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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
WOULD STOP PLUNDERING.

The saturday Evening Post an or.
gan of the plutocracy, unconsciouslS
makes an excellent argument in favor
of government ownership of railroads
in an article in the last issue, ON the
Union Pacific stock manipulations OF
the past month.
If the government owned the road 4
the manipulations of the stock mar
kot to initiate values for speculative
purposes, resulting in ruined fortunes,
ruined characters, bankruptcy, dis
grace and suicide for some and afflu
euce ana opulence for others thru tho
legalized pluudering of the stock ex.
change, would all be avoided.
The Post says:
The Union Pacific was bilt in gooC
part by the public. The direct debt
to the national treasury for aid eX.
tended to the enterprise amounted
with accrued interest, to upward of
S5O,O00,0OC at the time of the reor.
ganization. The road was also given
an empire in public lands. 1t has
been selling these lands for 80 years
but still has about 100000 acres
with land assets valued at nearly S10,-
100000. Keep this in mind
The directors met on a Wednesday
and authorized the declaration of a
dividend for the half year (the pre-.
vious dividend having been at the rate
of per cent year,. The next day
the executive committee declared the
dividend, but kept its action secret.
At the opening of the Stock Elk.
change Friday it was announct thai
the dividend had been increast to 10
pc rcent year. Union Pacific stocl
advanct $17 per share. over 500,
shares were sold.
Next day there was some further
advance, with enormous sales. News
papers Llossomed with headline.
about the immense winnings of the
Hartman pool in the stock. In tive
Wild days about half the total out.
standing stock of the road was handl-
ed on the exchange at an average price
of about $50 a share. A month be
fore the sock mad sold under s140 4
share. Estimating the profits of tn,
pool. with numeral and seven ciph-
ecs was, naturally, pleasant exercise
for reportorial imaginations.
Merely operating a railroad is much
toe slow and dull a game for a really
up-to-date captain of industry. Ma.
nipulating its stock on the exchange
is far livelier and more profitable. We
often wonder why these gentlemen
bother about government regulation
maximum freight bills and the like
they can rig the stock market JUS
the same.
The constant tendency of high fl.
nance is to divorce the interest of tn,
men in control of great properties
from the interests of the properties
themselves.
The profit that a Union Pacific di.
rector could have made by increasing
the tonnage or lowering the operating
cost of the railroad would be mere
bagatelle compared with the gain he
could have made bv buying a proper
block of stock when he knew that
the dividend was going to be increast
and selling it out after the other stock.
holders and the public knew. WHY
should a Hepburn bill trouble them
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
WE ARINESS.

o little feet! that such long years
Must wander on thru hopes and fears,
Must ache and bleed beneath your
load;
I, nearer to the wayside inn
Where toll shall cease and rest begin,
Am weary, thinking of your road!
q, little hands, that weak or strong.
Have still to serve or rule so long,
Have still so much to give or ask;
1, who so much with book and pen
Have toiled among my fellow-men,
Am weary, thinking of your task!
q little hearts, that throb and beat
With such impatient, feverish heat
Such limitless and strong desires:
Mine, that so long has glowed and
burned,
With passions into ashes turned
Now covers and conceals its fires.
o little souls! as pure and white
And chrystalline as rays of light
Direct from heaven, their source
divine:
Rcfracted through the mist of years
How red my setting sun appears,
How lurid looks this soul of mine!
H. w. Longfellow
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
PLANTATIONS IN SAMOA.

Consul General George H@imrod, of
Aria. responds to American inquiries
as to tropical agriculture in Samoa,
as follows:
Land suitable for planting can be
leased from natives from 25 to IS
cents per annum. The area Of freehold
land is limited and the cost varies
from $40 to 500 per acre. clearing
expenses running up to s14. The cost
of planting cocoanuts and bringing
them up to the eighth year, when a
return can be expected, is S135 per
acre. The cost for cocoa plantations
until the sixth year runs from $3.50 to
$175 per acre, and rubber $3.50 to
s165. Vanilla does not pay to fertil-
iZe.
In Samoa most of the land near the
water front is owned by the natives
and is studded thickly with cocoanut
palms. planted without order or sys-
tenn. They extend back from the
coast for miles to an elevation not
exceeding 500 feet, and in such prox-
unity to the coast that the palms get
the benefit of the moisture carried by
the trade winds from the sea.
In plantation systems the trees are
placed 20 to 80 feet apart The aver
age yield per acre is from 700 to 1000
pounds. thou 1900 to 400 pounds is
not an uncommon Weld. The large
planters use the hot-air system for
driving copra, and copra thus treated
can be used for confectionery pur-
poses. The average price Of copra in
Apia during 1905 was $3.50 per ton,
delivered (. o. b. ship.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
WIN. T-NI'sFtN NVIOLs
A Man of Prominence in School Circles
and 0verseer of the Poor Says
Pe-ru-na Has Proven a Most
Eficacious Remedy.

