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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07
NETWORK OF ROADS
JUDGE GILLnAND STATES
WHY THE STATE SHOULD ACT

II the Legislature VIII Take the Re-
sponsibility, $4,000 VIII Bo Saved to
the County - Through the Fast
UmatIlla Project Road Should
Run on Every Section Line-There
Are Now Seventeen Petitions on
File Before the County Court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07
EPISCOPAL Sale.

The ladies of the Parish Aid will
hold their annual sale on Tuesday
afternoon and evening, December IL,
at the Parish House.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07
"Thc Yankee Consulr December Is

"Thc Yankee Consul" December Is.
"The Yankee Consul" one Of the
best comic operas to come here this
year, will be presented at the Frazer
theatnr on Saturday night, December
10. The company carries about 40
people and presents sparkling COM
edy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-07

Read the East Oregonian.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17
Agricultural Department.

cultivate the forty acres all 0.
K. with only a little help in hoe
ing. You see the hogs do most
of the gathering.
The cotton crop is small, only
five acres this year. | would it
be less, but the two Jersey cows
are very fond of the seed, and it
pays for our trouble. We make
$S to SO a month from the cows,
besides having all the milk and
butter that we need in the family.
l do not consider milking a druid
gerry, as ! have good stalls to milk
in in bad weather.
With twenty. five acres to plant
for hogs to Craze on, eighteen
acres for corn, and with the aid
of four or five acres in cotton.
two acres in cantaloupes, made
500 per acre on the cantaloupes,
in 1904, and $50 an acre on cot
ton land net. So you see, with
the aid of my wife, with her leg.
horn hens, bronze turkeys and
the sale Of butter, how we
balance the books at wind up of
the year. 1t is my aim to i'm
prove the land, the stock of hogs
the mule colts, the Jersey heifers,
leghorn pullets, the bronze tur-
keys, and the two little girls,
three and a half and five years
old, by keeping dear old Home
and Farm for them when they
are a little older, as we have
been subscribers since we began
housekeeping.
H. 81. McCauley.
Wallis, Tex.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17

The time that a heifer is al
lowed to 60 dry after her first
calf is dropped affects her habit
IN this respect all of her life.
Breed the heifers early and
cultivate the habit of early ma
turity. a heifer running until
three years old before having
her first calf will rarely make a
heavy mixer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17
Dairy Notes.
(By Shepard

Salt is an everyday necessity
to dairy COWS.
lrregularity interferes with the
secretion of milk in dairy cows.
There is larger proportion
Of waste with an old cow than a
young one.
Utensils for the dairy should
have the fewest seams and rough
places.
Neither dirt nor odors can be
strained out of milk.
Butter, when churned too long,
becomes solid and greasy instead
of open and grainy.
No buttermaker, however eX.
pert, can make good butter from
improperly ripened cream.
Cows may be ever so good,
but they cannot make milk with
out the materials to extract it
from.
In warming cream, never heat
it SO as to melt any of it, as it
will make it soft and off flavor.
Learn we'll to make five cows
profitable before increasing the
number to ten.
A stable may be apparently
clean and yet harbor objection
able odOrs. A thorough white
washing will remedy this.
Because you are feeding the
milch cows a liberal ration of
concentrated food, do not think
it reason for emitting plenty
of hay and fodder.
Dairying has reached that
period when every step con
nected with it must be conduct
ed according to business prin-
cipIes to secure a fair return of
profit.
A good COW will make more
pounds of human food in year
than a steer will make in life
time, and you have the cow left
over for next year.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17

