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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
MORAL BACKBONE NEEDED.

One would think from the howl
raised by country papers in Umatilla
county that 40 saloons owned the en-
tire county-papers, officials and all.
When it is suggested that the law
be enforced at Weston, the Leader,
one of the most valued country cx-
changes in the entire state. screams
Hands Off" as if the cI-ut bu iccss
interests of the town were threatened
in the enforcement of the law against
one of two law-breaklng saloons.
The Athena Press has abused every
decent man on its subscription list be-
cause the moral element in that love-
ly country town had secured an order
to enforce the law against two or three
saloons. Do the saloons comprise the
entire business of Athena?
The Adams Advance says, Don't
touch the saloons, but let US alone; If
you try to enforce the law everybody
Will CuISS YOU anu yOu Will uO Ao
good"
Why don't these papers have the
moral courage to stand for the en-
forcement of law against the saloons?
Why do they cringe before three or
four miserable lawbreakers. in the
face of a decent and law-abiding COM
munity?
Suppose some merchant should hire
a "bruiser" and start into robbing
drunken men and boys in their places
Of business; suppose a poker game
should be started in a back room of
the dry goods store in open violation
Of the law. How long would it be un-
til these very papers would expose
this crime and demand that it be stop
ped?
And yet they hold up their hands
in horror If It is suggested that these
same crimes be stopped in one or two
measly deadfalls in their midst.
One would think that one or two
saloons were all the business to be
found in the country towns Of Una
tilla county, from the way the press
protects them and demands that the
law keep its hands off. Boys, 1t is
time for a little moral backbone.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14

there was q decrease in the cost of
living, 1t may be remembered that
the figures of that bulletin were rid
iculed and 1t was ccntended that they
We're prepared for political purposes.
Ii Is not at all surprising that any
report to be issued by the bureau of
labor at the present time win Sub
stantiate the bulletin issued by the
bureau Just before the last election, .
There are other elections.
But reports which undertake to
show that there has been a decrease
in the Cost of living will obtain but
small respect at the hands of people
who do not need statistical reports to
inform them upon n subject with
which they are entirely familiar.
If the average man Is tempted to
rely upon the reports referred to by
the Financial Age he can learn some
thing to his advantage by applying
to the average housewife.
1t is safe to say that any bulletin
pretending To show that the cost of
living has decreased will be "rldicul-
ed" for whatever purpose such bull
letin may have been prepared
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
HARRDIAN'S EARS BURN.

If it is true. as the old saw says
that your ears burn when people are
talking about you, there must be a
blue blaze about the ears of E. H.
Hartman since his visit to Oregon last
week.
Mr.. Hartman boasts that $3.50 0O0,-
900 has been expended on the UnlUi.
Pacific, Short Line and o. r. & n.
in the past few years for improve
ments and betterments, and yet Ore
gon, his best territory in the west, has
been neglected, held in bondage, re-
fused railroad branches, and made
subject to his arbitrary will.
Oregon has been a treasury for
Hartman, and for the o. r. & n.
before Hartman. yet the state has
been denied its just and equitabl =
needs by the Hartman management.
Instead of building branch lines into
the interior, as other railroads do into
tributary territory, it has forced the
producers to haul wood, wheat and
other produce hundreds of miles and
drive livestock, at great loss, from the
far interior to the very northern bor-
der Of the state to reach shipping
points.
All this is history No excuses
from Mr.. Hartman nor his attorneys
can make the past policy of the road
under his management appear just
and right in the eyes of oregonians.
If Oregonians now invite other
roads Hr1 tu~1 u us,uyss other ways
l-~. rrlwinau ;anu,, hold them to
account, for they are under no more
obligation to him. than ne has been
to them in the past. There should
have been some sort of friendship be-
tween the system and the people,
aside from a cold commercial game
which has been practiced upon Ore
gon.
Had there been such friendship
exhibited by the road in the past, 1t
might now expect reciprocal kind
ness and geniality from the people
but as it is, it can only expect to be
lashed into activity by an angry and
impatient public. which has enriched
Hartman from its labor while enjoy
ing but slight facilities from him in
return.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
WHAT ECKELS THINKS.

