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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
Interior Telephone Line.

The State Central Telephone Co.
has commenced the construction of a
telephone line from Prineville to
points in the Haystack country. The
work is being promoted by Postmas-
ter Summers who promises an early
completion of the line. This will be
the first telephone connection to be
given to the district in question:
Prineville Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
ENLARGED TUNNEL
O. R. 4 n. WILL REPAIR TUN-
MEL NO. 4 AT MEACHAM.

Hole in the Mountain VIII BE Made
Higher and Wider and New Log
ging VIII BE Put in Place-EffOrt
VIII BE Made to Build a Temporary
Track Around the Point of the Hill
Work of Engineer Mix is Now
Shown to Have Been Correct.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
Hotel Bickers.

Mrs. w. Smith, Echo.
Mrs. E. Kippinger, Adams.
]. T. Thorp and wife, Dayton.
j. H. Robertson.
w. WI West, city.
c. A. Reeder and wife, Athena.
E. E. True, Spokane.
Charles Isaacs, Portland.
H. Nichols, st. Louis.
Joe n. Scott, Athena.
George ]. McEvoy, Starbuck.
F. ]. Allison, Starbuck.
Sol Lemery, Adams.
S. p. Florence, Heppner.
Ferth d. Taylor, Bingham.
j. A. Dunlop and family, Walla
Walla.
X. McRae. Helix.
John Molstrone, Centerville.
A. c. Ruby, Eugene.
S. A. Evans, Eugene.
II. F. Deardorff, Oakland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
Coming Attractions at the Frazer.

The next attraction at the Frazer
will be "Uncle Toms Cabin" on jan
uary 9, and For Mothers Sake" on
January II. Charles b. Hanford and
Daniel Sulley are both coming later
in the year, the exact dates not being
fixed yet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
A COUGH
CONUNDRUM

When is a cough more
than a cough?
When it's a settled cold.
When it hangs on in spite of
all you can do. Cough mix
lures won't cure it because
they are merely for a cough
and this is something more.
SCOTS Emulsion cures the
cough because it cures the
something more. 1t heals
and repairs the inhamed
tissues where the cold has
taken. root and prevents its
coming back.
Wen send you sample free upon request.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street New York
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
On Trial for Embezzlement.

Washington, Jan. 3.-James A. NJ.
Watson, formerly a district govern
ment clerk, was placed on trial today
for the alleged embezzlement of $73,-
900 from the office of Auditor Petty,
of the District of Columbia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO,


Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm of +. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business In the City Of To
ledO, County and State aforesaid, and that
said firm Will pay the sum Of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for each and every case
Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1886.
(Seal) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
and acts directly on the blood aud mu-
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials free.
II. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggist, price Toe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa
tIon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03

$50 acre ranch. Four hundred
acres on river bottom, 60 acres set to
alfalfa. Well improved good Or
chard; running water. One among
the best in the county. Price is
right. We have other and smaller
propositions equally good.
E. 7. WADE & SON.
Office e. o. Building.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Hotel st. George.

AAONCA 81. OCOESC.
NJ. Mason, Milwaukee.
+. II. Crawford, La Grande.
c. E. Cochran, La Grande.
F. +. Coburn, New York.
j. p. Hammerstein, Chicago.
George Harris, Portland.
James C. Smith, Chicago.
d. l.. Bowen. Heppner.
Harriet Higgins, Salem.
]. F. Mcknight, Hermiston.
Mat H. Mosgrove, Milton.
C. A. Pagan, Seattle.
j. r, Wolfe. Walla Walla.
r. r. Robinson, Portland.
George McGilvery, Spokane.
A. d. Chase, Portland.
r. ID. Samuel, Portland.
j. d. Brown, Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03

At no point in the United States
did the thermometer register as low
as zero on New Years day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03
NEWS OF GURDANE
CHRISTMAS c SPENT PLEASANT
LY IN SOUTH END,

New Telephone in the Potts District
j. 4. Horseman Moves Into His
New House-Dance at Frank Chat
mans Well Attended-McLaughl
Finds New Vein of Coal on His
Gurdane Homestead.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03

