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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
NO RAILROAD CONSCIENCE FUND

The Santa Fe railroad people at To-
peka have been greatly amused by a
recent contribution to the conscience
fund. A man who bought a ticket of
a scalper some years ago has suffered
an awakening of conscience as to the
honesty of the transaction and has
returned to the company s27.
He says that he has made the mat
ter the subject of prayer and has been
advised to remit s27. The rate clerks
are unable to imagine how he came to
get IN answer to his prayer which de-
cided upon that figure.
The amount would be somewhat
larger if he were to remit the actual
difference between the regular fare
and the scalper's ticket.
This incident suggests, however,
that while railroads have a conscience
fund into which they put money con-
tributed by the awakened consciences
OF travellers and shippers, there does
not appear to be any conscience fund
from which to take money to square
up determinations, rebates and over
charges in favor of those discriminate
ed against.
We have yet to learn of a shipper
being surprised on opening his morn
ing mail to find letter from a rail-
road president of traffic manager ad-
vlsing him that on his last shipment
he was charged more than his larger
competitor and that he in all honesty
and fairness is entitled to the same
rate, and enclosing a check for the
amount of the discrimination.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
QUALITIES OF THE ARAB HORSE

Our present thoroughbred is a liv-
ing witness of the Arabs capability
as a founder and creator of races.
Himself a natural racer, bred through
centuries for speed and stay, the Arab
possesses every gift and qualification,
courage, docility, temper, endurance,
action, determination.
If he cannot go with the fliers of
the course, bred and trained solely
for speed neither can he be called
slow. He has run two miles with
Derby weight up in 3:4S, yet on the
course he keeps nearly to his normal
speed. Long or short, his race is run
true from end to end; moreover, so
excellent are his temper and consti-
tuition that he stands training for
years and has been known to win
races in his teens.
In the point of endurance no other
horse is worthy to be named with him.
Under the trying Indian un the two
little Arabs, Honeysuckls and Grayleg
were matched for two-mile heats
best three out of five. 1t took seven
heats to decide the match and three
of them were dead heats.-Country
Life.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
THE BOoDLER'S METHODS.

In the October number of Nc
Clure's c. p. Connolly tells about
Senator Whiteside's famous fight for
the integrity of Montana and how he
led in the exposure of Clarks bribery
of the legislature.
Senator Whiteside is one of the
most striking figures that has appear
ed in the narrative abounding in dra-
amtic characters.
M. Connolly describes him as
peculiarly a man of action, reserved
and intense, who did not know the
meaning of caution, much less of
fear"
His career throughout the bribery
session" was remarkable. Having de-
cided at the beginning of the senator
ial fight when Clark's men began to
approach him with bribes, to break
up the whole band of boodlers, he
went about his purpose with a single
ness of aim that no threats or prom
ises could turn. Nothing daunted
him.
When five of Clark's lieutenants
hearing that something was in the
wind, escorted him one might to the
back room of an office building, ac-
cused him of bad faith and Informed
him that If he was about to play the
traitor he would never leave the room
alive, Whiteside acted his part so
cody and convincingly that the Clark
men apologized and left him one of
their guns to take home with him.
The story of the famous $50. 900
that was intrusted to Whiteside for
the purpose Of buying the votes of
three senators, is one which holds the
readers breathless attention.
From the time the money went into
his hands until the moment when the
clerk OF the legislature held up the
government notes before the assem-
bled body, and a spectator could have
heard a thistle down roll up the isle
of the house, one exciting incident
follows another in a manner. that re-
calls the novels of Dumas.
Whitesides memorable speech after
the reading of the testimony marks
the climax of the most interesting
chapter of this serial which has yet
appeared.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
PLOWED OVER BRYAN GRAVES

George w. Ryder, a farmer of
Bears Den, near here, was sued in
court here for plowing over the graves
Of the parents of William Jennings
Bryan and others in a deserted cem-
etery says dispatch from Youngs-
town. The plaintiff in the suit is
Mary Heron.
Ryder Is also charged with using
the headstones for walks about his
farm yard. During the 1895 cam
paign, and later on another speaking
trip through Ohio, Mr.. Bryan stopped
at Bears Den and endeavored to locate
the graves of his parents. He said he
wa spositive they were buried at that
place, though he was unable to identi-
fy the exact graves. He intended to
remove the bodies at some future date.
The cemetery was abandoned some
years ago, and finally was disposed OF
at private sale, with the understand
ing, Mary Heron says, that the land
was to be left sacred to the dead. Ry-
der later got the land and now pro-
poses to make it raise wheat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

