who were ex-
| pected to profit by the salutary example
! of the spectacle. The eXecuti0ner came
! in, tall, stalWart man. carrying what
| looked like short handled, Iong-lashed
bullock whip. drawing the thongs
through his fingers and disentangling
them as ne came. He staiked three or
four PAGES from the kabyla, on its
right, marked the distance with his
heel, and wheeled around like a sol
der Planting his foot firmly on the
marked spot, and raising his hand as
high as he was able. with a clever
wrist motion he sent the thongs swish
ing backward and forward with a hiss
like d mimic bullet. Slightly changing
his position he repeated this two or
three times, without, however. allowing
the lash to touch the prisoner. He was
simply measuring his stroke.
Fixing himself with extra firmncss in
his latest position. the executioner skill
fully kept his lash poised in the air as
an eagle poises when about to dart on
it's prey. Fully assured now of his
accuracy, he shot a swift and impa-
tient glance at the governor, who, ac-
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
Island Officials Have
Hardened Murderers
as Servants.
LaWlessness Flourishes,
and Life IS a Cheap
Commodity.
No Death Penalty for
Convicts Who Murder
One Another.

n THE Obotsk sea. north of Yezo.
the largest and northernmost of
the Japan islands. and separated
from it by La. Perousse strait, and
east of Siberia, separated from it by
the gulf and strait of Tartary, is the
island of Saghalien, or Sakhalin. Al
least. that is what the maps cali it.
Among the people il is called Ostrov
ProkIyatuick, or isle of the Lost" Il
is Russia's substitute for capital pun
ishment Since. excepting only for
treason, actual or suspected, Russian
law permits no executions. it is there
that the Russian authorities send male
factors who are better "out of the
wcrId "
It is not a place for political prison
ers. At least. political prisoners are
never sent there in the first instance.
If, by chance. political offenders driven
mad by the conditions of life in the
prisons or mines at Jrkutsk. or Nertch-
insk. Vladivostok or NicoIaivsk, attack
their guards or one another. they may
by crimes of violence or by repeated al
tenpts at escape become candidates for
SaghaIIeu- Under such circumstances. il
prisoner No. 81 and prisoner No. SO miss
prisoner No. IS they whisper the one to
The other. "OstFov PCoklyatuick. and
wonder. if they do not happen 10 know,
what No. IS did 20 bring that fate upon
himself
For the mere mention of Saghalien is
enough 30 Cow the most unruly in any
one of the other penal settlements OF
Russia. II is the place where the most
desperate and Imbruted of the Russian
conTiets are sent. hardened criminals.
murderers and the. like And it is the
place where they finally send the off
scourings OF the prison system OF ST.
bcria Thithcr. too. they send the
"Brodyas." the professional runaways
VINO escape with no desire to get out of
Siberia entirely. bur who remain in IL
10 prey on travellers and other refugees
during the summer and give themselves
up IN winter that they may have the
shelter and the food which The prisons
afford. To a certain extent these Brod-
yas are merely Siberian tramps but
like our American tramps some of them
are incorrigibly vicious and can be the
most craven Of beggars or the most
cruel. of murderers. according 10 cir
=cumstances When hard pressed they
stop at nothing. and during the open
season. the summer (when. according
to Stephen Bonsal, 'the heat IS terrific
and the mosquito untiring. and there is
not enough ice IN The great lone land
To cool a mint juiep'-which is not at
all the popular conception Of Siberial,
they are the brisands OF Siberia. infest-
ing its highways and byways. robbing
and numbering any who are helpless
enough 10 meet them and weak enough
TO be easy victims. When the authori-
ties can convict such q one he. too, is
sent out of the world
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
Murder Was @Passed Up"