National Livestock and Woolgrowers'
Association, Denver, Col, Jan. 10,
1905.
For the above occasion the o. r.
e Co. announces a rate of $4,000 for
the round trip. Tickets on sale Jan.
I. For further information call on
or address,
e. C. SMITH, Agent.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-03

e. C. SMITH. Agent.
Arizona republican., 1905-02-09
ADJUSTMENTS


Wherever Creston Clarke has ap-
peared in Monsieur Beaucaire," the
romantic play that Richard Mansfield
found to be of such appealing value,
unrestrained praise has been accorded
his treatment of the noble character
and the production has met with I'M
stinted approval 1t is more than likely
that q similar verdict is in store here,
for the son of John Sleeper Clarke and
nephew of Edwin Booth has never
failed to score with his fine tai
ents, and the emphatic success attain
ed by him in the clever dramatization
of Booth Tarkington's famous novel is
another positive assurance.
THE REAL DEVIL is COMING.
Lewis Morrison's name has been SO
long associated with the part Of his
satanic majesty in Faust that mil
lions arc rs familiar with his match
less performance as they are with the
beauties of his dramatized version Of
Goethe's story. In short time Lewis
Morrison himself will appear at the
Hardwicl theater as "Me phistO' in
his new production of Faust" The
scenery and effects are all new and
said to be the most artistic and expen-
sive ever gotten up for this play. The
supporting company and choir are the
best obtainable and the new electrical
and mechanical appliances have been
devised to surpass all previous efforts
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

is where I begin to curb the nomadic
spirit and grow genteel and recherche.
For quite a spell crayon portraiture.
self-tauelat. as a side line to iron mold
ing, did not strike me as incongruous.
Nothing is that way-in Chicago-and
1 combined these arts with profit until
a female patron put me out Of the pic
ture business. My system was to
watch the death notice column in the
daily papers and hustle for trade
among relatives of the deceased. One
Sunday a woman on South Halsted
street gave me commission. Her lit
tie girl, Of whom she had no picture,
passed away, and the mother asked
me to dash off a life-sized crayon por-
trait Of the girl from a photograph OF
her small brother, whom she re-
sembled.
Can you make her hair long and
curly and part 1t in the middle, with
some frizzes in front?" the woman
asked, eying my rough and calloused
foundry digits in some doubt.
looked at the photo of a boy, whose
short hair and projecting ears were his
only claims to beauty, and said I would
extend my artistic temperament in the
effort to make a girl of him.
"As for Clothes" the mother went on
conjuring up a mental picture Of the
absent one, II want her to have q
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
ANNOUNCEMENT.

California
which $50 paid
submitted There fertile
te for fiction prolific gifted give spirit the
hand Therefore
day Call offers $50 for the best submitted each week by West
Stories of Western Western will
rule be given the preference but all stories and especially
Each story will be Judged strictly its literary merit Type
the
alton from the editor but do not hesitate send story in hand
writing if afford have it typewriter.
Fifty dollars story 1900
than
for the than
word often
With of
compelled
period of seldom
months The
paid Immediately publication published
Sunday following the iudqng of the
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
@aa @On and OFF the Bread Wagon
Being Hard of A1nateuf1ob
H. Ydh<NNsA By Charles Dryden

tories, toiling their young lives away
in the dirt and gloom so as to live and
die above reproach and wear velvet
plush to and from the shop. Wen. the
female surgeon did a neat Job on the
turnor. and, after sewing up the pa
tient with silver wire. a nurse found
that one of the antiseptic sponges used
In the operation was missing. Much
against her will, the head surgeon
broke the stitches. opened the patient
and retrieved the canned sponge. In
my story the lady doctor said:
I'm glad my attention was called
to this little matter, for that sponge
Is worth so cents
Editor Dunno said was the most
picturesque liar ever lassooed IN Chi
cago: but he liked the literary tone OF
the article. and he printed It Several
weeks later there came letter from
the woman surgeon Of a certain Chi
cago hospital. inclosing my sponge
story, clipped from the Boston Medi-
cal Journal, the only thing she read.
She was quite sarcastic. and said that,
while these trif1ing mishaps will oc-
cur in the best Of hospitals, the writer
of the article showed greater familiar
ity with slang than with the more deli
icate technique OF the medical profess
sion.
Thus did sweet vindication come nv
way. Editor Dunno shook my horny
rnitt and took back all he said about
me being a prolific and tireless nar.
Backed up by this Endorsement. every
thing I write must be true II you
don't believe 1t, ask Mr.. Dooley and
Rube Waddell.
(The End-)
Copyright, 1905. by Charles Drydenl
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