James II. Eckles, president of the
Commercial National Bank, of Chi
cago, i'm his annual review of the crop
and business prospects of the west
and south has reports from 100
banks covering the great grain and
cotton belt. All reports indicate that
with the large yields promised this
year the majority of the banks in the
west will be able to move the grain
with less help from the east.
Business conditions are reported as
excellent Figures on the wheat crop
indicate yield of 23 per cent over
last year, corn shows a gain of 10
per cent. oats show an increase of 10
per cent. rye increased to 80 per
cent. barley increased 13 per cent.
Cotton reports indicate a decrease in
acreage of II per cent in Oklahoma
to "a per cent in Louisiana, the aver
age being % per cent. Farmers are
reported as in most prosperous con-
dition. and business is better and
more satisfactory than last year.
Seventy-five per cent of the banks
report a good local demand for
money. Bank deposits show little
change from year ago, although
they have a slight tendency to in
crease. About 300 banks report ex-
tension of railroads and establish
ment Of new manufacturing interests.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
CHEAP LAND GETTING SCARCE.

The great demand for good agri-
cultural land during the past 10 years
has reduced the available supply In
the west to much smaller proportions.
and there is not much land left ex-
cept that which must be irrigated.
Texas still has several million acres
in the Staked Plain country which can
be bought around 81 per acre, but
this too has to be watered before it
Is worth anything for crops. Water
can be secured in many localities by
digging wells, but this means pump
ing, and the supply of water Is not
enough to irrigate very great area.
However, this country is gradually
being bought up and some day, no
doubt, there will be way of making
It very productive. The rainfall Is
greater in the Panhandle than It
used to be. and farmers are more
sure of getting n crop than they
were few years ago,-Chicago Live
stock World.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
THE CAMP FOLLOWER.

After every great battle, no matter
In what country, there is always a
miserable horde of vandals not brave
enough to be found in the ranks fight
ing, but which skulks onto the battle
field after the soldiers have poured
out their blood, and prods the wound
ed enemy here and there with a bay
onet, picks up their trinkets and gloats
over the field as no true soldier would
do. Always thereafter these camp
followers tell Of their part in the bat
tie and claim as much honor as II
they had fought like soldiers.
The utterances Of the Sunday Morn
ing Tribune reminds one OF this kind
of a soldier. After the East Oregonian
and the moral element have driven
the saloons from their former arro-
CANT and threatening position and
have put them In subsection to the
law. the Tribune, seeing that 1t might
be unpopular to take Jome kind OF
a weak stand. now that the principal
fight is over. says: "The saloons can
not become impudent nor arrogant
and protect themselves from the man.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
THE REMARKABLE PYGMIES
OF THE CONGO RIVER.

The existence of the pygmies of the
Congo is of the rudest; they do not
practice agriculture, and keep no do
mestic animals. They live by means
of hunting and snaring, eking this
out by means of thieving from the
big negroes, on the outskirts of whose
tribes they usually establish their lit
tie colonies, though they are rs un-
stable as water and range far and
wide through the forests.
They have seemingly become ac-
quainted with metal only through
contact with superior beings, and
their weapons We're formerly of wood
and stone only says a writer in the
Scientific American.
They live in little conical huts about
four feet high and four feet in diam
eter, constructed by thrusting withes
in the ground, tying them together at
the top and thatching with leaves.
Each man usually has but one wife,
the couples housing together in
single hut. but as soon as a child
leaves the mothers breast separate
hut is constructed for It, and as we
can imagine, some of these are alb
surdly tiny. The women are said to
be affectionate and make dutiful
wives, sometimes marrying into the
tribes of the larger negroes.
The dwarfs have no separate lam
guage of their own, but speak, rough
ly, the dialects of the neighborlnS
tribes of large blacks. Their intona-
ton is musical, the pronunciation
sharp and staccato. They learn other
languages with ease, and are admiga-
BILE mimics. They are fond of dancing
and singing, their songs being fire.
quently decidedly musical.
Their dances are extremely gro
tesque and ludicrous and are usually
executed to the sound of their one
musical instrument, a drum formed
from a section of hollow tree, COW
cred with hide. Their only aesthetic
ornament consists in having two holes
pierced through their upper lip, into
which they insert flowers, teeth or
porcupine quilts. While in the forest
they are usually absolutely unclothed,
but they adopt sufficient covering for
decency when they come into contact
with others.
The pygmies appear to be divisble
into two types, one with reddish or
yellowish brown skin and a tendency
to red in the hair, and the other black
skinned with black head hair. The
original type may have been the red
one, and mingling with the first ne
gro invaders have produced the black
dwarfs.
The black type is slightly larger,
the tallest individual remarked by
Sir Harry Johnston being five feet
high. According to the measurements
of Johnston or his assistants, the av-
erage height of the men Is about four
feet seven inches, while that of the
women is about four feet two inches.
The face is prognathous. the upper
lip long and not everted as much as
in other types of negro; the chin weak
and receding.
The nose is broad, the wings large
and prominent, the bridge very low.
The neck is short, the head sunk be-
tween the shoulders, while the legs
are short also; the feet large and
turned in, the great toes having a ten
dency to separate from the others.
The pygmles are fairly hairy, and
sometimes have boards of cOnsidera-
BILE length.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
NEW MEXICO'S AERA.

