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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19
INDUSTRY IN THE CAUCASUS
DEVASTATED BY RIOTERS.

While Russia has been fortunate In
settling her bloody and costly dispute
with Japan, the most lamentable in
ternal disorders in all her history
have reached a crisis of absolute an
archy throughout the Caucasus, with
record of thousands of lives lost and
injuries to her most important indus
try amounting to at least 100000
0O0-and this apparently only the be-
ginning, says the San Francisco sun
day Examiner.
The magnificent port of Baku-the
greatest oil producing city in the
worlds a tangle of charred ruins,
Great gushing oil wells burn day and
night dimming the sun and the stars
with their thick clouds of smoke.
Warehouses have been wiped out,
ships i'm the harbor reduced to shape
less bulks, the whole city paralyZed
by the mob rule of the armed Tartars,
whose feud with the rich Armenian
population has been secretly approx
ed by the local authorities
Within less than four weeks the
English companies engaged in the oil
industry alone have suffered losses
aggregating upwards of $4,000 600.
Because of their natural affiliation
with the usually peaceable and always
intelligent and progressive Armenians
the vengeance of the Tartar mobs has
probably crippled them beyond repair.
All this destruction of property. ma
tive and foreign, is due to political
in
warning elements of the government
are themselves responsible, and out
of which have grown the disturbances
throughout the whole of the Caucasus.
Baku. being the Immensely wealthy
center of the great Caucasus oil In
dustry. is the center of these disturb
ances. 1t is an important and we'll
built modern city, which, up to the
beginning of the current outbreak,
was surrounded ON every side by for
ests of derricks, the tall wooden scaf-
foldnFs that rise over the oil wells
The Tartar mobs saw that these
inflammable frameworks would in
sure the complete destruction once
the torch was applied. Not merely
for oil alone, but for naptha refuse,
which supplies the motive power for
the mills, railways and river steam
boats. the Baku oil fields form the
chiet factor in the prosperity of the
whole of southern Russia.
Now, through Tartar vengeance up
on the Armenians, owing to the gener-
al political revolt which the car
seems powerless to check, this factor
has been eliminated. There can be
no more prosperity for southern Rus
sla for months, maybe years to come.
For revival of these industries can
not come without assurance of ade-
quate government protection for those
who would risk their capital in build
ing upon the ruins of the last months
reign of terror.
The situation is infinitely worse now
! than last February and March, when
the Tartars and Armenians had their
first serious clash in which the streets
were filled with dead and wounded
and Paul Adamoff, the Armenian "oil
king" was killed on the balcony of
his house, which he had defended
for three days and nights.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19

. Why the ceaseless hurry here?
What's it all about?
. Seems to me it's more than
queer,
. When there's not a doubt
That the slow will reach his
bourne
Surely as the fast
Six feet three from gray earth
torn,
And life's anchor cast.
A. ]. Waterhouse. Z
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19
CASSIE CHADWICK AGES.

II is considered important as news
that Mrs. Chadwick, in Jail in Cleve-
lanl for frenzied female financiering,
has aged and lost all but her nerve.
The trouble with Cassie is that her
case came out too soon. If she could
have floated her credit until the
Equitable Life affair was sprung, and
John 4. Mccall testified before the
com nittee she would have seemed by
comparison a sound and safe finan-
cicr. When one reflects what was
missed by her falling to negotiate with
the great insurance companies of New
York there is a sense of loss TO the
world of something supergrand in
finance. She found country bankers
easy, but they were close -fisted and
careful, compared with the insurance
companies. which had millions to put
into any kind Of engraved or even lith-
ographed paper securities.
She has moved for new trial and
on many grounds she should have it
It is a mean thing to punish a
wo nan while men who did as bad Of
worse are living in country seats ant
keep a butler and coachman. She has
contracted consumption in Jail, while
her male companions in torrid finance
are touring Europe and contracting
piles of bric-a-brac and the works o.
old masters.
The time may come when Cleveland
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19

will hold her up as conservative
operator in her line, by way of con-
trast to the wild and runaway plung-
ers Of New York city
So rapidly do sensations and events
follow each other that people who see
her name in print viii now ask, who
is Cassie Chadwick" But country
bankers are not among them, AT that
name they chill. and even the close
air Of the sweat room" grows cold.
The limelight shines for others now,
and she is pining away in a dungeon,
waiting for death or a new trial to
save her from the penitentiary,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19
THE STORK BRINGS JOY

months preceding the
advent?
Too MANY mothers
find it u time Of fearful
anxiety because Of the
knowledge that they
are" mot in good health"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-19