Written for The News.
What is the remedy for the
very dark condition Of things
that confront us as race III
this section? Fathers, can you
not stop your sons from loaiing,
sitting on the corners of the
streets, spending their days
around the club rooms and de
pots2 Is it fact that the ne
gro race in many instances il
degenerating? Under the shadow
and influence of the christian
church and educational institu
tions can we not have bette,
men and better women? Our
farmers conference for Feb 22n'
has before it many grand prob
lens for its consideration. How
many color ed men in the county
that are able to take four, FIVE
or eight horse farm and conduct
it to the satisfaction of the own
er without an overseer? How
many colored farmers that hav
made from six to ten loads OF
fertilizer from the woods an
stables? How many colored
farmers so thoroughly under.
stand the diversifying Of CROP
and the improvement Of lanC
that he is willing to risk an of
fer from any man, who is will
ing to furnish him with supple
for the running of an eight horse
farm? How many negro farm
ers have provided all the board,
for his garden so that when
plowing time comes his wife Will
have no trouble in preparing her
garden? What the country need
most in the farming line is men
that can take large farms and
control and conduct them to the
advantage of the owner and
themselves. How many colored
farmers can cut down their mum
Der of days of going to town
this year and put them in the
garden and potato patches. We
complain sometimes of low WAC
es for work, but how can the
owner do otherwise when he
pays him ten dollars a month to
work and pays a man twenty
dollars to keep him at work.
When the negro establishes that
confidence in all mankind that
he can do a days work as we'll
without being watched as he can
when the overseer is looking at
him, then and not until then
will the negro be able to get
full value for his labor.
pray the day when both the
white and the black man will be
willing to appropriate money to
that man or set Of men that will
teach the races the best thing
for both races. Let every color.
ed farmer in the county see to it
that be be present Feb. % at
the great annual gathering.
Yours,
M ID Lee
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17
The COlOred Farmers Con.
ference.

Urgent Call for a Full At
tendance---Some Pertinent
Questions--Why the Col
ored Laborer is Worth no
More Than He Now Re-
ceiVeS.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-17
A Lone Star State Sample
OF Compact Agriculture.

Six years ago L married ana
went to farming with view to
raising cotton as money crop. l
expected bale to the acre, which
was not impossible on black
land, properly cultivated, with
out Mr.. Boil Weevil.
But he had made his appear
ance, and l saw that a change
was necessary and must be
made to make the books balance
at the end of each year, as l
started to keeping books when
we were first married. 1t is
something of a job the year
round, but still it Is pleasant
one when you have become &C.
customed to it. A day book, or
monthly as l may call it, and a
ledger is all that's needed for the
farm. l carry each month to
ledger. At the end of the year l
can account for every daily paper
l buy and whatever is sold. It's
there to show what it was sold at.
But, back to the cotton: The
weevil is here and we think to
stay. But with dry, hot weather
from June l to middle of July,
and an early maturing variety of
cotton we are able to get a good
crop if properly cultivated. In
1904 only had five and half or
six acres of cotton. 1t made g.
535 pounds. l plowed it out each
week for eight weeks with cul-
tivator and gathered the infested
squares three times. l planted
on March ii and by July 20 the
crop was all matured and ripen-
ing, it being Kinny's Improved.
Up to this time / had raised
only hogs on three four-acre
fields, twelve acres in all, with a
registered Poland China male
and three we'll sows, and
had herd of twenty five head of
nice hogs.
In October l planted two fields
to oats. l have pastured them
through winter. At the middle
of March | take hogs off one lot
and let them run in the other
until eaten out or destroyed. By
the time the first one will be
headed out and getting ripe then
let the hogs have them. When
| do this the other lot has been
planted in Spanish peanuts, while
the third field has been planted
to sorghum about March l.
This is ripe by the time ripe
oats is cleaned up. When hogs
are put on sorghum, plant the
other Oat field to peanuts, and by
Aug. the first planted peanuts
Will be ripe and ready for hogs.
| chen plow the cane stubble and
it comes out again and makes as
good crop as the first one was.
This year | doubled the herd ,
that is, | have fifty five head in
stead of twenty five, az last year.
While growing hogs to gather
the crops was a big advantage,
had to pump water by hand: so
|. when / sold the fattened stock |
, invested in windmill and tank,
with piping for hog pens, horse
lot and kitchen, and you may
imagine what a relief it is to
come from the field at noon and
night and simply turn the water
on, instead of having to pump for
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
YOUTH OF FIFTEEN
sPOILS THE PLANS
OF W0ULD-DE SUICIDE
Leaps Into Bay and Saves
Drunkard After a Hard
Battle.
Desperate Man Makes Second
Attempt on Life When
Hauled Ashore.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SAN DIEGO, June 21--It was through
no fault Of ]. Hannah. big, strapplnS
Irishman employed by the Western SAT-
Company. that he Is alive tonight HAN
nan came TO San Diego from Nat1onal
City last evening. and immediately got
drunk This afternoon he went down
to the water front and made desperate
EFFORT to end his life by jumping INTO
the bay from Kyle's wharf
Hannans act was witnessed by Earle
Kyle, a 15-year-old boy. who immeoi-
ately Jumped into the water and swan
to the rescue OF the drowning man
Hannah was determined to die and
fiercely fought the boy. who. neverthe-
less, persisted in his efforts to save the
man and managed to keep Hannah
head above water until Policeman War
rem and a couple of other men arrived
IN a rowboat-
When hauled into the boat Hannah
fought desperately. and IL was round
necessary to handcuR him and tie ms
feet to a seat OF the boat. AS soon as
he reached shore and his feet We're un-
tied he broke loose and ran for the
water with the intention Of Jumping IN
again, but was caught and taken 10
jail.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
MANY GOLFERS TAKE PART
IN MATCHES ON THE LINKS
Dickinson and Fairbanks Are Beaten
In the Traas-siississippi Asso-
citation Tournament.