10 a letter from State Engineer Lewis,
has given as his opinion that there is
nothing unconstitutional in the clause.
Mr.. Crawford goes on to say that,
in his opinion, the old common law
on riparian rights may be modified by
the legislature in any way that does
not conflict with the constitution, but
that the Interpretation of what is
vesed rights in most cases is ques-
ton that the courts must decide to the
peculiaritics of each case,
Mr. Crawford believes that the COM
mon law on water rights in many in
stances, is not applicable in the arid
regions of the west.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

and what pieces they can't dispose of
otherwise they throw into a bin for
fuel.
Mummy burns like tinder, but it's
a ghastly fuel It is as ghastly fuel
as the shoe lasts what they burn in
the shoe maxim town of Lynn. where
the old-fashioned and discarded lasts,
glowin' in the gates look to you like
amputated human Trilbies.
81 ben in a tannery town where
the fuel is leather chips. This fuel
smells and smokes. 1t cinders, too,
formin' itself into big. solid chunks
what have to be broke up with the
poker every little while.
"In British Columbia, where fish is
as plentiful as air, they burn dried
fish when there's no wood handy. The
oil in the fish causes them to burn
well, but the smell of this fish fuel
amt to no white mans taste"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

Experience has taught us the best
way to please patrons is to furnish
them what they want at the least
price. The instrument we sell is right
before your eyes with the price in
plain figures, from the smallest priced
plano or organ to superb concert
grands. Our prices and terms of
payment are lower than can be found
in any other city, east or west. We
make this a feature Of our store. All
we ask is comparison. 1t cannot fail
to convince. The Kimball, Chicago's
pride and a world-known favorite;
the Weber and Chickerng. whose
sweetness, sympathy and strength Of
tone have long endeared them to both
artist and amateur. are here found.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
30 Vou M,ow what
aNoNd MomvuMrM?

Indigestion promptly follows the use of
lard as lard is made from hog-fat, and is
greasy and indigestible. Some future day,
when people are wiser and healthier, lard, for
edible purposes, will be scarcely used; but,
until then, we suppose people will continue to
suffer from "lard stomachs."
The most perfect shortening in the world
is Cotfolene. 1t is pure vegetable product,
containing only pure, refined cotton seed oil
and choice selected beef suet. 1t will make
your food palatable, digestible, nourishing
and healthful, which is more than any one
can truthfully say of lard.
Cott0lene is clean product Only the
most modern and hygienic methods are en-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
LAW is CONSTITUTIONAL.

In the proposed new water law that
the next legislature will be asked to
enact is the following clause: IAN
waters within the limits Of the state,
from all sources Of water supply be-
long tc the public, and, except as nav
igable waters, are subject to appro-
priation for beneficial uses"
Some question has arisen as to the
constitutionality of this clause, and
Attorney Crawford, replying
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
Variety

In addition to our three leading
pianos above named, the Weber OF
New York, the Chickering of Boston,
and the Kimball OF Chicago. we carry
23 other well known makes, such as
the Hobart NJ. Gable, Bush and Gerts.
Haddroff, Lester, Pease. Schumann.
etc. The variety of style is practically
unlimited. No necessity OF waiting till
1--WE send for what you want" What
you want is here-the latest and most
approved art products OF the finest
foctories on earth, for thorough in
spection and trial before purchase.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
AN IDIOMETER.

Some visitors who were being
shown over pauper lunatic asylum
inquired Of their guide what method
was employed to discover when the
inmates were sufficiently recovered
to leave.
"Well," he replied, "it's this way.
We have big trough Of water, and
we turns on the tap. We leave 1t run
ming, and tells 'em to bail out the wa
ter with pals until they've emptied
the trough"
How does that prove it?" asked
one Of the visitors.
WELL" said the guide, them as
amt idiots turns off the tap."-Har-
per's Weekly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
TENT BOOK CRAFTS.