Herman Reese, Is New Butternut st.,
Syracuse, N. Y, is President OF the
Board Of Trustees OF Webster graded
schools, Dist. s, in the town Of Salina.
He Is also overseer OF the Poor,
which position has afforded him ample
opportunity for noting the causes of
disease, as we'll as the best means Of
preventing and curing the same.
He expresses his approval of the use
Of Peruna as very effective means OF
solving problem of such h vital interest
to the community, as follows
Exposure seems 10 affect the lungs
and kidneys of rhe poor and have
seen hundreds of these who were
brokendOwn In health from this cause.
81 am pleased TO tell you thst
PeruHa has proven most efficacious
remedy In a number OF cases where
no other medicine was used.
81 consider II a specific for any dis.
orders Of the respiratory organs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
Idaho Sheep King Sells Ont.

1t has just come to light that Chris
Theissen has dispozed of all his sheep
holdings to British Columbia and
North Yakima parties.
1t seems that some time ago Mr..
Theissen sold to ]. DeHaven, rep
rezenting the Pat Burns company OF
British Columbia, 5000 head, that he
has been making deliveries on the
same at different times and that the
last delivery. amounting to 1000 head
was made few days ago.
About the 18th of this month Mr..
Thessen sold TO NJ. Berg of North
Yakima the bulk of his holdings
about 1900 head. out of all his vast
flocks Mr.. Theissen has only one buck
left to remind him of his former days
as one of Idaho's sheep kings.-Lewis-
ton Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
THE GREATEST EVENT.

The East Oregonian is familiar with
the history of the fairs of eastern Or
egon, and it says unhesitatingly that
the greatest fair in point of attend
ance, interest and genuine amusement
and instruction ever held in eastern
Oregon will close its doors in Pendle-
ton tonight.
The Umatilla-M county fair
sets pace in eastern Oregon. 1t is
now an establish institution, a per-
manent and fixt event in the district
and the OBJECT OF THE PEOPLE
OF BOTH COUNTIES SHOULD BE
TO ADD TO IT ANNUALLY UNTIL
IT REALLY BECOMES THE ONE
CHIEF ATTRACTION IN THE EN-
TIRE EASTERN OREGON SECTION
EVERY YEAR.
The state fair at Salem is a state
event. 1t draws people from every
county and creates an interest thru
out the entire northwest. 1t would
be extremely egotistical for Umatilla
and Morrow counties to attempt to
rival the state fair, but in sense, the
fair at Pendleton should be to eastern
Oregon what the state fair is to the
state-a rally of the Industrial and
commercial forces of this entire Sec
ton in a grand display of resources
and in a friendly rivalry for super
iority in the homely arts and indus
tries of the great inland empire.
THE COUNTY COURTS OF UNA
TILLA AND MORROW COUNTIES
SHOULD NOW FURNISH A PART
OF THE FUNDS NECESSARY TO
ERECT A PERMANENT PAVILION,
THE LEGISLATURE SHOULD AP-
PROPRIATE SUFFICIENTLY TO
AID IN THIS AND THEN THE PEO-
PIE OF THE TWO COUNTIES
SHOULD GO DOWN IN THEIR
POCKETS AND FINISH THE JOB.
What is absolutely necessary is a
fixt place in which to hold the fair.
When a permanent pavilion is secur-
ed, then everything accumulated can
be plact there. There will be home
for the fair. Permanent exhibits may
be plact in the pavilion, grains,
grasses, manufactured articles and
other imperishable stuff may be stor-
ed there and It would be the head
quarters and permanent home for the
association.
All efforts should be bent toward
securing permanent and substantial
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29

waste upon American farms is pro-
digious.
Special attention must be paid to
the economics of production II the in
dustry of agriculture is to be accom-
panied by profitable returns, without
such rapidly increasing cost of farm
staples as to become serious burden
upon the consuming public.
Much attention is paid to plans for
saving in the cost of distributing sta
pie commodities, by efforts at holding
down transportation rates, and 1t is
the opinion of the government experts
that some material rezults may be OBJ
tanned by more careful attention on
the part of the American farmer to
economy in production.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
is 1T LACK OF PATRIOTISM?

