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

Weston, Sept. 21.-Very little wheat
has been sold from Weston this sea-
zon. The warehouses of the Kerr
Clifford and the Pacific Coast Eleva-
tor companies are both full, and some
will have to be piled on the outside.
It is estimated that there is about &c.
900 bushels of wheat stored in each
house. The farmers are all waiting
for better prices. The local price Is
SO cents.
Joe Blakely, deputy sheriff, was in
the city yesterday serving summons
and subpenas on jurors for the Octo-
ber term of district court in Pendleton.
Miss Mabel Whitman of Pendleton,
was the guest of Miss Kate Kirkpat-
rick Saturday and Sunday last
Hugh Walker is here on a Witt
from sherman county where he has
begun farming $50 acres of land rent
ed from his uncle.
j. II. Padberg and family have
moved to the Lexington naborhood
I'm Morrow county where Mr.. Pad
berg will engage in farming.
w. C. Young came down Monday
from Franklin county, accompanied
by his son Ward, who has entered the
Normal school.
Mrs. William Blair arrived from
Crook county Sunday to attend her
dauter, Miss Jessie Blair, who is III at
the Sisters hospital in Walla Walla.
Robert White is preparing to har-
vest IL acres of beans from summer
fallow land at the farm of Mrs. Sarah
Stages near town. A yield of at least
| 700 bounds per acre is expected, which
viii make the crop quite a profta-
BILE one.
DIR. ]. c. Baddeley will return on a
few days to the Washington State COL
lege at Pullman. to continue his pro-
fcssional studies. During the vaca-
tlon he has been practising as a vet
erinary surgeon at Weston and Athe-
ma.
Tim Mcbride has returned from the
Sumpter mining district, where he has
been for some time.
Samuel Key and family have ar
rived from Montana with n view to
locating in the Weston country, where
Mr.. Key was a rezident some 12 years
| ago. He is brother of ]. II. Key, a
we'll known farmer north of the city.
Potatoes are expected to bring a
good price this year. on the plateaus
the crop was almost n total failure,
leaving the mountain product to sup
| ply the local demand. In the Helix
country the crop is total failure.
The road down Wild Horse creek
from the old Waddington place to the
King place, which was rendered i'm
passable by the flood last spring, has
been put in good condition.
| The Weston Normal has been re-
ceiving new pupils all this week, and
1t is now believed that the enrolment
will reach 1870 from this place. The
work is well under way, and the Nor
NAL will have its banner year this
term.
Gould-Tuckcr.
| Wednesday morning at II o'clock
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21

Nothing is too good for the home.
Baker e. Folsom's for best furniture.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-21
VALUE OF HURST PATENTS.

To best illustrate the immense value of the Hurst
Automatic Switch Signal Company's patents. COM
pariscn should be made with that of other notable
Inventors of recent date, for instance, the Dunlap
Pneumatic Tire Company had been in operation
VIXEN it was sold for S15 900 100000 The sharehold-
ers had then received dividends and premiums in
the sum of $3,29O,575OO, and by the terms of the
sale received $144375OO.OO. giving total result of
s17,6SS O75.OC. The purchasers, afterwards resod
to another company for the of $25,OOO,O 10000.
The Westinghouse Air Brake made $4,000 10000
profits and the Bell 1elephons has paid the Of
$66 900 100000 in dividends
1t is claimed that there in the United States
over $50 patents paying, each, than $1,000
10000 annually. According to estimate by the
commissioner of patents, three-fourths the entire
manufacturing wealth of the country of upwards of
$6 600 900 10000 is based on patents The products
of all the gold and silver and diamond mines in the
world would not equal the aggregate annual incomes
of American patents
Judging from the above facts and figures it is
not out of the way to estimate the value of the
Hurst patent at $25,OOO,OOO.
Many famous inventions like the Electric Light
Bell Telephone, Westinghouse Air Brake and other
important inventions went begging in the beginning
of the company for the lack of public confidence,
not one person in hundred, who had a chance
purchase stock of these companies took advantage
of the opportunity, and all these enterprises
paving handsome dividends
All that the Hurst invention requires is an INTEL
ligent consideration. Give the following points a
few minutes thought and you will see why we so
heartily recommend the Hurst securities to our
clients 1t is life saver, saves the destruction of
valuable freight, rolling nd
ment mails which affects the public railroad COM
panies and the government directly.
There four why the railroad compa-
nes want and must have the Hurst System 1st
the Hurst System is a necessity Why? For public
safety. End, it is money saver. 3rd a money saver
is money maker 4th, a money maker is a divi-
dend payer and the result is self evident that the
Hurst patent has wide scope and the day is near
when every railroad will be equipped with the
Hurst System.
The Hurst Automatic Switch and Signal company
is incorporated. Its shares are full paid and non
| assessabe.
We leave IL 10 YOU to conjecture what the shares
Will be worth when the factory is started and the
| company is producing and dividend paying
basis.
JENSON,
e for Eastern Oregon.
PEEDLETON, OREGON
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
WEEKS HAPPENINGS.
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN a con-
DENsED FORM.
She Joins Divorce Coiony--Mrs.
James Blaine Has Arrived Ia sioux
Fa1ls-Must Remain Six Months
Can Then Apply for Divorce.