There are about 7S,000,000 acres,
or $4,000 square miles within what
is now the territory of New Mexico.
OF this a little over 52,O00,000 acres
still remains public domain of the
United States, 100000 acres are in
cluded in forest reserves and in Indian
and military reservations and 7,000,-
900 acres are divided in great tracts
or grants given by the Spanish or
Mexican governments to companies
or individuals before annexation to
the United States.
About 100000 acres, or 6.5 per
cent OF the entire area of the terri
tory Is called farming land and most
of 1t Is fenced in. The total area
under cultivation-that is, the area
reported for assessment is "improv-
ed land"-amounts to only 400. 900
acres, or about one and one-third
acres per capita. OF this Is, 900 acres
are within Indian reservations and
about 100000 acres are under irriga-
tion. There has been large increase
in the irrigated area, which was only
91,755 acres by the census of 1890
Denver Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14

dates OF responsibility in the way OF
Sunday closing, high license or even
prohibition. They must make good"
1t has not fought the fight for the
right, but has been allied with the
saloons in every phase of it, it has
sought to prejudice the minds of busi-
ness men against the East Oregonian
because 1t dared to stand for decen-
cy it has prated about representing
the taxpayers, when it has not paid
cent of taxes since Dodd took charge
of 1t. there being due from him to
the county today the sum of $156 for
back taxes for the past five years, yet
when it sees that the saloons are GER
tain to be put in subjection, 1t ventures
out of hiding far enough to strike them
covert blow from behind, in hopes
of making an impression with the
moral and law-loving element which
it has openly fought.
Even the saloons hate a fighter of
this sort.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
The Pope's solIcitous Sisters.

The poor sisters of the Pope Plus
y. are gradually seeing n cherished
hope disappear, as it becomes more
and more clear that the pontiff has
no intention of leaving the vatican,
at least this summer. 1t was these
good ladies who were enthusiastic in
the support of the idea that their
brother had need Of a change of air,
so they dreamed of going with him to
Castelgandolfo, living in the same pal
ace; in fact. taking UP anew the life
of Venice when he was a patriarch
there.
The sisters of the pope are really
much to be pitied. They are practl-
cally cut off from Plus Y. while they
have nothing left to fill the gap left
by him. 1t must be taken into con-
sideration that when they have done
their household duties. and said their
daily complement of prayers. there
are still many hours to be filled: and
as they neither read nor write this is
a very serious question
They are still in Rome, although the
papal palace at Castelgandolfo is open
to them, for the sentimental reason
that they cannot make up their minds
to leave their brother He has been
feeling the torrid heat very severely,
although his holiness is not i'll. and
they feel that in Rome they can go to
him at once IL necessary, but If they
leave Rome who is going to take the
trouble to call them II he is III? Their
apartment, which is charming in the
winter, as it faces south. is cores
pondingly warm in summer. so they
may be said to be suffering in what
they consider good cause. All the
same their influence is distrusted at
the vatican, as there is no doubt It is
on the side of breaking the so-called
prison" and the powers that be are
bitterly agai/st any such bad policy.
New York Sun.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
BLACK is NOT WHITE,

The Financia, Age says: "The
bureau Of labor has Just completed
an exhaustive investigation into the
cost of living, based on retail prices,
and is now preparing report on the
subject, which will be made public
late in August While the data have
not been fully compiled, and all the
comparisons have not ben made. the
present indications are that the fig
ures will show that there has been a
slight decline in retail prices for sta
pie food products during the last year.
This apparently substantiates the bull
letin Issued by the bureau Just before
the last election, which showed that
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14

Captain John Croome, for years
connected with the Philadelphia city
troops, has just been appointed chief
of the mounted police. The use of
the national guard for numerous out
breaks in Pennsylvania proved very
expensive. The present special body
of coal and iron police Is so unpopu
lar with Pennsylvania miners as to
be ineffective and large forces of
armed but unframed, irresponsible
deputy sheriffs, sworn in hastily in
an emergency, are found of little SER
vice.
It is expected that the new mount
ed police will prove as successful as
similar bodies, such as the Canadian
mounted police, the civil guard Of
Spain and the rural constabulary of
Italy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
PENNSYLVANIA'S GUARDS.

