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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

cheaper him before the people. IL Is
un.American. 1t creates factions and
i'll feeling in the party itself, so that
when the general election is held the
enemy Is furnished with plenty OF cam
paign material with which to work
And the Journal, edltorially, though
an old friend of the primary system,
offers this comment:
The other faults in the system, how
ever, are inherent in a direct primary.
and It Is hard to see how they can be
avoided. The theory of the law, the
rosy theory whose praises have been
sounded far and wide, is that 1t plac-
es the power in the hands of the peo.
pie themselves.
Observers Of politics are beginning
to think that this is a piece of grim
humor. The power is certainly there,
but there are so many ways to fool
the people and make them think they
want something, that genuine eX-
preston of sentiment Is seldom Sc
cured. The victory is too often to the
longest purse. In large constituency
where the candidate is known person
ally to a small per cent. of the people,
the biggest advertiser and the man
who hires the most workers has all
the advantage. A man of small means
| is practically prohibited from running.
| The primary becomes a sort of free
for-all election, in which money is
spent like water. Instead of corrupt
ing delegates, the man with the bar
rel reaches out farther to corrupt the
whole body polite. AS a means to-
ward the end of pure politics the pri-
mary cannot be termed a shining sue.
cess.
Another unpleasant result from the
primary is the way 1t lines up the
voters within a party on opposite
sides, an alignment which is likely to
persist in the general election Under
the convention system voters did not
express themselves individually as tc
a choice, and were therefore uncom
mitted and ready to accept the nom
inee with free mind. Under the pri
mary the voter takes a stand for one
man and against another, or for OF
against a principle, plus a candidate
as in our recent city contest. If his
man does not win he is i'll pleased
Having voted against the nominee plus
the issue once, it comes natural to dc
it again at the polls All that seems
necessary to defeat a candidate at the
polls is to involve him in hot primar!
election contest.
|, The primary law has been tried il
Minneapolis four times, and in thu
state at large three times. In its pres
ent form it has been well tested, ant
it has given less satisfaction at eacl
trial. 1t may survive another session
Of the legislature without serious
change as the result of a deadlock
but duty is certainly presented t.
our lawmakers by popular opinion
} Let them either amend the law alon,
some rational plan to cure it's mos
fragrant evils, and give it another trial
or abolish it and go back to the con
vention system with direct vote 70
delegates.
1t is said by some who have studio,
/ the question that the primary law il
| Nebraska would throw the politica
power of the state into the cities, a
: the expense of the country. 1t ma
| prove wise to enact primary election
, law of some sort in Nebraska, but
: will do well for the legislators to stud
, carefully the experiences of othe
3 states before drafting the measure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

A dispatch from Pierre has re-awak-
ened interest in Norfolk's old friend,
the Yankton- Norfolk project The
name of Robert ]. Gamble as one of
the incorporators adds interest to the
fact that articles of incorporation have
been filed in South Dakota. Norfolk
has not yet passed beyond the point
where that railroad, from the Dakota
wheat fields to the gulf of Mexico. by
an air route, would stir an enthusiastic
welcome. 1t has always been believed
by many in Norfolk that some day
that line will be built. With the grade
between here and the river already
for business, it is an assured fact that
Norfolk would come in on the new
route. While this town is not going
to lose any more sleep over the pro
posed Yankton, Norfolk & Southwest
ern railway project, yet it will sit VI
and notice when the north winds blow
rumors in this direction from up yon
der.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Secretary Metcalfe will recommend
that the Japanese have a right to at
tend the public schools In San Fran
cisco. The case will probably be TAX
en- to the supreme court for decision
Nothing would suit Japan better, ap
parently, than to have the supreme
court decision against the orientals
for that would open the way for the
war that the little brown men have
been longing for. There are many IN
this country who believe that the soon
er that war comes the better for the
United States. The plot thickens II
the belief of many that the supreme
court will decide that the whites have
right to exclude Asiatics from theil
schools.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