IS THE MOST SATISFACTORY
FORM OF POWER IN USE TODAY.
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON. WE DO
THE REST. TAKES AWAY ALL
THE DRUDGERY, HEAT DIRT
AND DISCOMFORT OF STEAM
POWER. 1T Is NOT ONLY MORE
FIGURE UP YOUR BILL FOR
WOOD, WATER, LABOR AND RE-
PAIRS ON YOUR BOILER AND EN-
CINE AND THEN COME AROUND
AND GET OUR RATES FOR A SIM
liar AMOUNT OF POWER. IF
YOU ARE BUILDING DON'T FAIL
TO HAVE YOUR HOUSE WIRED.
QUIT CLEANING SMOKY OLD OIL
LAMPS, AND PUT IN LIGHT THAT
ONLY REQUIRES TURNING A
BUTTON. , . + r q =
IRONING DAY THIS WEATHER
Is LOOKED FORWARD TO WITH
DREAD. NO NEED OF 1T. WHAT
is THE USE OF HEATING YOUR
WHOLE HOUSE UP AND MAKING
A HARD DAYS WORK OF YOUR
IRONING WHEN WE CAN FUR
NISH YOU AN ELL CTRIC IRON
AND YOU CAN OPERATE 1T ON A
METER AT AN EXPENSE OF ONLY
FIVE CENTS AN HOUR. WE CAN
FURNISH YOU A SEWING MA
CHINE MOTOR AND 1T WILL ONLY
COST YOU TWO CENTS AN HOUR
TO OPERATE TT. ISN'T 1T WORTH
TWO CENTS AN HOUR TO YOU
TO HAVE A MOTOR ATTACHED
TO YOUR MACHINE. YOU CAN
DO MORE WORK WITH LESS FA-
TIGUE THAN IN TIE OLD WAY.
WE WILL MAKE YOU A FLAT
RATE IF YOU ARE A DRESSMAK
Err OR SEAMSTREEs. 1T WILL
PAY YOU TO LOOK 1T UP. COME
AROUND AND SEE US. + = =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

ested in the calves, and started for the
fence at a gallop. The fence itself was
rather flimsy affair, and | knew that If the
big fellow broke through it and got into
the road with the buffalo calves. there
might be most disagreeable mix-up. So
l started to urge the calves little, but as
they had already become somewhat nervous
az the demonstration of the steers, they
broke into a run and away we all went for
more than a quarter of mile before
thought 1t wise to swing the team round as
| had done before.
This time instead of turning neatly
about, they got their feet over the ropes
and becoming frightened, tore off down the
road again, in spite of all l could do. The
ropes were so tangled up that L could
hardly tell which was which, so L decided
to let the calves have their heads and run
themselves out. Holding the ropes just
clear of the ground, therefore, Jumped In
behind my pacemakers, and, as an athlete
would say, let them pull me through
Among the long, wet grass which grew in
the middle of the road, and through the
slippery mud which covered the sides there
of, we dashed, helter-skelter, lickety-split-
Once going down a hill l stepped on a
rolling stone, and 1 thought I'd been sent
for, but lucky jerk on the ropes straight
ened me up, and 1 found myself still in the
race.
Steep Hill Stopped the Race.
Presently we reached a steep hill and my
troubles for the time being were over. The
ropes slackened, the painting calves dropped
into a trot and finally into walk. and
after Strengthening out the ropes sat
down on a stone by the roadside and let
the tired little beasts get their breath. while
l waited for my assistant. who was toll
Ing bravely in the rear Almost immedi-
ately the calves began to nibble the grass.
and soon they were grazing steadily. which
seemed to show that they had only been
startled. not seriously frightened. And
when we started for home they trotted of
as calmly as any one could wish, and never
showed the least inclination to bolt, until
we unyoked them and turned them loose in
the pasture. Since then we have had them
out a number OF times, and except that they
still show q disposition to climb the fence
when We meet . carriage or other object
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
A New Explosive.