A Sioux Falls special says: Quite
hutter was caused among the mehlnete
of the local divorce colony by tne ar
rival in the city Monday of Mrs. James
G. Blaine, who comes to Sioux rams
for the acknowledged purpose OF re-
naming the six months necessary 10
make her a citizen of South Dako'a 30
she can secure divorce.
1t Is recalled by old residents Oh 'ae
CITY that she is the second wife OF
James G. Blaine, the younger, 10 come
to Sioux Falls with the object OF Sc
curing a divorce. The first was the
former Miss Nevins, who Is now the
wife of DIR. Bull, of New York City.
The latest addition to the divorce
colony was accompanied only by
maid, and upon their arrival here they
were conveyed direct'to the Cataract
Hotel, where Mrs. Blaine engaged
suite of four rooms. Here she VIII
make her home during the time she
is serving her six months preliminary
to become a citizen and eligible TO
make application to the South Dako'a
courts for the severing OF the matrlmo-
nial ties which bind her to Mr. Blame
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24

Fire Sweeps Upper Michigan and
wisconsin.

wisconsin.
Escanaba. Mich, dispatches state:
Driven by heavy gale Of wind, one
of the most destructive forest fires in
the history of this district Friday af-
ternoon laid waste tract Of land fifty
miles square and at late hour was
still spreading.
At 8 O'Clock II was known that the
following villages have been wiped
out: Quinnesec, population 1000;
Schaefer, 600; Ralphs, 400; Salvoie,
200; Cornell, 500; Woodlawn, 200, and
Talbot, 400.
At North and several other points
on the line of the Escanaba and Lake
Superior railroad at o'clock Friday
night, whea all communication was
cut of. the fire had reached the out
skirts of the villages and no hope for
saving any OF the property was held.
Hundreds of people are homeless and
are being brought into Escanaba as
fast as trains can be sent to the burn
ed district
In addition to the loss of several
of feet of cut timber have been burn
ed and great tracts of standing tim
ber badly damaged. The loss Of the
]. Stephenson Company, of Wells.
from burning timber alone it is be-
lieved will approximate several hun
dred thousand dollars.
AS far as known no lives have been
lost, although families Of several
homesteaders living in the burned dis
ttrict are missing and it is feared that
they have been burned to death.
Refugees arriving in the city tell
horrible tales of their experiences in
escaping from the flames. One man
declared that the flames were advanc-
ing on the city of Cornell at the rate
of seventy miles an hour when he and
half of the residents OF that place were
taken out on relief train.
The best information obtainable at
IL o'clock Friday night is that the
forest fire which is sweeping the coun-
try north of Marinette, Wis, has
reached Iron County, north of Dickin-
son. This makes four counties which
are suffering from fire. The area is
200 square miles.
The territory swept by the fire va
ries from pine timber lands to bar
rens.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
BATTLE TO DEATH IN CANOE.
Rival Lovers Meet Tragic Fate in
Canadian Lake.

w. A. Thompson and Isadore
Bouchard, formerly employed on the
projected line of the transcontinental
railway, met death under most tragic
circumstances in Helena Lake, Ont.
on the north shore Of Lake Superior
Thursday, while in a canoe, half 3
mile from shore, they engaged in
combat, capsizing the craft. Undaunt.
ed, they climbed to the top of the up.
turned canoe and engaged in hand to
hand struggle lasting nearly thirty
minutes, when, their strength spent.
they slipped into the water.and sank
fisherman and daughter standing
on the shore We're the only ones to
witness the death struggle. The bod
les have not been recovered. There
had been feud between the two men,
tn outcome OF quarrel over girl.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
GRIEF CAUSES wIFE's DEATH.
Widow of Capt. Lyons Follows Hus
band to Grave