The national divorce congress Will
recommend uniform divorce laws to
all states and will propose that divorc
es be granted for infidelity, felony
bigamy, desertion, habitual drunken
ness and ntolerable cruelty, Woman
gets the best of the game in this rec
ommendation for men are more guilty
of the above crimes than are the wives
However that may be, the recommen
dations ought to be adopted. TO make
the residence required the same In al
states might hurt business at Sioux
Falls, but 1t would decrease the mum
Der of migratory divorces.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Why not adopt meat inspection
law which will apply to home slaugh-
tering? A Saunders county farmer Is
dead from eating diseased pork of his
own butchering.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

After all these months Of waiting,
we are now told that the denaturlzed
alcohol law, recently passed. Is OF
faulty construction and does not offer
to farmers the relief that was prom
ised. one more reminder that Nor
folk has an empty and idle sugar fac
tory building.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Hearst is planning to get control OF
the Now York democratic organiza'
ton. Another pretty fight Is brewing
And Bryan has endorsed Hearst.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

There Is little to salve democratic
wounds so far as the state ticket here
In Nebraska Is concerned. Sheldon
ran ahead of Mickey by 5000 votes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Typewriter men used to have stock
line which they would run off on a
machine to test its alignment and
working qualities, running as follows:
Now is the time for all good men to
come to the aid of their country"
This form of diction has been slightly
revised to suit modern phraseology.
The sentence now reads Good men
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

And Boni has to foot the bills, They
can't get gay with American girls
without paying for It.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

The countess found that there are
componsations, in more ways than one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

should all get busy now and boost for
their native soil"
It has been decided in one neighbor-
hood that no man has a right to keep
dog which is a menace to the pub
lie. One laboring man the other day
went home at night with pair OF
deep and clean.cuit incisions in the
flesh of his leg, showing where one
ugly dogs teeth had been.
The Fremont Tribune wishes that
congress had eliminated railroad en-
ployes from the railroad passes, Just
as well as editors. Norfolk Is Just old
fashioned enough to believe that every
trainman who lives in Norfolk and
who works for railroad, ought to be
allowed to ride from here to Long
Pine and back If he wants to without
paying fare.
The additional train service between
Norfolk and Chadron is marked step
of progress on the part of the North
western railroad company and will be
appreciated by the big stretch of ter
ritory between Long Pine and Chad
ron. The drummers will benefit very
materially by the additional service,
as will also Norfolk in general. The
extension of train service out from
this city within the past five years has
thrown open much new territory to
Norfolk Not all of it has been taken
advantage of as yet, but the time Is
coming.
North Nebraska school teachers
like Norfolk and Norfolk likes the
north Nebraska school teachers; the
two have been keeping company for
good many years, with only an occa-
sional Irritation on the part of the
| teachers with Fremont and Columbus,
and Norfolk begins to have hopes that
the end of the romance may be a
wedding. Norfolk would like nothing
better than to have the north Nebras-
ka teachers welded to this as their
convention city for all time to come
and with no divorce ever even con-
templated
Il wish l were a hunter" said
Norfolk man this morning, when he
saw a number of his friends starting
out with gun and dog to the woods
and thickets in search of quail. Il
would enjoy getting out of doors and
roaming the woods and fields all day
long, with nothing on my mind but the
intense excitement of bagging the
whirring birds as they shot through
the air. / notice that the men who
hunt are the men who take enjoyment
in life and they always look young
and feel cheerful. That's half the bat
tie, and | wish | were a hunter"
An old playground in the west end
of town is being destroyed by that
cruel drainage ditch. Years ago Kim
Barnes and Guy Barnes and Frank
Cobb and Ray Miller and Marshall
Leavitt and lot of others who lived
and played all day long in that part
of Norfolk, made use of the tunnel
under Main street which once carried
flood waters from the gulch. 1t was
an ideal spot for mysterious fun. The
mud under foot was always nice and
soft so that the sides of the tunnel
could be easily painted, and the vari-
ETY. of mud pies and cakes and men
that were created would have aston
ished any sculptor. But gradually civ
ilization is creeping in and, one by
one, stealing the Fairgrounds of olden
days.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

The French call him a count but
Anna Gould calls him no count,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

When a woman says she tells her
husband everything, you may believe
just half.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16
AROUND TOW N.
Good bye, Bob White.