galoot like me, who had lived the life
Of a Siwash Indian. ramming into
newspaper shop and demanding $40 per
week was a proposition that made my
scalp f1utter. Just the same fourteen
years of ragged-edge schooling on the
underside of the world kept me In the
business once got started. My habit
for years was to read the daily papers
from top to bottom, and I was, there
fore, loaded with language. spelling.
padding, punctuation, syntax. wind ana
other essentials without knowing II.
While waiting to be sent out for the
purpose of enlightening the public.
sat in the office and looked at the Jour-
nalists. Old and young men slid In ana
out and wrote and spat and cusseo.
One man had removed his coat ana
uncoupled his starboard suspender to
give his ink arm freer action. A horn
handled pistol stuck out Of his hip
pocket, and on his left bosom was
badge as big as a fried egg. I thought
he owned the paper. Once I made
bluff at scribbling something. Just to
seem busy; but my mouth was so hot
and dry and caked I couldn't get any
thought-juice on my pencil point.
Pretty soon the editor sent me off on
a job-a baseball insurrection in an or
phan asylum at Thirty-fifth street and
Lake avenue; only he didn't tell me
that / found it out myself. Spring
was coming and the little boy orphans
took to slamning ball in the narrow
confines of the asylum yard. The ma
tron called the game on account Of
broken glass. A large and rebellious
orphan named Bradley had spent the
previous summer on the Poor Farm at
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
"Why?" I asked.
He has socks"

Why! / asked.
He has socks
All thought of invading the world
OF letters forsook me. and the careless
b. Arthur lost just one year Of earnest
missionary work. Probably he was jok-
Ing about the socks. III give him the
benefit of the doubt: but, at the same
time, ] did not yearn for profession
that couldn't haberdash itself. Finally,
wrote long story, using short
pencil. about a Mudville inventor who
went broke and bankrupted his friends
trying to perfect device to make cows
come home and get milked. The Mud
Vile cows stayed out nights, flirting
with steers in the next pasture, and
the invention would have been win
ner had it worked
Having seen pictures Of poets and
authors carrying manuscript for publi-
cation, rolled my story into a tight
little cylinder and tied string around
1t. La Shelle, who had to peel my
literary sausage, said afterward he
business, only he had wasted two
years trying to get me started.
When this story was printed in the
Sunday edition of the Times the faith
full B. Arthur Johnson came painting to
my beanery. Mr.. Dunno, he said, was
vastly tickled over my flow of language
and wanted me to go to work as
word hanger and draper and thought
decorator on the daily staff. La Shelle
and Johnson ribbed me up to tackle
the editor for $40 per week, but would
as soon have thought Of asking for
job as bank president. Anyhow, the
boarding house reeked with subdued
excitement when the inmates discov-
cred Journalist in their midst. AS
for mine, was scared stiff-felt like
man doomed to the scaffold the day
/ started to spellbind the Chicago
populace- March II, 1889.
The landlady and held conference
that morning as to whether the ethics
of my new profession permitted a
Journalist to carry his dinner to the
job. / owned a tin pail that rated a
knife and fork in a metal scabbard on
the side. In the bottom was a soup
subway, and above that some tin gal
leries for cold corned beef and pie, the
whole surmounted by a jam Observa-
tory that resembled the nozzle on a $50
camera. 1 actually started for the
Times Office Juggling this pail, but got
cold feet, went back and compromised
on a sandwich in my pocket. Also.
I carried a full length lead pencil
that had a rubber eraser at one
end and needle point at the other.
La Shelle introduced me to Dunne.
who spread the salve on thickly -lnd
refrained from noticing my hands. in
which pots of molten metal fitted easier
than lead pencils.
How much per week do you want?"
asked Dunno.
Same as / get in the foundry"
And how much is that?"
Eighteen dollars" l. feeblE replied.
which was raising the limit S. but
Dunno didn't know that. and got my
price. La Shelle jumped me later for
not sticking out for the $50: but. then.
1 had my doubts. The idea Of a lumpy
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