Mrs. J. w. Lyons. of Grand juno
ton, Colo, who was seized with an
apoplectic stroke Tuesday afternoon,
after attending the funeral of her hus-
band, Capt. J.. A. Lyons, who dropped
dead Saturday, is dead.
Physicians who were called in to
attend Mrs. Lyons state that the apo
plectic stroke was the direct result of
her intense grief over her husbands
demise. Mrs. Lyons collapsed at the
grave of her husband as his body was
being lowered into the ground and
had to be carried to a hack, in which
she was hurriedly driven home. Short
ly after arriving at the house she beg
ged to be allowed to die.
Capt. Lyons was auditor of Iowa for
three terms. having lived in Guthrie
County in that state for a third Of
century before removing to Grand
Junction five year sago. A large es-
tate is left for their heirs.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
VICTIMS UNDAUNTED
HOMELESS MICHIGAN SETTLERS
READY TO TRY AGAIN.
Fire Strip Thirty Miles wide--Practi-
calIy Nothing Left In the Path of
the FIames--At Least Three Thou
sand People Are without Homes.

A staff correspondent of the Milwau-
kee (wis.) Sentinel who Sunday made
a tour of the district in the upper
peninsula of Michigan covered by the
forest fires in special train, the first
train to go through the district since
the catastrophe. telegraphs that the
fire appears to be practically out In
all the district. The fire ragged for q
distance Of sixty-four miles along the
line OF the Escanaba and Lake Supe-
rior Railroad and for thirty miles be-
yond Charming, the western sctminus
OF the road.
It seems certain now that 1000 per-
sons are homeless in that district and
that 1000 are left desolate at Quinne-
sec The Quinnesec fire, however. was
of different origin from the Escanaba
fire. having started in a field where
men were pulling stumps and burning
debris. This fire spread into the city
and wiped out all the buildings except
three residences and the paper mills.
Then the fire spread into the timber.
and running north for forty miles.
finally Joined the flames sweeping east
on Escanaba.
The strip burned along the Escanaba
and Lake Superior road appears to be
thirty miles wide.
Stories of heroic battles against the
flames are numerous. Dozens of towns
were saved only by the most desper-
ate fighting. Northland. town of
1000 Inhabitants. was three times
threatened. The fire was checked each
time at distance of only ten yards
from the houses on the outskirts.
A remarkable feature of the fire
Is the fact that few refugees are dis
heartened. most of them being deter
mined to return and begin over. They
have only the clothes they wear, but
say this is the fortune of the frontiers
man and that If their homes are lost,
at least the fire cleared the land for
them, and this much labor is saved.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
CHILD WRECKS HOUSE.
Poured Powder in Stove to Hear
II Pop.

II Pop.
A Sioux Fails, s. D.. special says:
The desire to see what would happen
IL he placed three or four pounds Of
gunpowder in stove resulted in the
serious injury of Leonard, the G-year-
old SON of Mr. and Mrs Daniel Lynch.
prominent residents OF Charles Mix
County. and wrecked the Lynch dwell
ing house.
A baby brother of the boy who was
sitting on the floor near the atoye. hal
a remarkable escape from instant
death.
The grown members OF the house,
hold were temporarily absent from tho
house when the little boy secured the
can of powder and, pouring out three
or four pounds of the powder, threw II
into the stove for the purpose of see-
ing it.'pop." The force Of the explo-
sion wrecked the house to such an
extent that 1t looked as IL it had been
struck by a tornado.
All the windows in the room and an
adjoining one were broken into thou
sands of pieces and scattered in every
direction. The outside doors in the
kitchen and dining room were brok-
en- and forced out. Even the roof or
the building was damaged, II being
lifted and forced several inches out Of
place, while in one corner of the roof
a huge hole was torn.
One of the walls of the kitchen was
blown outward and the partition be-
tween the two rooms was thrown out
of place. That both children were n"t
instantly killed is considered little less
than miraculous. HF
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
CLOSE CALL FOR PRISONERS.
Narrowly Escaped Burning to Death
! H. In Aberdeen JAIL