Good bye, Bob White.
There Is many a slip"
This is the day to get your skates
on.
Us for the organization of a Prize
Winners" club.
You are lucky today if you don't
break your head.
There is no better medicine in the
world than the fresh air of day like
this.
There are a lot of hypnotists on
earth who never appear before the
footlights.
If your husband should die and
leave you $S0,000,000 would you, like
Mrs. Sage, give it away to-but then,
what's the use?
Norfolk gives fair warning to the
weather man right now that we want
clear skies on April 8, and when
the school ma'ams come to town.
The street sprinkler has taken to
the stable until next spring. 1t did
good service and has earned a rest.
Norfolk drinks to the health of the
| street Sprinkler-may 1t live long to
sprinkle!
Norfolk will have right to feel
dressed up when the sounding wires
are perfected in the Auditorium and
the sidewalks redecorated and the
woodwork retrimmed and the floors
carpeted.
North Nebraska teachers and Nor
folk people as well will appreciate the
fact that the Auditorium is to be
available next spring. In fact the Au-
ditorium is to be available hereafter
for anything that Norfolk, in public
way, wants to use 1t for.
There is this advantage about own
ing a reputation as a reckless card
player; You are never expected to
win prizes and when you do accident
ally take one home, you get really
more attention than is your due. Ev
erybody is perplexed over how it hap
pened.
Typewriter men used to have a stock
line which they would run off on a
machine to test its alignment and
working qualities, running as follows:
Now is the time for all good men to
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

better to real hungry man than
chatting dish.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

a doctor has two classes of people
to contend with: Those who swear
by him and those who swear at him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

If a shiftless man in country town
doesn't keep greyhounds he usually
plays a fiddle"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16
ATcHISoN GLOBE SIGHTS.
Don't bet on your popularity.

Don't bet on your popularity.
Some way beard looks out of place
on right short, thin man.
When a woman says she tells her
husband everything, you may believe
just half.
The old-fashioned cook stove looks
better to a real hungry man than a
chatting dish.
If shiftless man in country town
doesn't keep greyhounds he usually
plays a fiddle
A doctor has two classes of people
to contend with: Those who swear
by him and those who swear at him
The autumn leaves are beginning to
lack something like a woman who is
searching for an effectual hair dye.
When man is dead, or is a candi-
date for office, his friends should say
the best things possible about him.
1t is not recorded that any financial
genius ever got his start by purchas-
ing diamonds on the installment plan.
| 1t is as impossible for the police to
do everything they are requested to do
as it is for father to answer all his
children's questions.
Nearly every man thinks he is wide
| ly known. An Atchison man said to-
day: Everybody knows me-" We
made test of it, we asked the first
twelve men we met if they knew him,
and they said they had never heard
of him.
When man looks through his peck
cts for money to pay his car fare when
on his way to work in the morning,
and can't find a cent, it means his
wife went through them when he was
sleeping the night before.
1t is said the reason the Lysander
John Appletons do not entertain more,
is that their preparations are too elab-
crate to permit of such company. Be
fore having a friend to dinner, they
paper the spare bed room, knowing
the friend will see it when she re-
moves her hat, and they also put a
new floor in the kitchen, and clean
house.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

The autumn leaves are beginning to
lack something like a woman who is
searching for an effectual hair dye.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

should all get busy now and boost for
their native soil"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Some way beard looks out of place
on right short, thin man.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

When a man is dead, or is a candi-
date for office, his friends should say
the best things possible about him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

