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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA.

"a Queensland, Australia, man told
me-" says Charles Edward Russell in
Soldiers of the Common Good" in
Everybody's Magazine for October,
that he doubted if in his part of the
country they could have achieved
much If it had not been for the
women.
Every avenue of employment was
absolutely in the hands of the en-
trenched governing classes. and every
man that agitated for election reform
was not only discharged but black
listed and boycotted. He found 1t i'm
possible to obtain employment any
where; no man dared to hire him.
George Ryland was blacklisted for
five years. They would not let him
plow nor chop wood nor drive horses
1t looked like a hopeless fight against
a power so great and so arbitrary.
| Often the men were discouraged, but
the women, never; they had more
pluck than the men,
"The savage injustice had stirred
their utmost resentment; one and al
they urged their husbands to keep or
and never to yield. In many caset
wives assumed the burden OF support
ing the family. Some turned dress
makers and some cooks.
"One family that I know lived fou
years on a weekly income of between
SO and 81 earned with her needle b,
the wife and mother. The HUSBAND
tramped Queensland looking in vair
for work. With such spirit amoni
the women the situation could no
long continue.
"a body of voters grew up not o
the labor element but painfully con
! vinced that existing conditions wer'
wrong. These united with the feV
labor men that had the franchise, tn
better element was outvoted an
! overturned, the suffrage was reform
J ed. the labor party swept into posses
sion of the Queensland state govern
ment and holds that government to
dayo
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
OUT OF THE JOKING STAGE.

The East Oregonian is out of the
joking stage in regard to the simpli-
fled spelling. 1t is serious in adopt
ing some sensible reform which is sure
to be universally adopted by newspa-
pers in time.
And it predicts now, that within a
very few years, the editor Of the
for the safety of the English language,
will he seen searching his Dickens
derfer typewriter for new forms of
simplified spelling which seem to him
today to he cold blooded homicide.
The American book trust has no
patent on the language. Becauze
none of their publications now contain
reformed words. Is not an assurance
that school books with reformed
spelling will not be issued by the
thousands, and that within a shor
time.
Why not timber up the long silen
keys upon the Blickensderfer, brother
and give your US" "fs" and othe
dezerving letters the fatherly assur
ance that they are members of tn
English alfabet, as well as the pette'
"s's," "ph's" and other spoiled child
rem Of the household. You will hav
to fall in lire some time. Why nd
be we'll up toward the head of tn
| procession?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
ELECTRIC CARS COMING.

The announcement by the WaIla
Walla Traction company that electric
cars will be running from the Garden
CITY to Milton and Freewater by the
first OF the year means as much to
Pendleton as TO any other point.
From Milton to Athena is but
short step, all the way thru a thickly
populated district. From Athena to
Pendleton is but another brief space,
likewize thickly settled. and from
Pendleton thru the irrigated land
under the government project to the
Columbia river at either Umatilla or
Cold Springs. is but another stage of
the inevitable progress.
There is your continuous chain of
electric lines from the Columbia river
to Walla Walla, and the end of the
line will be at Spokane before We re-
alize that it is being bilt.
That will give the inland empire
direct river COMMUNICATION. 1t will
mean quick transit. frequent trains,
development of farming communities
and a CONTINUOUS claim of farm
houses for 900 miles from Umatilla
junction to Spokane.
This may seem visionary view o.
this matter, but it seems to be found
ed upon inevitable developments. Thu
irrigated section of Umstilla count!
under the government project and th'
Furnish project will not be long with
out ample transportation. That dis
trict will produce an abundant o
marketable stuff. People will wisl
to come and go frequently betweei
their homes and the county seat, an
after good wagon roads and mai
routes and talefones, then will surel
come the electric line.
II the electric line is bilt to Free
water by January l, 1907, as it is nov
intended, it will be but a brief tim
until the whir of the wheels wi
awaken Pendletonians from thei
early morning dreams.
This, county has not yet begun it
logical development.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
TO SUPPRESS THE NEWS.