Vice Consul Stephens of Plymouth, Eng
land. writes about a new explosive which
1t is claimed will reduce climatic conditionsi
1T is reported that Messrs. Kynoch (Lim-
ited), one of the government manufacturers
of cordite, claim to have produced an ex-
plosive which retains the main constituents
of cordte, but which because of ingredI-
ents added will reduce climatic effects by
one-half. Instead of a round cord as in
cordite, a ribbon is the form of manufac-
ture, and II is claimed that this explosive
will not corrode the barrels so much as the
older form. that there is less friction and
consequently greater accuracy. Expert
ments have been made which show that
after firing the new explosive the deposit
does not injure the barrel If left in 1t for
some hours afterward."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
THE BUFFALO CALVES
GRADUALLY BECOMING ACCUS-
TONED TO THE YOKE.
Strenuous Work Educating the Team
of Wild Young Crea-
lures
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
AS soon as the new yoke was ready !
went out with my assistant to try Il on the
buffalo calves. which. as the reader will re
member, l received from Corbin Park some
weeks before First OF all, however, We
fed them a little, and they were taking
their milk, one from a calf-feeder and the
other from a bottle. we fastened ropes to
their halters. which they now wore all the
time
OF course we knew there would be some
fun when we tried TO put the yoke on
them, and in anticipation we led them to a
tree and coupled them together with our
stout two-foot stick. which had snap at
each end The long halter ropes were now
passed around the tree. and while my as
sistant held them fast / undertook TO ad-
just the yoke.
The agile little beasts did not like the look
OF the thing at all. and danced about. tug
ging at the ropes which held them. Gently
l approached them, and speaking to them
all the time l caressed them with one hand
while ! laid the beam of the yoke across
their necks with the other. AS | stopped
to pick mp of the bows / was less
watchful than 1 should have been. and one
of TIE calves, with vigorous butt. threw
tb1 beam OF the yoke against my face CIV
tag me black eye which would surely have
taken a premium at DonnybroOk fair In
half minute the ycke was on. and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
Historical Misprints.
From the Chicago News.


Croesus-he of the fabulous wealth-had
passion for dealing In futures and other
wise beating the flag. Hence he was a
good patron Of the oracle at Delphi. At
this justly famous information bureau the
medium IN charge derived her inspiration
from breathing certain evil-smelling vapors
that rose from the earth through a cleft in
the rock Being aware Of the length Of
Croesus' roll. she used to soak him accord
ingly for her services. One day when she
touched him rather harder than usual 1t
CHANGED that Croesus had previously made
a bad deal in Bithynian real estate and
was not feeling strong. So he remon-
strated. II am on to your game. / know
what 1t Is that puts you wise said he.
Its gas, just gas, and poor quality Of
natural gas at that. You. madam. ought to
be aware that some time gas will sell as
low as 70 cents thousand feet even in
Chicago" Nay, nay laughed the
pythoness. mot while the world maintains
a full line Of plutocrats like Croesus, {
your majesty and the courts to match.
Don't be a tightwad. And, besides she
added, your money Is already so badly
tainted that I hate to take It," Being. hit
in a tender spot by this final shot, Croesus
forked over hastily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

sight of my new team was worth all the
knocks which had lately come my way.
Driving the Buffalo Team.
At word my assistant UNFINISHED the
ropes from the tree and, taking one rope in
each hand, l proceeded TO drive my buffalo
calves. I soon found they needed little urg
Ing, but a great deal Of restraining. Bel
lowing angrily they leaped forward down
the road, dragging me In the wake. leaning
back on the ropes though l was. At first
] only walked, but my strides became long
er and longer and faster and faster until
found myself the tail-end of a comet. which
was going at a rate of speed rather too
great for my peace of mind 1t had been
raining. and the road was wet and slippery
and under the circumstances l hated to
think of losing my footing
The pair of calves which at that time
were about ten weeks old, weighed nearly
three hundred and fifty pounds, most of it
bone and muscle. and l weighed about
third of this, II was a physical impossi-
bility to hold the youngsters back by sheer
strength when they both pulled together.
SO l suddenly let go one rope and threw all
my weight on the other. The result was
what / expected; the calf I held on to
swung round to the right and the other,
being yoked to him. was obliged to swing
with him. Presently they came to a stand
still. headed for home, and | walked round
them, picked up my other rope and was
ready to start them up again. The first
mad rush being over, they were much calm
er, and. finding that the yoke did not hurt
them they logged along the road side by
side though they had done Ii every day
for years. But every time we came to a
gap in the fence they showed their dislike
for the road by making a dash for the
fields, and II required constant watchfulness
to prevent a runaway. Finally, we broke
them of this habit, by having my assistant
walk alongside and head them of every
time we came to gap.
Another Swift Sprint.
All went well until we were passing a
field in which number of cattle were graz
ing Among the lot were two big red steers,
which have a bad reputation here
abouts. These two at once became inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
AGAIN ENSLAVED.
The Man of Little Nerve Falls Vic
tim to the Brush Boy.