Lawless conditions in the indus
trial centers of Pennsylvania led the
legislature to authorize the creation
of mounted state constabulary like
the Texas Rangers. The new law
carries an immediate appropriation
for $425,00O, provides for the organ
ization and equipment of four troops
of mounted men, each comprising a
captain, lieutenant, five sergeants and
so privates, total, including the at
taches of the superintendent of state
police, of 230 men.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
w. T. PARKER
Dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries and
Notions--IIats, Caps, Boots, Shoes
and Farm Produce.

have Just purchased the d. b.
Richardson store at Helix, Oregon.
and am going to thoroughly remodel
II and greatly increase the stock.
solicit your patronage. and II good
goods and fair treatment can hold
your trade. then know you will trade
with me. Bring in your farm pro-
duce. Highest market price paid.
HELIX OREGON
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14

The city attorney at Kansas City
has filed information against George
w. Mayer. manager. and william
Shaw, local superintendent of the
Standard oil company, charging
them with selling coal oil and gaso-
line from short measures.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
LAND SCRn' FOR SALE.

Unr estricted forest reserve scrip fo'
sale at lowest market prices. N!
scrip secures title to tim cred, farm
ing. grazing or desert land. In an!
quantity without residence or i'm
provement Address II. NJ. Hamilton
7he Portland. Portland. Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14

Lone Fir cemetery, adjacent to
Portland, has been the burying
ground for all the Chinese of that
city for 40 years past.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-14
. ..........os.....

You may sit down and write, .
but you will not succeed .
If you haven't got something .
to say. .
You may follow your rhetoric .
closely indeed, .
And write a deliciously lah-de- .
dab screed, .
A really sweet gem in its way, .
But the stuff that you write will .
be foam without beer, .
Or chaff without wheat. which Q
were equally queer, .
And a man sans a head you .
will surely appear, .
If you haven't got something .
to say. .
A. ]. Waterhouse in San .
Francisco Star. .
Q Q D o o D . q q o
New-York tribune., 1905-04-18
THE RECORDS.
M rrlE6RAFH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

y-sshington. April 1.-THE Highlanders made II
,.,se stra.ent by defeating Washington here to-
6sy 70 10
townsend pitched a good game. hut the fielding
=, ne home PLAYERS was extremely poor and errors
-sre frequent Putnam twiTled for three innings
vhsn he showed signs OF widness and Clarkson
,s,k his place, and Was also hit freely. The cold
vssther kept The attendance down.
The visitors made two runs in the ,bir6 MIA,
Keller goi first on Cassdys poor throw. ana tslljed
o- E,berfelds three base hit. Anderson made
-so baeeeT and Eiberfeld scored
The home men tied IN score in the third. making
,5re, runs n lh5 fourth
Townsend got his base on balls and Jonas beat
olt bunt Both advanced on Hnl's sacrifice
SsM singled r. centre scoring Townsend and
Jones Hueisman singled. Stahl and HueIsman
worked a double steal, the former scoring on Nc
Cures throw 10 third which struck Stabl on the
shoulder
n the hfth ths Highlanders made four runs
Williams was safe on CasSidy's error ard then
STOLE second. Anderson walked. Williams stole
third and Anderson moment later stole second
Conroy walked, ali.as Tie bases. Chase singled.
scoring Williams Mcclure was safe on Sfsbl's
tT-ur. scoring Anderson and Chase While an arclI-
ment was taxing place over the decision .,onrov
New-York tribune., 1905-04-18
A PUBLIC SCHOOL INNOVATION.