The National Manufacturers asso-
citation and other trust interests which
are oppozed to the spread of enlight-
cnmeut ard which fear public eX-
pozure Of their criminal acts thru the
press are agitatng for an increase in
the rate of newspaper postage in
hopes of suppressing hundreds of
small papers which are now "thorns
in their sides" becauze Of the eXpoz-
ures made thru them.
The Chicago Livestock World
strikes a keynote in an editorial op-
pozing this trust movement, The
World says:
Certain people and interests are
working to have the postal rate on
newspapers increased to a point that
would put cut Of bizness a large num-
be- of publications that the people
seem to have regarded as useful and
valuable to them.
Publishers pay the government $50
ton for distributing papers to the
people and the people get the benefit
of this low cost i'm low subscription
prices. 1t is propozed to increase the
cost to publishers to $50 or $50 ton.
and some representatives of the peo-
pie (?) are advocating an increase
of $16O per ton. Railroads only
charge Sc a ton for hauling logs from
Chicago to Philadelphia and are glad
to get the bizness. Why, then, should
it cost so enormously to have news
, papers hauled across the country?
Newspapers are the primal source
of postal revenues and the greater
their circulation at the prezent rate
of postage the less the deficit.-Wil.
mer Atkinson.
The work of carrying second-clas.
matter is not done for the publisher
but for the reader. If the expense o
carrying was higher the reader woulC
have to pay the increased cost.-Sen
. ator Bailey.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21

the inside. The exhibits and booths
win be tastefully arranged and it will
hc superb event, for the first time.
Thc'people OF the county are urged
10 attend ,he fair and help establish
tt firmly In the county, 1t can be
made a most enjoyable event for fu-
ure years, It has been delayed long
n coming. but it now promises to bd
launched right.
This is an invitation, You will be
made welcome. Don't stay away.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21

With travelling men making this city
their headquarters, with young men
and women coming from a distance to
fill Pendleton dormitories, with per-
manent street improvement in sight
with one OF the best irrigated districts
in the northwest now opening at the
gates of the city and with a continu-
Gus movement of substantial farmers
from the surrounding country to this
city, 1t looks as tho the future holds
much more for Pendleton than has
been enjoyed In any past period.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
THE OLD RAIL FENCE.

1t binds the end Of the orchard
That slopes away to the east.
And stored in its tangled borders
Is many luscious feast.
A butternut guards one corner,
wild grapes weave leafy screen,
And Haunting its orange berries
The bittersweet creeps between.
Each spring 1t hides in its shadows
A bright eyed bird on nest
And curves in allurirg fashion
A rail that invites to rest.
1t leans in quiet contentment
Against thorn apple tree
And watches over a meadow
Where bobolinks sing in glee.
Dark stained and warped by tn
weather.
And furrowed by rainy tears,
1t wears odd patches Of lichen
Put there by the passing years;
Yet clothed 1t is in a beauty
That changes from day to day
And leaves on my mind a picture
That never shall fade away.
--Adella Washer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21

No danger of the Associated Press
adopting anything new-unless 1t
could monopolize it. Simplified spell
ing has no charms for this little trust
becauze the people would be getting
something from It free, should 1t use
the new form in its news dispatches
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
= +++++++++**++++++i

, scorn not the slightest word or I
: deed.
+ Nor deem it void of power; I
? There's fruit in each wind-waft- !
Z ed seed
2 That waits its natural hour.
: \ whispered word may touch t
: the heart,
Z And call it back to life;
+ \ look of love bid sin depart, I
= And still unholy strife. :
: No act falls fruitless; none can !
+ tell
Z How vast its power may be,
+ Nor what results infolded dwell !
+ Within it silently.
+ Work on, despair not, bring thy I
+ mite,
/. Nor care how small it be;
+ God is with all that serve the !
+ right.
: The holy true and free.
+ Anon. l
.. L = 4. . 4. 4
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
OF

PORTLAND, OREGON.
American plan. SO per day and up
ward. Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle-
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
establishment in the hotel.
II. G. BOWERS. Manager.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Mer ging Ofthe Livestock
Associations.