From the New York Sun.
II had thought to be free but l am again
enslaved" said the man of little nerve.
Lately" he explained. Il changed my
barber shop and 1 had made up my mind
that under no circumstances whatever, ex-
cept maybe a little something at Christmas,
would l ever, ever give cent to the brush
boy.
ut was a good barber. and I arose from
the chair pleased with him and with myself
and all the world-to see, standing there
back of the chair in which 1 had been so Sc
renely sitting, the shops brush boy brush
ing my hat. AS stood there he brushed 1t
and brushed it, and then he didn't hand II
to me. but carefully held 1t farther away,
with one hand, while with the other he pro-
coed to brush me.
"And, too timid to seize my hat and fee,
I stood for 1t and turned around for him
and let him brush, and-in short. fell.
so now my fond dreams are over and
am again enslaved to the brush boy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

really original engineer who was left in
the shade-because Of his and his an
cestors' republicanism.
Originator Of the Plan.
In any case, Thome de Gamond was ahead
of his times with the Suez canal He re-
turned to France and earned modest for
tune by establishing and directing a num-
Der of Industrial establishments, iron and
glass works. and then another idea ahead
of-his- times struck him. AS early as 1898
he began planning a tunnel from France
to England under the bed of the English
channel. During forty years he worked
upon it, How gigantic were his labors, not
only technical, but also with public opinion
and capital, may only be known by orig
inal historical seekers who will delve In the
mass of memoirs and monographs prepared
by and devoted to Thome de Gamond in
the French language.
Finally. in 1S72-3 he got his two compa-
nies-French and English-formed. and the
French parliament of the new republic &C
tually voted the construction as a govern
ment-aided and supervised public work.
The tunneling was Immediately begun, here
outside Calais; and 1t is this tunneing-or
rather the shore part of it-that any one
with a decent Introduction to the mari
time project has been allowed to inspect
during years and years past. With Eng
lishmen and ENTHUSIASTICALLY taken
for English-the old Waterman who acted
as guide used TO grow regularly pathetic
deploring British insularity and the tight
little island" scare that suddenly squelched
the so magnificent and useful enterprise.
Lord Wolseleys name came frequently to
his lips, for he was convinced that Lord
Wolseley was its sole and all-sufiicient
sluelcher.
Apart from the numerous big sheds con-
tanning lot of now obsolete tunneling ma
chinery and a lot of stationary engines,
trucks, dummy locomotives and piles of
rails that have been al kept pathetically
clear of rust, there Is little to see except the
mouth OF the tunnel itself. This one has
been allowed to enter for some distance. 1t
slopes rather strongly toward the sea; and
It is handsomely built, walled with smooth
stone, something like the Metropolitan I'm
derground in Paris. but higher and wider.
The ground is muddy; and a double line of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

steamer services, and their object In meet
ing was nothing less than the immediate
completion Of the long delayed channel
tunnel by which seasickness and the dan
gers Of the deep are to be abolished for
their public-and by which England Is to
cease to be tight little island.
1 think it is not generally known that the
famous tunnel already exists in part. 1t
was these works of the French end that
the engineers visited behind the before
mentioned high board fence, and which l
myself had the privilege of taking look at
some five years ago.
Since the year 1874 these works have been
kept piously in repair-as a nation tends
the tomb of one of Its great men: and for
thirty years, indeed they seemed to mark
the tomb of a gigantic French engineering
project and the best lifework of a great
French engineer who had the bad luck to
be ahead of his times. This was Joseph
Anne Thomas de Gamond, born at Potiers in
1907 and deceased in Paris in 1SI6-the one
and only victim of The Battle of Dor
king
Thome de Gamond was brought up in
Germany by his uncle. the sinister but gift
ed Thibaudeau, the conventional of French
revolutionary fame, exiled by Napoleon in
the beginning of his reign as consul The
nephew, however, was allowed to complete
his studies in France, passed his examina-
lions as civil engineer, and then started
off for Egypt with nothing less in his head
than the surveying and execution of the
Suez canal-this as early as the year 1873.
De Lesseps received all the credit, both as
originator and practical author of that
great transformer of the world S commerce:
and Thome de Gamond, then already d
broken and embittered man of sixty years,
was not even invited to the imperial junket
with which Napoleon III celebrated the in
auguration of the canal in 1867; but IL was
less IhOme
that was taken; and his partisans always
declared that De Lesseps received his origi-
nal inspiration and mass of information
of practical detail from the works of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29