The Chicago Record-Herald in an
editorial on textbook CRAFTS in the
suburban villages of Chicago, makes a
strong argument for free textbooks,
to be published by the various states
for their own schools.
While the Chicago paper may not
be IN favor of free textbooks, yet its
disclosure of the graft of the Ameri-
can Book company is a remarkably
strong and convincing argument
against the domination of this trust.
The editorial is as follows;
The irregularities in the prices of
textbooks which came to light while
the board of education was seeking
new readers during the summer were
surprising, and at the time it seemed
as though Chicago was a special vic
tim of the publishers, while other
cities, and more especially the peo-
pie of the states of Indiana and Kan
sas, were highly favored. But Chicago
is not the worst sufferer The Rec
ord-Herald has recently investigated
the prices of textbooks in suburban
towns around Chicago. and it finds
that in some of them prices are very
high even in comparison with Chica-
go prices.
The CHM & Co. readers, just adopt
ed in Chicago at %, 2S. So and 46
cents copy for the first four grades.
ccst Blue Island people 80, 40. As and
65 cents. on the other hand, the for
tunate residents of Hammond. Ind,
get them for TO- Il, % and 80 cents
The hooks sold in Indiana are said
TO he of cheaper make and condensed,
but satisfactory proof that prices and
qualities correspond has not been Of
fered.
Tarr and McMurry Biographies,
published by Macmillan, which bring
As and 50 cents in Chicago. are sold
tc Hammond people at 80 and 7O
cents, while unhappy Berwynites have
OF pay so cents and a dollar. May
wood is paying for its readers prices
we'll above the prices the same books
were quoted at in offers to the Chica-
go school board. The Werner arith-
metic, book two, sells at 40 cents in
Oak Park and haywood and at so
cents in Blue Island and Evanston,
Book three of this same arithmetic,
brings IS cents in haywood. so cents
in Evanston and Oak Park and so
cents in Blue Island. The American
Book company publishes this work.
Such conditions are discreditable to
the publishers and injurious to the
municipalities, not only to the extent
Of the overcharges under which many
Of them suffer, but in still more i'm
portAnt respects. School boards are
pestered, bamboozled and led astray
by the enterprising agents, and school
work indirectly suffers
If the book publishers will not rem
edy this evil by standardizing their
own price lists it may be necessary
for Illinois to pass price-regulating
laws on the lines Of those already in
force in other states.
The cities and villages that have
been worst cheated should be the first
to take up the agitation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
OPPORTUNITY.

The successful man never fails to
sieze opportunity. In ancient Greece
there was a statue that had wings on
its feet. and a long lock of hair on
the front part Of its head while the
back part was bald. The statue rep
resented opportunity, When qucs-
toned "Why the wings on the fcet?"
the answer was. ITO show how fast
fly; why the lock on the fore
head?" "To show how easily I may
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

The whole Yakima fire department
turned out to quench the fires in two
small barns, fire broke out i'm the
Olympia dairy, which was entirely
destroyed. Loss, $1,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
STRANGE FUELS.

II have eaten mutton cooked on a
fire Of broken mummy" said the SAIL
or. 1T was in Egypt, ana the num-
my was stolen out of a tomb. Them
natives is always stealin' mummies.
They sell them in pieces TO tourists,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05
Practical
and Popular
\ Concern That Supplies
What is Wanted at
Least Price

Pianos, Organs, the Pianola, Aeolian
orchestrelle, Electric Pianos and
Pipe Organs, Etc. - Unlimited
Means, Excellent Judgment, Long
Experience, Right Principles and
Policy of Small Profits I'm All Trans
actions Large or Small Are What
the Name "Eilers Piano House"
Stands For.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

ployed in its manufacture. Its bnrltyis your
surety. The quality of CottOlene is always
uniform and dependable.
Every good grocer sells CoftOlene; and
those who use it themselves, recommend it.
1t comes only in sealed, white pals, with a
red label and band. In the center Of the
label is our trade mark-a steers head in
cotton plant wreath. Do not accept sub
stitute. Cottolene is the original and only i'm
provement upon lard as shortening. 1t has
no satisfactory substitute except on paper.
Use 0ne-thtrd less. C0tt0lene, being
richer than lard or cooking butter, one-third
less is required. 1t is,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

be grasped as l present myself; and
why bald behind?" "To show that
when past l am gone forever. REV.
|. II. Driver
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

The present enrolment at the Yak
irna high school is 203. with an ex-
pectation of 225. The top enrolment
year ago was 1S1.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-05

The Presbyterian synod is in session
at Walla Walla.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07
FLOOD OF HoMEsEEkERs.

Another big crowd of homeseekers
arrived at Huron last week. Upwards
of forty car loads of this class of peo-
pie have been turned loose in Huron
during the past week. While all do
not invest in real estate, very many
purchases have been made, mostly by
actual farmers. A large majority come
to look the country over with view
to making investments later. Crowds
are about evenly distributed between
Huron and Pierre and from Huron to
points north. Hotels, lodging houses
and restaurants are crowded continu-
ously, and no sooner does train load
Of these people go out of the city than
their places are filled by newcomers.
Not in the famous boom period was
the rush of people to this part OF
South Dakota so great as now. and the
opinion is that the rush has only just
commenced.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07
IMMIGRATION BRINGS CHANGES
Why the Government Project at Belle
Fourche Is Far-reachinq.