One of the important results
Of the late meeting of the Live
Stock Association in Denver was
the consolidation of the National
Live Stock Association and the
American Stock Growers AS
ISOLATION whichwas eFec led at the
annual conventions of the two or
CARNATIONS. The American Ma
tional Live Stock Association is
the name adopted for the amalga-
mated body, which represents
10000 stock growers, and Murdo
Mackenzie, Of Trinidad, Colo,
was u animously elected presi-
dent of the new association by a
rising vote in the joint convention
of the delegates Of the two old as
sociations. Mr.. Mackenzie has
been president of the American
Stock Growers Association since
its organization a year ago by
seceders from the National Live
Stock Association. This split was
caused by a decision to give re-
presentation in the stockmen's
convention to the railroads and
packers. In the association Or
gained today, with which will be
affiliated As subsidiary associa-
tons, only stock growers will be
represented.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Military Changes.

The President recently nomi-
mated Major General John c.
Bates, at present chief of staff
to be acknowledgement to sue
coed Maj. Gen. Adna r. Chaffee
(retired) Feb. l, He also NOM
mated Brig. Gen. w. A. Greedy,
chief signal officer, to be major
general of the line, to succeed
Gen. Bates as major-general; al
so Col, James Allen, to be pres
iding officer of the Signal Corps
to succeed Gen. Greedy.
1t was further announced that
Brig-Gen. j. Franklin Bell, now
in command of the infantry and
cavalry school at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, would be appointed
chief of staff to succeed Ger.
Bates upon his retirement next
April.
Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee was at the
War Department today for the
,2st time before his reti ement
saying ''orewell TO his friends.
He is going to West Point to see
his son, who is a cadet Chere, be-
fore leaving New York next Sat-
urday for Santiago, Cuba, to as
sist in the location of the battle
monuments there.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Not Fit for Single Statehood

During the year just closed
New Mexico, although it has
bareley $50, 900 acres under cult
walton, raised 100000 pounds
of fruit, which commands the
best prices in the great markets;
it raised besides S., 900, 900 worth
of farm crops; shipped 100000
head of sheep and lambs, leaving
5000, 600 head on the ranges; it
has almost 500,0 900 head of goats
and nearly as many horses.
Then, there were little side issues
all wealth bringers, such as the
production Of 100000 pounds of
butter, 100000, pounds of pork,
$40, 600 dozen of eggs. No Won
Der that the stream of immigra-
ton into the territory is broaden
ing, every day, and that the ter
ritory has increased in population
in five years from 100000 to over
100000 or over so per cent.
During the past year New Mex
lco's manufacturing amounted to
So, 900, 900, its mineral production
was almost as much, the produc-
ton of coal alone having been L.
672, 4S6 tons; of zinc, 1899, $50; of
gold, 1881, $50; of copper, $685.
382; Of silver $l24, 1903; of lead.
Sl34, 283; of iron, 10000 tons;
lumber, 10000, feet per an
mum; wool, $4,000, 600 pounds per
annum. During the year 200 CO.
mpanies incorporated to do bus
mess in the territory, with an ag-
gregate capitalization of S125, 600.
600. There are at present Is ma
tional banks and Is state banks,
with aggregate resources of about
$15,OO0,OOO.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Every Dollar Returned.

During the years since the ma
tional irrigation act went into eff
ect projects that will cost, when
completed, something like $751;
OOO,00 have been approved.
Some of them are already under
way, some have been completed;
on others the work is yet to be
started, These projects will
reclaim approximately l, 100000
acres of land. This land will be
divided into 18, $50 homesteads of
eighty acres each. On every one
of the little homesteads houses
will be built, families raised IN
health and happiness. The L.
5000 acres will be made to
yield abundant harvests, adding
to the wealth of the nation and
to its capacity as the storehouse
of the world. All Of this will be
accomplished without a dollar of
final expense to the government.
Every cent will be returned to
the treasury in payment for the
land and water"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
The Impending strike.

At the close of e great Mine
Workers CONVENT in Indian
apolis last week President Mitch
ell said the impending strike of
the coal miners will mean a ma
tional suspension of mining and
will involve approximately 6OO,-
900 men, including the workers
in the anthracite field, and will
affect 1000, 600 people dependent
on the mining industry for their
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Rate Legislation.