Nothing was done about it. There was
no use of a trial. since the woman con
feSsed and the facts needed no estah-
fishing. There was no place for her in
prison, and keeping her would only be
an expense to the government anyhow
They could not fog woman for trife
Of that sort, they could not execute her
So she stayed in her nice clean cottage
and annexed new husband. and things
went on a usual
1t is the scarcity of women probably
that accounts for this lenicncy. and Ger
tainIy IL is their scarcity that accounts
for the servant problem that makes
the lives of the officials wives there a
burden. 1t would not be pleasant under
any ciFcums tauces 10 know that all
ones house servants were criminals
the majority of them murderers. But
in Sakhalin it is only the .Ieavines"
of the convict women that become house
servants. In the first place no woman is
condemned TO SakhaIin, except as a
last resort. Those that come are for the
most part unpreposscssing as to per-
son, and unpleasant as to character.
And the best of them-that is the least
Objectionable. the least suIlen. those who
are least repulsiye in appearance. and
SitpH tttiS3t4l|tt signs OF approximate
human intelligence and decency of dis
position. are more pleasantly provided
for than in domestic service. They
acquire homes and husbands" In short
order. So it is only the worst of a
mighty bad lot that become servants.
And these have not even the negative
virtue of cheapncss. An officials s
wife asks for a servant and she is as
signeu one of these unpromising speci-
mems. lives more or less at her mercy.
and pays a wage fixed by the govern
mert. No earthly use making a change;
they're "all of a piece"-and all Of a
price-and not worth it.
AS has been shown. punishment prac-
tically does not exist on the island. 80
far as the women are concerned. And
even for the men the puGshments are
very limited Only one person has ever
been hanged. and that was for the
murder of an official. The Killing Of a
feilow-convict is merely murder, and is
dealt with according TO the cfrcum-
stances. The killing of an official is
treason, and the price of treason IS
death.
Fights among the convicts are. of
course. Of frequent occurrence, and for
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customed TO the signal sternly gave
the final word of command At least.
he commenced to give it, but before the
word was fully out of his mouth it was
completely drowned by the shrieks and
yells Of the cuIprit, above which one
could just catch the voice Of the ex-
| ecutioner as he shouted loudly and de-
liberately ''N~u-m-ber onet'' answered
by the marker. as he repeated and re
corded it.
Having once started the executioner's
| strokes were as steady. as rythmicaI. as
precise a if done by a steam engine
and as unrelenting. Such was the pre-
cision of them that at the end of the
| fifth there We're exactly fifteen lines
scoring the buttOcks as evenly as II. they
had been marked with a piece of chalk.
Their force so completely expelled the
blood from the surface that with chalk
the lines could not have been made
whittier BY the wrist maneuver the
blows were applied with such carefully
i graded force that at the end of the first
stage the part already attacked looked
as If covered with an even sheet of white
paper.
| UD to this point. or about the twenty
fifth stroke. 50 violent were the attempts
,
death from suffocation seemed as likely
as from the fiogging itself. The second
stage commenced and the blood began
to flow. and as this proceeded more and
more freely the prisoner seemed to come
to life. AS a spectacle this was the more
horrible part Of the punishment. though
for the victim it was much the less
painful At every blow. each OF the three
knout-ended thongs, like the claws and
beaks Of yulture. pecked out fragments
of dripping flesh. which We're scattered
in all directions by the swinging lash. To
avoid them the officers, who were in
white uniforms, had TO step back and
| back for a considerable distance.
After the skin of the side attacked had
been completely detached and scattered
the screams of the poor wretch subsidized
| into groans and sobs. The excavation.
now about the size and depth of Il soup
plate. beinV filled with overfiowing blood
which poured over the edge of the table,
the force of the blows was much deaden-
ed. The deeper and deeper the plowing,
the less and less was the pain.
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
The saghalien Servant Problem.

For the rest, those whose lawful
spouses will not Join them form such
alliances as they please. They estab-
lish themselves in their homes, and
maintain them in the main in as or
derby and Well regulated fashion as if
they were legally married. And the
government looks the other way, sat
isfied on the whole that its charges are
more likely TO be content, less likely
TO make trouble, and If they are allowed
to fern the usual human ties. more
likely to behave like ordinary human be
ings, and to cast off the character of
convtcts and assume that of colonists.
The women in SaghaIien have an easy
and, barring the fact that they have to
stay there. a pleasant time, at least
the convict women do The wives of
The officials don't They have q servant
problem to wrestle with which beats the
ordinary servant problems Of civiliza-
ton all hollow But for the convict
women there is easy work and practi-
caliy TO punishment for local crimes
They may be sentenced, but II the SEN
tence is carried out at all II is with so
much consideration that it amounts to
ii mere formality.
DR. Benjamin Douglass Howard, an
American physician OF standing, and one
OF the few foreigners. if not the only
one. who has ever really penetrated Sag
named Lobanoff, whose cottage he Wis
ited in the course of his wanderings over
the island. She was rather a handsome