OMAHA, June 21.-There were some
surprises in the results of today's play
in the sixth annual tournament of the
Trans mississippi Golf Association
Warren Dickinson of Des Moines and
Walter Fairbanks Of Denver, respect
lively championship winner and runner
up in last years tournament, were both
beaten in the second round, as was H
P. Bend of ST. Paul, champion In 1904
The play-off of yesterdays tie for thir-
ty-second place in the qualifying round
was won by II. B. Surney.
CHICAGO, June 21.-John Hobens
professional OF the Englewood On. J.)
Golf Club, led the field OF forty-seven
starters in the Western open golf
championship at the end of the first
thirty-six holes play today over the
Homewood links. With the wind blow
ing a gale from the southwest Hobens
made the two rounds in IS and 76. a
total of 154 strokes. Willie Smith Of
Mexico and Willie Anderson of Onwent-
sia, the open champion of the United
States, were but two strokes behind.
while Gilbert Nichols, Denver; Fred
Mcleod, Midlothian, and Aleck Smith,
Nassau were tied at 157 each.
GRAND RAPIDS, June 21.-Champion
II. Chandler Egan and last years run
ner-up, D. E. Sawyer, had easy victories
in the first round of the Kent County
Club golf match this afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
FATHER ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS DAUGHTER
AND LITTLE NIECE.
Bullet From His Rifle Passes
Through Legs Of Two
Walker Girls.
Accident Occurs on the Porch
Of Their Home in Happy
Valley.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

REDDING. June 21.-Ruth walker,
the 15-year-old daughter of Rev. A L.
Walker, and little Grace walker, the
2-year-old daughter of Otis Walker,
were accidentally shot yesterday after
noon while on the porch Of the Walker
home In Happy Valley. The wounds
are serious, but not necessarily fatal
The remarkable feature about the acct
dent is that the same bullet passed
through the legs of both girls and then
dropped to the floor a short way from
the chair In which the smallest girl was
being held by Miss Alice English.
Rev. Mr. Walker had loaded the rifle
with 22long cartridges Miss Dora
Walker, sister of Ruth. had just handed
the gun to Otis Walker, father of one
of the victims, when in some mex
plicable manner the weapon was dis
charged. The bullet passed through
little Grace's left leg, entering about
three inches above the knee, grazing the
bone and coming out about the same
distance above the knee on the other
side. Ruth Walker. the child's aunt,
was standing at the side of the chair
and the bullet passed through her left
leg, entering about half way between
the knee and hip and coming out just
above the knee and falling TO the floor
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
ASKS FOR COOPERATION.
Chamber of Commerce Investigating
Insurance Situation.