A tragedy IN the Aberdeen Jail was
narrowly averted Sunday. The police
had arrested five graders who were left
behind when the Milwaukee construc-
tiontrain pulled out for Evarts. The
men became troublesome and 1t was
deemed the safer. plan to place them
in the lookup till Monday, when it was
intended they should join the next
construction crew passing through
the city.
few minutes after the Last man
had been locked up firemen in the
building adjoining heard shouts and
hurrying to the scene found smoke
pouring out Of the roof. The police
alarm was given and in a little while
the prisoners were taken out and the
fire extinguished. Some of the men
had broken the bench into spiinters
and set fire to them. A portion of the
wall had caught fire and the cellf
were filed with smoke.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Kenneth Drew, Aged II, Shot Himself
n. While Hunting.

Kenneth Drew. IL years of age. son
of RMS. Bertha Drew, of Niles, Mich,
accidentally shot and killed himself
while hunting gophers near Langford
Sunday Mrs. Drew and the boy came
to Langford about two months ago to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. L. Lamberton.
Sunday the lad went hunting with
a 22-caliber rifle, and when he did
not return for dinner in the evening
his mother grew uneasy and secured
the assistance of neighbors to search
for him. g..
The boy was found lying on his back
with bullet hole in the corner Of
his right eye. He died an hour later.
1t is thought the rife was discharged
while he was crawling under a wire
fence, as the weapon was found there
later.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
SCHOOL HOUSE AS TARGET.
Boys at Pistol Practice Seriously
Wound Teacher.

AS the result of three boys making
a target of school house, Carney
Schmitz, teacher of a school in the
country west OF Vienna, is in a hos
pital with severe bullet wound in his
left breast. v
The three boys had been to ball
game and when passing the school
house on their return tested their
marksmahship by firing several shots
at the building. School was not in
session they were aware. and they be-
heved the building to be without an
occupant. However Mr. Schmitz
Glanced to be in the building, with
the result that he was struck by one OF
the bullets, which were of 22-caliber.
and which entered his body after
passing through the door of the school
house. AS it was purely an accident
no arrests were made.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY.
Three Men Killed In Mysterious Man
ner In q Warehouse.


ner In Warehouse.
A triple tragedy, the details Of
which will probably always remain a
mystery, occurred Sunday night at
Lynnville, Ky. A visitor to the ware
house owned by Mark Wilson, a prom
inent merchant. found the proprietor,
his brother, West Wilson. and Arthur
West lying on the floor shot to death.
Revolvers were found beside the bod
les of Arthur West and West Wilson.
Two citizens reported that they had
been at the warehouse shortly before
7o'clock and left the trio apparently
on good terms, although all had been
drinking.
The supposition Is that West Wilson
and Arthur West engaged in a shoot
ing ARRAY. killing each other, and that
one of the bullets struck Mark Will
son.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
Odd Fellows Election.

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows
elected officers at Hot Springs as fol-
lows: Grand master, John II. Nc
Laughlin, of Fort Randall; deputy
grand master, c. B. Knott, Bristol:
warden, Ruel E. Dana, Armour; sec
tary, Harvey j. Rice, Huron; treasur-
er, George w. Snow; grand represent
atiye, John M. Burgess. Spearish, The
next session will be held at Pierre.
The grand lodge sent s1,500 to San
Francisco. s s..
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
Bloody Fight In Cuba.

At Washington the navy department
has received the first report of a seri-
Gus fight which occurred at Guantan-
amo, Cuba, April 20. between Ameri-
can sailors and natives, in which one
American was shot and twenty-five
others were wounded.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
Hurry warshlp 70 Domlngo.

A Philadelphia special says: The
cruiser Columbia Is being hastily pre-
pared at League island for sea, and
will leave for Santo Domingo imme-
diately with 500 marines from Boston.
brooklyn, washington and Norfolk
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
slav Brute Murdered.

At Tamboff, Russia. zharoff, an of
ficer who participated in the brutal
maltreatment of Maria Spiridonovo.
was shot and killed on the streets
Thursday by an unknown person. The
avengers Of the young revolutionist re-
Gently meted out the same fate at Bo-
rissosiiebsk to Abramoff, the Cossack
officer, who boasted of his cruelty to
her while she was in prison.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
PROBABLY ENDED HIS LIFE.
Dakota Farmer Made Desperate by
Trouble.