There is no better medicine in tn
world than the fresh air of a day Xix
this.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Us for the organization of Prize
Winners" club.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

You are lucky today if you don't
break your head.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

There are a lot of hypnotists o
earth who never appear before tn
footlights.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

If your husband should die an(
leave you $SO,OOO,OOO would you, like
Mrs. Sage, give it away to-but then
what's the use?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Norfolk gives fair warning to the
weather man right now that we want
clear skies on April 8, and 5 when
the school ma'ams come to town.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

The street sprinkler has taken to
the stable until next spring. 1t did
good service and has earned a rest.
Norfolk drinks to the health of the
street sprinkler-may it live long to
sprinkle!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

It has been decided in one neighbor-
hood that no man has a right to keep
a dog which is menace to the pub
lie. One laboring man the other day
went home at night with pair Of
deep and clean.cut incisions in the
flesh of his leg. showing where one
ugly dogs teeth had been.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

Norfolk will have a right to feel
dressed up when the sounding wires
are perfected in the Auditorium and
the sidewalks redecorated and the
woodwork retrimmed and the floors
carpeted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

1t is not recorded that any financial
genius ever got his start by purchas-
ing diamonds on the installment plan.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

This is the day to get your skates
on.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-16

When man looks through his peck
cts for money to pay his car fare wher
on his way to work in the morning
and can't find a cent, it means his
wife went through them when he was
sleeping the night before.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15
WHY THE BITULITHIC FAILED.
Results at Tacoma Not Il Fair Cri
tcriOn 10 .JniIgc il RN.

supplementary to the black eye"
given bitulithic paving by recent ad-
vices from Tacoma. printed in the
Boise Statesman, the Boise Capital
News contains the following:
Most any member of the city coun-
ell could have saved the morning pa
per the amount it paid for the special
telegram from Tacoma" said a mem
Der of the council today.
I'VE Investigated the bitulithic
pavement laid at that city and found
that while the specifications called
for bitulithic paving, such as the War
rem Construction company proposes to
put down in this city, the sub-contrac-
tors failed to follow specifications and
gave that city perhaps the worst piece
of work ever performed. The Warren
company condemns the work as an
outrage for which It is in no way re-
sponsible. The city engineer of Ia
coma is probably as much to blame as
the contractors.
"The character of paving to be done
in Boise is to be the same that has
stood the test of heavy traffic in the
large cities of the east, where they
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15
81 Dress Goods

This line includes some of the incest
fine Chiffon, Panamas and Serges
shown in Pendleton, in the light
weight for spring wear.
Let us show you these new goods.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15

expending of that fund will be in the
national capital not later than Febru-
ary 20. The members of the COM
mittee are 7. w. Tomlinson, Murdo
Mackenzie. Samuel Cowan. A. z. De-
RicQles, NJ. V. Parsons, r. S. Boyce,
j. NJ. Boardman and Peter McGregor.
The main thing to be looked after
at Washington is railroad legislation.
The Hepburn bill, which was indors-
ed at the convention of the stockmen
is starting on its perilous journey
through the senate, having passed the
house. The senate expects to slaugh-
ter the bill, or so mutilate it that II
will be ineffective.
Pure food laws to protect the pub
lie and stockmen are being sought by
the association. Several measures are
before congress which are considered
satisfactory.
The bureau of animal industry is
doing good work, but needs more
money to carry on the work properly.
The stockmen have been asking for
frequent census of livestock. At the
present time no one knows the guam
tity of stock in the county and it is
difficult to gauge the supply and de-
mand.
Humane societies of the country are
opposed to the extension of the 2S-
hour law to SO hours, but the stock.
men are a unit on the proposition
They are backed by Secretary James
Wilson, of the United States depart
merit of agriculture and it is believed
that a S6-hour law will be adopted.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15

our line of 75c and Csc Dress Goods
is especially strong, including many
shades of gray and also colors, in the
popular weight materials.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15