from de start" says Mr.. Paul. de
dining-rooms of dis notable hotel are
string Of small rooms almost cut off
from each odder .Dere Is no chance
for a crowd in any one Of 'em, and de
good man who is going to spend
hundred for slight repast might as
well be spending ten cents for Frank
fcrtes and sauerkraut down a dark
alley for all de good he gets out of de
hotel. He doesn't go to dat hotel to
play blind-man's buff. Dat was de
mistake of de builder. I have a plan
to fix de ting all right for him. It Is
a hard job. De builders plans was on
de blink to begin wit. De dining-rooms
are strung around tree sides of hol-
low square, SO / shall recommend dat
a curious and nicely adjusted series of
mirrors be placed at angles of de cor
ners so dat de< diner at de souteast
corner gets a full view OF de grub and
rum solved to de gent at de northwest
table, around tree or four toinings.
Den, sir, you will see de folks flock to
de hotel in such numbers dat de re-
solves will have to be called, wit night
sticks drawn, for to keep de hungry
guests in line for deir toin at de tables
Sir, 1t is strange dat when a gent is
passing out a little matter of eight
millions of good gold for q hotel he
will not consult a philosopher as well
as an arkyteck If had been called
In to give few woids of advice could
told how to make a hundred dollar a
day hotel pay as well as fifteen cents
a day one"
Say, Mr.. Paul isn't de only wise guy
on dat proposition. If / wasn't a
little short of funs at dis season Of de
year I'd build hundred dollar a day
hotel for seven or eight millions, and
show de main bazoonus who built de
odder one how de game is woiked.
In de foist place he had dippy block
for press agent All he told de papes
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
EINHANAAIE

money to invest for to get it, and, wit
an income, any man may be happy If
he only knows how. But de example
you cites, sir,' goes on Mr.. Paul, calls
to me mind de fact dat de hotel which
charges $40 for it's cheapest bedroom,
and meals are not solved dat costs less
dan IS each, is not paying ground taxes
for de owner
How do you make out dat?" asks
Whiskers.
1t is a question which / will shortly
write piece for de papes about" says
Mr.. Paul. II has give de study much
taught and am prepared to disclose me
findings to delighted woild, only
has not been able to find a pen in de
house dat's willing to shed ink except
at wholesale. De manner of de matter
is dis: De builder and promoter of de
$5-a-meal hotel was wise on de propo-
sition"-dat wasn't Just Mr. Paul's
woids, but dey is what he meant-"dat
dere is many good citizens of desc
United States dat has more money dan
dey has notions how to separate deir-
selves from It. While we has MANY
good folk in New York who get along
on tree or four hundred dollars per
year, we also has a number who are
trying to spend a quarter OF a million
a year in de manner which will call at
tention to deir excellent efforts to keep
money circulating. But do dose good
folk want to circulate deir good long
green in de dark? No, siri Dere Is
noting dey is ashamed of in de busi-
ness. Dey do not believe in hiding de
good dat dere is In de woild. De ex-
ample Of proper conduct is worth
much. and de folks who are parting wit
one-fort million year want de woild
to see and copy"
Surely. den," says swhiskers, "de
hundred dollars day hotel was de
very place dey was looking for"
But de stage settings was all wrong
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

"HERE comes an end to all
things-even the lure OF tramp
LIE and the ceaseless hunt for
/ Jobs. Having held the center of
the stage for many weeks, shin
ing the tin on myself in the role Of
Hobo. will now get good and dabble
IN Art and Literature, after crowding
the wind-up Of a coarser career into
one paragraph.
Following the pathetic love affair at
New Orleans, returned to the canal at
Keokuk. Ia. for the summer. That
winter starred as night watchman in
a drain tile factory, toting a town
clock to record my movements, and
fighting OF hoboes who wanted to
pound their ear in the shelter OF the
kiln sheds The next summer those
who looked high enough could see me,
far up in a glass pilot house, steering
the lake steamer City Of Milwaukee be-
tween the ports OF Grand Haven, Mich,
and the Wisconsin village the beer
made famous. What an easy guess.
Later IN the season stocked a tugboat
that yanked lumber schconers in and
out OF sawmin towns, and then sought
refuge from the strenuous life in a
West Side Chicago foundry. And this
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
=ADREEEglR y. Eezzsgaa@z -f.y@yls.75ezkyg