| upon the roofs of big retail stores. The en-
| terprisins proprietors, following the Bib
| Heal injunction, have made battlements Cor
what serve the same purpose) for their
roofs, that none of the children may fall
from thence" and, In addition. nurses are
provided. free of cost to the mothers, to
keep watchful eyes on the children and
maintain peace among them.
Department Store Roofs Popular.
Indeed, so favorably do many city moth
ers look upon these department store play
grounds that even when they have no
| shopping to do they take their boys and
girls to these roofs and leave them there
| for the day while they themselves go call
| ing on friends or spend a restful eight hours
or so in quiet homes.
Many children who are not able to gain
admission to vacation roof school
department store playground find their
pleasure upon the roofs of the houses in
which they live. Looking out of his office
window the other day man beheld upon
fiat-house rocf three little girls taking
turns swinging III a rope swing suspended
from one of the several iron bars over
which the weekly washings of the tenants
are hung TO dry. They had their dolls with
them, and when they tired of swinging they
sought the shade of a chimney and there,
seated on a bit of carpet, played house
with ali the abandon of care-free childhood.
And ali the time the breezes were tanning
their cheeks and tossing their hair; while
in the street. where were hundreds of chill
dren, scarcely a breath of air was stirring
and childhood did not seem happy at all.
When night comes those school house
roofs that are fitted up as Fairgrounds be-
come places for open-air municipal band
concerts; the club and hotel roof restau-
rants do an even more rushing business;
and the various vaudeville roof gardens,
! charging all the way from twenty-five cents
to two dollars admission, color the sky
directly overhead with the glow of thou
sands OF incandescent bulbs These cleo
trical displays far outstrip the lighting
effects of the hotel roof restaurants, where
the aim rs not to satisfy the eye so much as
to please the stomach with summary
Viands,. while the upper currents gently
fan the overheated brow.
Fresh Air on the Housetop.
At night, too. not only do whole families
OF the poor climb to the roofs of tnelr tene-
ments. there to remain till morning; dwell
ers ia fashionable apartment houses seek
their vlne-rimmed housetops and sit chat
ting and doing under cover of the stars
J until late into the night.
More recently the occupants of single
dwelling houses have caught the fever for
| taking Whit of fresh and invigorating
| air upon their housetops, and In the resi-
| Dental sections of such cities as New York,
! Boston and Chicago many private roof gar
| dens have sprung into existence.
| These gardens naturally display the In
dividual tastes of their respective owners.
Some are vertable bowers OF blooms: 9TH
| ers are given over to woodworking vines,
| trained over trellises; some have awnings
| overhead: some artistically arranged cozy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
TUNNEL To ENGLAND
Reviving the Cross Channel
Scheme From France.
MEETING OF EXPERTS
WORK LAY FALLoW FOR OVER
THIRTY YEARS.
How It is Now Proposed to Overcome
the Engineering DificuIties-Tun-
mel Longest In the World.
Special Correspondence of The Star

Special Correspondence of The Star
CALAIS, France. July Is, 1905.
England is to cease to be an island. in
spite of the warning of the Battle of
Dorkng," and the greatest thing that has
happened to the city of Calais since 1874 oc-
Cured almost without notice one morning
last week, when half a dozen Englishmen
In tweeds met half a dozen Frenchmen In
high hats and frock coats behind & high
board fence in the suburbs.
The Engllshmen were civil engineers of
the London. Chatham and Dover and the
Southeastern Railway Companies, and the
Frenchmen held similar confidential situa-
tons In the great Compagnie du Nord
These are the French and English COM
panies who transport the mass of .passen-
gers between Paris and London by. way OF
their respective lines and common channel