Representative Powers of
Maine has introduced a bill in
the house providing for rates leg
islation in Arizona and New Mex
leo. According to the measure it
will be unlawful for any railroad
in these territories to charge
more then three cents per mile
for passenger service. About $50
pounds Of free baggage is to be
allowed. The minimum passen-
ger rate is fixed at ten cents for
short distances.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09

daily bread. Questioned as to
the possible cost of such a strike
to all concerned, he replied that
the strike of the anthracite min
ers, which lasted for twenty-six
weeks, cost over $1OO,O0O,OOO.
He said that by April l, when
the great struggle will be precip-
itated, the union will have a cash
fund Of 100000 available to
carry on the conflict.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09
Another Sanitarium.

According to the Albuquerq ne
Citizen, that town will soon have
a tent city sanitarium for tubercu-
Iosis unfortunates that for "elab-
orateness and modern convent =
ences will eclipse anything of
the kind in the United States"
The institution will be built by
Chicago capital and under the
management of residents of the
Windy City," The treatment
for the elimination, eradication
and humiliation of the white pla-
que, will consist of a subcutane-
Gus injection of oil of some kind
by the physician in charge. Sew
eral queries will naturally arise
just here in the mind of the
thoughtful reader. We close
with one-Is the location, the in
stitution elaborate, and are the
modern conveniences all essen
tial to the successful treatment
by simultaneous injection of the
oil of gladness?
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09

Phone So for coal, 81 per ton.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-02-09

With cotton fields in the south
which control the raw cotton
markets of the world, what have
we to fear?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
Why Not Start Here2

''The republican leaders in congress
have no more intention to give the com-
try reciprocity than they have to give
it tariff revision, and this despite the
fact that the president is for both re-
forms, and despite the further fact
that clamor for tariff revision is COM
ing up from the rank and file of the
republican party in many quarters of the
Union," is the opinion of The Wash
ington Press. The rank and file of the
republican party, however, have it with
in their power to elect a congress that
will give the people what they want,
and it might not be bad idea to start
right here in the second congressional
district to elect a representative who
will favor both reciprocity and tariff
revision.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
Blue Earth in the Republican
State Convention.
HAS seventeen DELEGATES
Southern Counties Will Not Show Up
as Well as Heretofore in the
Big concIave.

Blue Earth county's representation in
the republican state convention has been
cut from twenty -one to seventeen.
The state committee decided to appOr-
ton delegates on the basis of the aver
age vote cast for the eleven candidates
for state office in 1901. Each county is
allowed five delegates at large and one
delegate for every $50 votes or major
fraction, figured on the average plan.
This will give convention of $1,000
delegates, smaller by lightweight than
the convention two years ago, which was
based on the Mckinley vote of 1900.
The loss will fall mainly on the south
ern counties. The first, second and third
districts will lose fifty-one delegates, the
fourth and fifth districts containing the
twin cities, will lose twenty-five, and
the four central and northern districts
will lose only fifteen. The eighth dis
trict will actually gain one delegation.
The representation from the second
district in the convention this year will
be as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
MISS AUSTIN Is MARRIED.
Former Mankato Girl Joined in We'd
lock at San Diego.

San Diego, CAL, March 30-Last
evening at the home of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Austin, 5000
G street, Rev. W. E. Crabtree, pastor of
the Central Christian church, united in
marriage, Miss Evangeline Austin and
James H. Mathes, in the presence Of
about fifty relatives and friends, the
ring ceremony being used and the bridal
couple standing beneath a canopy and
bell. The wedding march from Lohen-
grin was played by Miss Frances Good
win. Following the ceremony bountiful
wedding supper was served.
The bride is a graduate of the San
Diego state normal school and has
taught in this county. The groom was
formerly in the hardware business here,
and is now following the same line at
Alpaugh, Tulare county. Both have
been active members of Mr.. Crabtree' s
church in the past. They will go to
Alpaugh after few days here and take
ND their residence in a new home
which Mr.. Mathes has prepared for his
bride.
Among those in attendance at the
wedding were the brides uncle, MIR.
Croker of Los Angeles, and the groom's
brother, John Mathes of the same city,
also number of former residents of
Mankato, Mimi, the brides former
home
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
FORMER RESIDENT DEAD.
Frank Strunk Passes Away at River.
side, California.