Denver, Feb. 15.-During the week
committees appointed by the Ameri-
can-National Livestock association
will start for Kansas City and Wash |
ington to begin the fight in the inter-
est of the stockmen of the country.
Next Saturday, February II, al
committee will be in Kansas City to
meet the members of the Kansas City
and st. Joseph livestock exchanges
and the Meat Producers association
and others interested in the demand
of the western stockmen for lower
commission charges
February 20 a committee will be in
Washington, when the battle will be-
gin in earnest. Some of the things
the committee will push are:
The Hepburn rate bill, which Is ex-
pected to end railroad freight discrm-
nations.
Pure food laws.
A large appropriation for the bu-
reau of animal industry
The extension of the 2S-hour law
to SO hours, so stock may be kept in
transit that length of time without
being unloaded for food and water.
Secretary T. w. Tomlinson, of the
National Livestock associa-
tion. left Denver today to attend the
meeting at Kansas City and from
there he will go to Washington.
Others who are members of the
committee appointed to bring out re-
forms in the livestock exchanges are
A. E. De Ricqles, Denver: A. l..
Ames, Buckingham, Iowa; John G.
Lytle, Fort Worth; F. n. Stewart,
Buffalo Gap, S. D.; Robert Taylor,
Abbott, Neb., and Murdo Mackenzie,
Trinidad, Col.
If the committee is unable to bring
the commission men to time, the
members of the American National
association will establish cooperative
exchanges of their own and run the
regular commission men out of bust.
ness.
mo definite arrangements to es.
; tablish cooperative exchanges have
been made" said Mr.. Tomlinson, "bu
we will do so If it is found necessary
January ] the commission charges
were increased at Kansas City, Soutl
st. Joseph, South Omaha and Siou,
, City. On sheeep and hogs the in
| crease amounts to 50 per car and OF
cattle from 50 to 81 per car.
r Besides the high commission
I charges, there are other evils tina
er will he remedied. The method o
= handling feeders is being objected t,
r by stockmen. A farmer cannot pur
chase feeders direct from the com
mission men, but must buy them from
q scalpers. This makes the farmer pa,
. unnecessary commissions.
Y At the convention of the American
3 National Livestock association hel,
e in the city short time ago. NOR
= than $4,000 was appropriated for tn
= purpose of carrying on a fight TO
!. legislation favorable to the stockme
I and against the railroads and pack
ers. The committee which has tn
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15

Don't deceive yourself. II you have
indigestion take Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure. 1t will relieve you. Rev. w.
E. Hocutt, South Mills, N. c., says:
~ was troubled with chronic indiges-
ton for several years; whatever / ate
seemed to cause heartburn, sour
stomach. fluttering of my heart, and
general depression of mind and body.
My druggist recommended Kodol,
and It has relieved me. can now
eat anything and sleep soundly al
night. Dodol digests what you eat
Tallman e. Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15
Developing the Buffalo-Monitor.

This week Manager \. Berkeley
let a contract to Tom Donovan and
Walter F. Crone to do considerable
development work. They will drive
the lower cross-cut tunnel till the
Buffalo ledge is encountered. Their
contract also calls for running the
north drift on the Buffalo vein in the
upper level so feet further.
The Buffalo Monitor mine is one
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15
MnN BE Sold In Pendleinn

Bond Bros. are making an effort to
secure the sale of the famous Pool
System clothing, made in New York.
This celebrated clothing has never
been Sold in the smaller towns. but
Bond Bros. hope to be able to secure
the sale for Pendleton, and are anX-
iously awaiting the arrival of a letter
from the manufacturers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-15

DR.. Fastenrach, a Zurich professor,
spent much time the past five months
standing up to his neck in the water
of Lake Luzerne, testing the tanning
of fish. He has succeeded in tanning
about 200 fish so that they eat out OF
his hand and let him lift them out Of
the water.