One feature of the bond election last Tuesday
makes provision for an obvious necessity In the
public school system. The of $4,000 is pro-
vided for a building and the equipment of parental
school which is TO be the starting point in the effort
to restrain public school pupils who inclined TO
be incoriigible At the present time there is no in
termediate institution between the common school
and the detention home. Attendance at the latter
is absolutely compulsory and hence it borders
closely a penal character 1t goes a step too
far therefore the treatment Of class of pupils
who merely show inclination 10 waywardness
requiring something more than ordinary school dis
Ciplne.
The parental school will ill the gap between the
common school and the detention home Its most
important function Will h. the arrest of early way
wardness at the point of truanCy. The average
Younsster may show his or her prediction amena-
ble 10 such restraint as the parental school will
afford, but he she not have reached the
point where il is desirable resort to the deten-
ton hOme.-(Los Angeles Herald.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-18
SPLIT IN GLEN RIDGE GOLF CLUB.
Petition Started for New Organization
Against Sunday Playing.

Aontciar y T.. April \ tSpecisD.-The recent
snon n the majority of members Of the Glen
haEe Golf club ir deciding 10 play sunday galf
hss resulted in 7rlt in the ranks of the organ
ration Walter p Seymour. q well known mem
ier n the s"b anls opponent ~ Sunday playing,
is-ast started pet ION. Hiih view 10 forming
F47 golf club r the borough Among those who
FAVOR HeW rgarization are 1he Rev CeoIge l..
'fts pastor 81 the Presbyterian church: DIR.
"hism p br0ueht1n and others ~ eGual promi-
Isn.e ria fee' rhat the new move wiz meet with
ess 1ney rl-rE there are enough golfers in
ss4 hcs@ who da nor relieve i'm Sunday play
-s q stsrt club
prominent member n the clab who is also one
+. rs rt>. and vEn Is strongly ir favor o. Sun
~ s9- s.a th'- marni-g thar h. did nos believe
ett-l'... movement ~oHtc meet With success,
te asol tfaf the proposed 1rT club would
~ hsra work t0 obtain grounds To play OIL.
lt ~ grounds, said he 'twill he ap into lots
'-i4-iE purposes aHd part of IL has already
e'.-. 90 NOT believe lua- Mr. Seymour
sooll him r Goza. members The talk Of our
~ lriie cn tlf ware because We voted for sun
s gal ls aH hosa. for We are really gaining
strength faorE day.
New-York tribune., 1905-04-18
PARADE OF AUTOMOBILE CLUB.

The Automobile Club Of America has announced
the divisions for its annual parade April g. The
parade will form in lower 5th-ave. at 1:S0 p m. in
the side streets follows
Guest dvision-Fifth- east side, between Sth
ana 9Th SITS; Captain Homer W Hedge marshal;
pepnant color white and blue American gasolene
touring cars-Washngton Square East; Robert Lee
NorreU marshal: pennant color, blue American
gasoIene runabouts -Ninthst-. east; G a. Gillette,
marshal: pennant color. red. Foreign gasolehe
cars-Tcnti-st east; r. D. Birdsal. marshal; pen
nant color yellow Steam cars--Eleventh-st.. east;
Augustus Post marshal; peImant color. whlte.
Electric -Twelfth-st., east; A II W Nnltlns.
marshal; pennant color. green. Automobile CLUBS
'Tbirtee ntb-st cast A. r. Pardington, marshal;
pennant color. white and red
The route viii be through 5th-ave to hVth-st'' 70
Riverside Drive around the Claremont, south on
Riverside Drive to 72d-st. west to broadway so4th
10 I'oltlr1 bus-avc and dsband. The grand Inarslal
and The guests division viii review the parade at
72d-st. and Riverside Drive
New-York tribune., 1905-04-18
BROOKLYN LOSES AGAIN.
PhiLlies Makes 1t Three Straight
scith .SWperbas-ScOre 7 to !.

"ind and an occasional furry Of snow had no
e-lset IN stopping the game between Philadelphia
80 80 bnooklyn at Washington Park, Brooklyn yes
oereay- The visitors won by a score of : TO l.
making 1t third successive victory for the
Vuakers over Hanlons men
DoeseheF the home pitcher was batted out Of
'ne poN IN the NTH inning. Scanon. who took his
p'aoe' gave much better exhibition allowing only
MMoo safe hits for the remainder of the contest
49, seh ~ g"o out IN the NTH, Thomas sent out
Sse MI 10 left Gleason singled to centre scoring
O9Itloon ~, ana Thomas Courtney singled and on
-rttne. superoas' best inning was the niht, when
AlIuss two-bagger crossed the plate.
tneg made two runs on Two singles and two wild
pitches The score.