The irrigation project being put
through by the government north Of
Belle Fourche will change the entire
character of this country. Not only
will it make lands hitherto arid and
profitable for cultivation and thus set
tie up the country and bring in a class
of practical farmers, but it will also
change the character OF the stock
raising industry. Before this project
this country was grazing country,
a range section, and the stockmen op-
Grating here had immense herds OF
cattle, which they wintered on the
ranges and seldom fed. Now that this
section will have water the land wiz
be much too valuable to be used for
such purposes, and the day Of the
small stockman, who feeds his herds
and who deals in blooded stock is at
hand. Thousands Of head Of cattle
and sheep will be shipped here for
winter feeding and, as this industry
grows, the demand for alfalfa and
other feed will increase, and the farm
ers will raise these crops, having
sure and steady market for them.
Another industry which will develop
is that of the sugar beet. 1t has been
proven by proper experiments that
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07
Hen Eats Dynamite; Egging
of Actors Causes Explosion
Russian BombArmed "Reds Create No Terror Than
Does Joker in Theater-(B By the piper Of the
Black Hi9hands.)

An explosion of eggs broke up a
dramatic performance given by the
Forrest Kean Booth company at Buena
Ventura, a small mining camp twelve
miles from Deadwood. Three persons
We're injured by the explosion. two of
the actors and member of the au-
dlence. The circumstances surround
ing the affair are peculiar and vari-
GUS theories have been advanced to
explain the occurrence.
The company, which is composed
of graduates from a correspondence
school of acting, has been "barnstorm-
the stellar roles. They had given
performance at Buena Ventura of
Hamlet" and We're billed for sec
ond performance on the following
evening with ''The Merchant of Ven
ice" as the play. The Hamlet" per-
Torrance had not been to the taste of
some of the audience, and number
of the choice spirits. always on the
lookout for mischief, had agreed to
'rotten egg" the actors when they APP
peared on the following night. John
Ringgold had entered into the scheme
and selected as his contribution to the
general supply of eggs a half dozen
upon which two hens had "set" for
six weeks without producing any Off
spring. He carefully placed the eggs
in bag and entered the theater, seat
ing himself with the other conspir-
ators.
1t had been agreed upon that the
eggs should not be thrown until the
courl scene, as all of the cast would
then be on the stage, and it was not
desired that any of them should be
sighted. The performance dragged
along with more or less success until
the Jew cried out, with much mouth
ing and rant for "the bond, the bond,
the letter of the bond"
The leader of the choice spirits took
this as his cue and gave the signal for
the bombardment to begin.
Ringgold slipped his hand into his
sack and picked out large, plump
looking egg and prepared to hurl it,
His aim was poor because of nervous
ness, however, and instead Of striking
one of the much bedaubed actors or
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07

actorines, the egg struck the side of
the proscenium arch. There was a
terrific report and the side wall was
blown down upon the struggling mass
OF actors upon the stage. Ringgold
was SO surprised and alarmed by the
explosion of his missile that he, in
fright, dropped the bag containing the
balance of the eggs to the floor. AS it
fell there was terrific boom and the
floor was Splintered for several square
yards, the flying pieces of timber caus-
ing panic among the audience, which
quickly decamped to the sidewalk.
The fragments of the proscenium arch
in falling struck Mr.. Booth glancing
blow upon his head, tearing off one
ear and possibly causing him to lose
the sight of his eye. Agnes Summer
field, who was taking the part of Por-
tia, was struck by the same piece of
TIMBER but not seriously hurt. The
explosion on the floor caused several
of the audience to receive slight in-
juries, but only James Bittson was
seriously hurt, his right leg being
broken.
The authorities who investigated
the affair We're inclined to arrest Ring
gold, on the ground that he had will
fully hurled an explosive at the men,
bers of the company, but upon his de-
failing the circumstances of the case
he was allowed to go. He stated that
the eggs which he had brought to the
performance We're sentsto him by a
poultry fancer at Rapid City. and that
he had expected to hatch from them
a fancy breed of chickens Not get
ting any results, had supposed the
eggs were added and therefore suit
able for the purpose for which he in
tended to use them at the theatrical
performance.
Upon inquiry, the poultry fancier
informed the police that the hen
which had laid the eggs, in foraging
had run across some dynamite which
was being used in blasting roadway,
and had partaken of the stuff in small
quantities. The theory of the police
is that the dynamite got into the eggs,
in the natural course of affairs, and
that when they were violently pre-
scented to the actors they of course ex-
ploded.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-09-07
THINK MAN WAS MURDERED.
Pockets Are Empty and Head Is
Bruised as If Clubbed.

The authorities of Webster are max
ing an investigation into the cause
of death of a man named Hope, whose
dead body was found lying beside the
railroad track about four miles west
of Webster The man had been en-
ployed on the Hillebrand farm, and
Saturday was paid off. The last seen
of him was at 10 o'clock Saturday
night at Webster, where it is believed
he boarded train. His dead body
was found the next morning by the
engineer Of an east-bound train. Both
legs and one arm were severed. There
were number Of bruises, as If blows
of blunt implement on the mans
head Not cent of money was found
upon his person. 1t is believed that
the case will develop into one of MUIR
der and robbery.