from TUESDAY s DallS.
Judge Cray has received letter an
nouncing the death of Frank Strunk at
his home at Riverside, CAL, Sunday
morning. Mr.. Strunk was well known
in this city and at Lake Crystal, hav-
ing been engaged in the lumber bust
ness in both cities. His yard in Man
kato was where the Hayes-Lucas yard
now is, and he lived in the old Judge
Waite house.
Mr.. Strunk located in Lake Crystal
in the seventies, and in 1888 he moved
to Mankato, where he was engaged in
business for six years. Then, in 1894, he
went to California, and lived there ever
since, engaged in fruit growing. He
was seventy six years of age, and leaves
wife and one son, j. f. Strunk, who
also lives at Riverside. The deceased
was an excellent man, and had many
warm friends wherever he resided. The
news of his death will be received with
regret by all who knew him.
The funeral occurred today at River
side.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
Tips to the New Club

st. Cloud business men have organic
ed commercial club and fixed the en-
trance fee at $25 and the dues at SIC
per year.
Referring to the new organization
The st. Cloud Journal Press has this to
say:
Zone of the first things that com
mercial club should do is to work fol
closer relation between the local mer-
chants and our farmer friends. There
is a field which will be profitable to
both. Local merchants can successful
" compete with mail order houses, and
an effort should be made to give them
the opportunity of providing this to the
people within a reasonable distance OF
st. Cloud One good way to bring about
more cordial relations between the
farmers and the merchants is to make
St. Cloud the best possible market fol-
farmers produce. 1t is this now for
wheat, butter, eggs and some other
things, but it is not so good in other
respects. We have the mills, we have
a cold storage plant and we have
packing house. Get these and the mer-
chants working together, and with the
right kind of advertising much can be
accomplished"
Much of the above applies equally
we'll to Mankato. The new commercial
body in this city could do much to
bring the farmer and the merchant clos
er together and also to put stop to
so much of the trade which properly be,
longs to Mankato going to Chicago. The
subject of good roads should demand
the attention of the club and other mat
tiers that are so near home. The club
should not attempt to handle things
which are beyond its means, but take
up with those that are within its reach
and power.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
RAPIDAN MILLS MUTATIONS.
Happenings for the Week in That
Favored Locality.

George Nelson and George Flo have
gone to Aitkin county to look for land
Marcus Larson has purchased new
windmill.
School in district 100 has closed until
Thursday on account of bad roads. Miss
Bennett is SPEEDING her vacation at her
home in Tivola.
Bay Weller has gone to Minneapolis.
Mrs. Garrett entertained some lady
friends to dinner one day last week
Miss Bertha Just is sewing for Mrs
Eberhart.
Mr.. Landkamer is improving his place
by laying a cement walk and plaster
ing his house.
Mrs. Shendell's birthday was remem-
bered by friends from MankatO who
came and spent the day with her.
Mrs. Anderson of Minneapolis has
bought the Evensteadt place and moved
there last week
MIS-. IlouSeTS anu uduSHttIS SpcHt
Monday in Mankato.
Miss Lille Weir is home for vaca-
ton.
Warren Bentlett and Ruth Eberhart
are on the sick list
The last Rapidan Literary society will
be held Saturday night.
Miss Mabel Pfaff has returned to her
school in Eagle Lake.
}. Rube of Minneapolis spent Sunday
at the Cheney home.
William Crandall returned from his
trip to Virginia City Saturday.
William Ochs, who is attending the
Toland university. spent Sunday at his
home in Springfield.
Mr.. Bates and family of Spring Island
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Knoss Sun
day.
George Gartlett was a Mankato visit
or Tuesday.
Mrs. Louis Yaeger is improving
slowly.