Angered because his wife had be-
come infected with the divorce germ
as the result of reading of the divorce
colony irf Sioux Falls, and not willing
to longer submit to the tormenting of
his two sons. r. A. Stroman, a promi-
nent and wealthy farmer residing near
the village Of Tea, south of Sioux Falls,
has disappeared under circumstances
which indicate that he has ended his
life
Not the slightest trace has been
found of the missing man and his
body. If he carried out his threat il
has not yet been discovered. Those
who knew him best believe he went to
some secluded spot and took his own
life
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
OATH BINDING, ANYWAY.
Policeman's jSubterfuge Fails to Work
and He Goes to Prison.

FOilcemanS SuDteffuge Fails to Work
and He Goes to Prison.
A,St Louis special says: Policeman
John Dineen, a witness in a police
court case, was Wednesday night con-
victed Of perjury In the criminal court
and sentenced to two years in the pen
itentiary. Dineen's defense was that
when the oath was administered to
witnesses in the police court case he
stopped over and tied his shoestring
and thereby avoided raising his hand
and taking the oath, and therefore he
was not a sworn witness
He testified that it was common
practice of policemen to bend over and
tumble with their shoestrings when
they wished to keep from being
Sworn.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
PUSHING WORK ON RAILROAD.
Expected Pierre-Hills Line VIII BE
Finished by October.

The track laying machine has ar
rived in Rapid City. The railroad ex-
poets to begin laying track west from
Pierre by the first of June, and to
commence at Rapid City the 5th or
9Th. One hundred miles, at the rate
,of twenty-five miles per month, Will
be laid from Rapid City, and the en-
tire work of track laying for this .ex-
tension should be completed by Oc-
tober. r.. ~
The entire distance from Rapid to
Pierre is 1851 miles, and 1t is said
that the total cost of the road when
completed will not be less than So
600, 900 or 100000
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
Sbinment Of Polo Ponies.

A large shipment, comprising an
entire carload Of polo ponies, was
made few days ago by Gus Main
quist, who owns large ranch near
Rapid City. Mr.. Mainquist who is
one of the most expert polo men in the
country, has made it business for
several years to pick up and ship po.
nies suitable for this pastime.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
BABY KILLED, BROTHER MISSING
Two-Year-OId Child Found Dead I'm
a Barn. .-

Either an accidental killing or
murder has been enacted in a barn on
the farm of Ed Anderson, between
the town of Webster and Waubay. A
2-year-old son of Anderson was found
dead with a small hole in his head
and his brother. IL years OF age. Is
missing. 1t is not yet known whether
the boy was killed with a pitchfork or
a rifle bullet. 1t is believed that
through some accident the boy was
killed and the brother, fearing the
blame, ran away.
Anderson and his neighbors are now
securing the country in search OF the
missing boy
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
CONGREGATIONAL Onicers.

At the business session of the State
General Association of Congregational
Churches at Redfield the following of
ficers were elected: Rev. j. ID. Perrin,
OF Springfield. moderator; w. F. Ma
son. of Aberdeen. assistant moderator;
Rev. G. A. Downs, of Hudson, scribe:
lRevs G.. w. Kilbon, Hudson, assistant
scribe.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
To Bu,Id IIght New Elevators.

The Minneapolis and ST. Louis Rail-
road has decided to build eight eleva-
tors at the new town of Florence on
the extension from watertown to Leo
la. 1t has also been decided to build
elevators at all the stations on the
new line Officials of the company
are visiting the townsites and gather
ing statistics from farmers as to how
much grain is handled in an ordinary
season.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
Girl is Frontier Postmaster

Miss Hattie Bernstad. daughter OF
Representative A. c. Bernstad. OF Cod
ington County, has been made post
master of the new town of Florence.
the first of the new towns being built
by the Minneapolis and ST. Louis Rail-
roads extension from Watertown
west.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1906-05-24
STRANGE DoINGs ON A FARM.

Acre of Ground slides to Bottom OF a
w.. Declivity.
A Sioux Falls special says: a pc
culiar occurrence is reported on the
farm of Nels Lindskog, who lives near
the Missouri River in the southern
part of the state.
Without the slightest warning about
an acre of ground sitauted at the top
of a long slope slipped to the bottom
of the declivity. The mass OF thou-
sands of tons of earth swept down
ward with such rapidity that a num-
ber of cattle, which were grazing at
the base of the slope, were purieo
beneath the avalanche of earth.
What caused the landslide Is mys-
terry.