Insurance Situation.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco has sent out letter to $4,000
policy holders In this city, together
with blank forms, and has asked for
aid in securing all possible inforna-
tion about the acts of insurance COM
panies for general distribution. The
letter, in substance. is as follows:
The Chamber Of Commerce Of San
Francisco has undertaken to collect IN
formation as to the present insurance
situation with view to the publishing
of a report.
One Of the objects of such a report
the manner in which the several COM
panies are meeting the situation.
More, however, is contemplated.
This. the greatest confiagration in the
only a profound erect upon the future
business of fire insurance, but ii will
be felt by all the financial interests of
the country.
Francisco feels that it has peculiarly
appropriate opportunity to do a useful
piece of work In collecting all the in
formation possible and summarizing II
whatever changes are made in the
business or control Of fire insurance
may be made intelligently.
1t must be evident that report from
merce will do more harm than good to
both insurers and insured unless 1t is
made with thoroughnass and in an en-
tirely judicial spirit
You can help us very materially in
this matter If you Will take the trou-
BILE to see that the inclosed forms are
filled out properly and returned to us.
The success of the investigation de-
pends largely upon the amount that we
can get of such information al 1t. is in
your power to give
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22

the adjustment is made the claim will
be paid in full. Some of the COM
panies in the "six-bit list have an
nounced that they will adjust inde-
pendently. The Svea OF Sweden, the
Agricultural Of New York, the Phenix
Of Brooklyn and others are in this list.
They will not, however, affiliate with
either Of the factions in the adjusting
bureau.
POSITION OF PEENIx.
]. E. Lenehan, general agent for the
Phenix Insurance Company of Brook
lyn, has issued a circular letter to the
agents of the corporation explaining
the attitude of the company In the in
surance developments and from which
the following excerpt is taken:
Where the damage by earthquake
was not of sufficient magnitude to rem
der the insurance void, or where
buildings or their contents were de-
stroyed by civil or military author
ity before the fire, or where books
and records were destroyed so that 1t
is impossible to supply the proofs of
value required under the contract and
for other good reasons 1t seemed
right and just that if settlements were
had under policies not absolutely void
q reasonable deduction should be made
from the face of the policies. Many
companies expressed a willingness to
dispose of such claims by Immediate
settlements for cash. after deducting
% per cent from the policy IL the same
were generally adopted 1t is needless
to say that such settlement was not
obligatory on the assured; he could
elect to avail himself of 1t or await an
adjustment which naturally would be
long and tedious because of the many
complications arising from the diff
Guilty of separating losses for which
companies were liable from those ex-
empted in the policy contract, because
of the many varying forms of policy
contracts and the loss of essential rec
ords, both by the companies and the
assured.
1.-The proposition appealed to many
business men and bankers who saw
in 1t the means for prompt disposal
of these claims on a cash basis and
which meant much to the policy-hold-
ers in San Francisco. This tentative
plan, however. did not meet with the
approval of some companies, several OF
whom saw in it's opposition an op-
portunity 70 secure q certain amount
of advertising, and nothing has been
left undone in that direction. / be-
lieve this plan offered needed relief to
a stricken community, and IL generally
adopted would have provided the funds
for Immediate restoration of much or
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22

The representatives of eleven Of the
fire insurance companies whose licenses
to DO business in California are open
70 cancellation because OF their positive
refusal 70 obey Commissioner VOLTS
command TO either furnish him with
complete list OF policies or sign the
stipulation granting additional
sixty days to their policy holders for
the fling OF proofs Of loss yesterday
declared that their companies would
stay in California and settle losses un-
III they were driven out These COM
panies are the American OF Boston.
American OF Philadelphia, Concordia,
Delaware, Dutchess. Globe and Rutgers,
Germsnia- Girard. New York, Spring
Garden and Westchester Fire. Four of
these companies have already informed
Commissioner Wolf that they viii
withdraw from California eventually;
two OF them TO pass entirely out of
existence. The Germania and the
Delaware have decided 10 withdraw
from California, but desire to remain
long enough to pay their losses dollar
for dollar as they are adjusted. The
American OF Boston and the American
OF Philadelphia viii settle as best they
can and retire from the insurance
business.
GIRARD WILL FIGHT.
The Concordia, Spring Garden and
Westchester companies announce that
they wish to continue business in Cali
fornia, but will withdraw If Commits
sioner Wolf gives the order. They do
not say so. but they seem to intimate
that they will some day fight for re-
instatement II they are sent away
now. The Girard announces that IL
viii fight and VIII do business until It
IS absolutely compelled TO move out,
paying all just claims The North
Baltimore have not yet signihed their
course Of action. The New York will
probably go out of business. as IT has
already reinsured it's risks, although It
has not yet so notified the Insurance
Commissioner. The Traders of Chi
cago is. OF course. defunct and it is in
the hands of a receiver. This disposes
OF the fourteen companies which have
dehed the laws OF California
The American OF Boston has an
nounced through its special represent
ative r. W. Hosmer Of Chicago, that it
viii settle its losses at about 80 cents
on the dollar if not less. Hosmer says
that his company is in bad shape and
cannot do better.
The American Of PhiladelphIa finds
itself in about the same predicament
as does the American OF Boston. I'VE
are going out of business altogether"
seid Waite Bliven, the special repre-
sentative from Philadelphia, "and we
are settling our claims as best we can.
We have no intention OF paying q
single policy at its face value because
we are unable to DO So I can't yet
say what percentage we will be able to
give"
CONCORDIA TO PAY IN FULL.
The Concordia is anxious to stay in
California We will settle our losses
dollar for dollar" say Dickson and
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
SAYS STATE SHOULD
TAKE CHARGE OF ALL
THE FEEBLE MINDED
New Yorker Believes in Having
Them Cared For by the
Government.
Declares Society Can Be Re
ieved Of the Burden in
Easy Manner.