you want all de money dere Is in de
woild syndicate me. You won't have
to borrow a million a day from de
town bank to wash me as a stock
proposition. I'm ready money. sure.
Folks want to be known to be spend
ing deir money, and are ready to take
chances at poison and sudden deaf at
de dining table to prove dat dey has
de price; Is willing to stand six hours
OF Doublelungensing by Eyetalian
artist, to prove dat dey has de price;
is willing to court de coroner by riding
in a real automobile to prove dey has
de price How foolishl
Come to my shop. All de proof dat
you has de price. wit press notices OF
de fact, will be supplied; and tings to
eat dat can be eat. tings to listen to
dat can be listened to without swear
ing. tings to ride in dat don't blow
up-say, is it a cinch? Well. we'll!
I wonder nobody has discovered me.
When I'm found. out. sure de banks
will let me have sixty tousand day
for an interest in me profits; some
body will buy me for toity-nine mil
lions and let de people have me for a
hundred and toity millions; I'll be in
corporated and issued as canal stock
de only guarantee being dat I'm not
a canal and dat I am revolution: a
sugar company will buy me and send
me to de Senate to vote on de tariff
tinkering- I wunder nobody has made
me stock company and fioated me at
hundred to get in on de ground floor
and get out in de cellar de best way
you can.
I was all lit up linking what a good
ting 1 was and trying to dope ont
ways of spending all de plunks I was
wort. when Duchess comes to me wit
trouble in her eye-
Master Cheems." she says. what
did Mr.. Paul tell you TO buy for him
when you was downtown yesterday ?''
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

delaine dress, moss rosebud pattern,
box plated with velvet reveres and
double founces around the bottom"
"Will you have the dress hooked or
buttoned in the back?" asked, vague
.ly, thinking she might not be quite UP
in the prevailing style.
Pearl buttons look very-but never
mind" she said. rather abruptly, 1t
seemed. 1.-The back won't show in q
front-view picture"
So I took the photograph OF the
foppy-eared boy and went away, a
crushed and baffied crayon artist right
from the jump. For seven nights after
foundry hours, and two Sunday matt
nees, I, struggled to change the sex Of
that photograph. Ringlets and frizzes
grew all right under the magic touch
of my crayon point, and the f1eecy
cloud effect in the background was
great, but the delaine dress, with vel
vet reveres, knocked me out. In all
my varied pursuits I had neglected to
take up dressmaking; and that one job
so disgusted me with portrait work l
mailed the photo to the woman and
buried my blasted hopes still deeper in
the sand at Mr.. Cranes foundry. Gen
tie females, they say, have helped man
in worthy enterprises. Oh. tut, tut!
One day I met B. Arthur Johnson of
North Henderson, ILL.,, which place is
not far from Mudville. While B. Ar
thur was being showed. with honors,
through our college at Mudville, I was
learning the iron trade. that eventually
helped me into trouble in various parts
ir,( iooey
in 1887 B. Arthur was a Journalist on
the Mail, an evening adjunct to the
Times since deceased. Kirke La Shelle.
present owner of bunch Of New York
theaters and a lot of other good things.
conducted the literary end Of the Mail.
And F. P. Dunno, the Dooley man, was
city editor of the Times.
Well, B. Arthur Johnson took a vio-
lent interest in my future and pestered
me two years with a bold proposition to
break into literature. B. Arthur stuck
to me like a ton of yellow fy-paper.
He haunted me at my boarding house.
He invited me to his hall bedroom
abode and listened to the tales that
flowed out of me as the contents of the
pitcher flowed in. B. Arthur, Journal
related I needn't work in foundries.
He had a softer snap for me. 1 was
too modest and refused to believe the
good news; but the faithful B. Arthur
kept plugging my game from the out
side, while Dunno and La Shelle, inter-
ested by the unselfish Johnson of
North Henderson, strove to yank me
into the fold.
Once 1 was about to yield and be-
come a Journalist, when Johnson un-
Willingly drabbed his own proposition.
We were strolling out Robey street one
sloppy Sunday in winter, and Johnson,
the Journalist, was picturing the joys
of literary career in Chicago. Ahead
was a ragged laborer. AS he walked
his broken shoes gaped open just above
the heels. exposing warm streaks OF
bright red wool.
do ycu know, I envy that man. y
said B. Arthur.