NEW YORK, June 21.-There is no
reason why society should not relieve
itself of the burden of mental and
physical degenerates in two or three
generations, according to Alexander
Johnson, secretary of the National
Conference of Charity and Corrections.
This can be accomplished very easily.
Mr.. Johnson told the school of philan-
thropy yesterday, simply by segreg egat-
ing these individuals.
They should be educated to the full
est extent possible" he said, and 1T Is
astonishing what can be done with a
feeble minded child If it is caught
young. They should be taken into the
care Of the mother state from child
hood until death, and thereby the state
will be serving not only its own best
interests, but those of the defective in
dividual. l don't like paternalism in
government, but we can't have too
much maternalism."
Although Johnson believes in elimi-
mating bad stock, he thinks that the
idea of heredity has been greatly over
worked and that environment is a mat
ter of infinitely more Importance
II would rather be born in the worst
slum, of the worst parents that ever
were,' he said, and be removed to a
satisfactory environment at birth, than
be born under the best possible con-
ditions and then be removed TO a bad
environment. Heredity is a powerful
factor, and we need never be surprised
at anything it does. Yet this infiu-
ence is slight compared with that of
environment, and much that passes as
heredity is really the result of envi-
ronment"
Johnson expressed the opinion that
Guiteau and probably Czolgosz were
defective and ought to have been sent
to insane asyluns instead of being
executed
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
kIDNAPS CHILD
FROM SCHOOL
Mother Boldly Takes
Her Daughter and
Disappears.
Steals Little One at Close
of Graduating Ex-
erclses.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE GAIL.

SAN BERNARDINO, June 21.-Mrs.
Joseph Lester. keeper of a lodging
house on Third street, this city. boldly
kidnapped her child. little girl, from
the Sisters School at Fifth and E,
streets Monday evening after the grad
uating exercises. Deputy Sheriff Ward
has been hot on the trail OF the mother
and child since, but the pair have
dropped completely out Of sight. Mrs.
Lester Is known to have taken train
out of this city this morning for Los
Angeles, but the girl was not with her,
and the journey was probably taken to
throw the officers off the track.
The little girl is the principal bone OF
contention between Joseph Lester, a
prominent rancher Of Chino. and Mrs.
Lester. A divorce suit is now pending.
Judge B1edsoe ordered the child placed
In the Sisters School temporarily.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
SAN DIEGO STANFORD CLUB
GIVES BANQUET TO DR. JORDAN
Head of PaIo Alto Unfversity Takes
Part In Graduating Exercises
In Southern City.

SAN DIEGO, June 21-This evening
the commencement exercises OF the
graduating students OF the Russ High
school were held In the Isis Theater
before a large crowd. The address OF
the evenig was delivered by David
starr Jordan. president OF Stanford
University. Dr. Jordan talked OF the
growing need of college educated
young men of sterling quality. The
presentation of diplomas was made Dy
John Campbell. president OF the Board
OF Education Thirty-two pupils grad
uated This evening DR.. Jordan was
given a banquet by the San Diego
Stanford Club. Covers were laid for
fifty persons.