An old soldier complains to the
East Oregonian that the people at
tending the county fair this week
have utterly failed to arise to their
feet, in the perfunctory fashion, when
the "Star Spangled Banner" and other
patriotic selections have been played
by the De Caprio band.
However, the old soldier may find
consolation In the fact that the audi
ence went wild one evening when the
strains of "Dixle" caused even the
posts and pillars of the pavilion to
tremble.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29

Money may pay the pressing obli-
cations of temporal judgments; but
at best money is merely counter in
the game, and he who cheats to get
the cotnters has not won the game"
William Allen White in The Ameri-
can Magazine for October.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29

pavilion. Pendleton will do her share
as SHE has done even more than her
Just share in bearing the expense Of
the fair just closing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29
. ..........s.ssssss

. He is not old because his hair .
. is gray,
Because his eyes have grown .
little dim;
. With boyish hopes he greets .
. each newborn day;
. He is not old because his hair is .
gray;
. Though he has come long and .
. toilsome way,
The spirit of glad youth be- .
. longs to him:
. He is not old because his hair .
. is gray,
. Because his eyes have grown .
. little dim.
H. .
. Il is not lack of years that .
. keeps us young. .
. It is not age that frosted hair .
. reveals: .
. Youths hopeful challenge to the .
. world is flung
. It il not lack of years that keeps .
us young.
. For they are old who choose to .
. stand among .
. The ones to whom romance Q
. no more appeals. .
. l. is not lack of years that keeps .
. us young,
. Il is not age that frosted hair .
. reveals. .
. S. f. Kiser. .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29

ferryboat carrying 200 Hiudus
across the Indus river, capsized and
40 of the passengers were drowned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-09-29

Roosevelt makes no secret OF his
rlcazure at the nomination Of Hughes
for governor Of New York.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
NEW BANKING BILL.
Provides for Lending Money on Real
Estate as Security-Places Limit on
Such Loans.


Washington, Dec. 5.-The house
today, waiting on the report Of ap-
preparation bills, began its legislative
grind by passing three measures in
cooperating the National German AL
lance; authorizing tn secretary of
the treasury to duplicate gold certifi-
Gates in lieu of ones lost or destroyed,
and the bill amending the national
banking laws, permitting national
banking associations to make loans
on real estate as security and limiting
the amount Of such loans.
The banking bill has been one Of
the Vests favorite measures and the
leaders in the house from that Sec
ton lined up generally in favor Of
the legislation, which it was asserted
would go far toward popularizing the
national banks. The opponents Of
the bill, Democrats and Republicans,
insisted that real estate was not a
proper security for loan, even
though limit was placed on the loan.
The advocates Of the measure were
toe. strong, however, and the bill was
passed two to one.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
Z NEW sEABoARD DEAL.
Rumored That the Southern Will
Give Up It's Charleston Line to the
], Seaboard.

Charleston, Dec. 9.-It is rumored
in railway circles here that the
Southern railway and the Seaboard
Air Line have come to an agreement
by which the former will turn over
its line to Charleston, formerly the
old South Carolina railroad, enabling
the Seaboard Air Line to enter
Charleston, which has been planned
for some time. The story seems i'm
probable in a way, but it is being per-
sistently circulated and there may be
some foundation for it. The plans
of the Seaboard Air Line as generally
understood, were to build a direct
line to Charleston from Lugoff, near
Camden, but the acquisition Of the
Southern railway route would be pre-
ferable, it is said, to the construction
Of new road. It is argued that the
Southern railway has no direct inter
est in Charleston, its terminals being
at other ports, which is the cause Of
much Of Charleston's complaints Of
discrimination, and it is perhaps true,
that with the settlement of the form
er antagonism which formerly pre-
vailed between these two systems and
the Atlantic Coast Line, and the ad-
justment Of conflicting interests, the
Southern railway may now be willing
to part with its branch line to
Charleston. Some time ago on Wis
it Of the late President Spencer Of
the Southern railway to Charleston
he spoke very assuringly Of proper
realization Of the geographical and
natural advantages Of the port Of
Charleston, and he might have had
in mind the present project Of the
Seaboard Air Line taking over this
branch line and making it a part Of
it's system, and erecting new termi-
nails at Charleston.
None of the railroad people in au-
thority would have anything to say
for publication about the story and.
as stated, it is not known how much
truth thre is in the rumor.-The
State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
FRaTERS1TY HOUSE BURNED.
,A Fatal Fire at Cornell University
Loss $200, ,00e.

s nhiea. \. Y, Dec. Five men
we're killed, two fatally injured and
several seriously, in q fire which de-
stroyed the Chi Pal Fraternity House
OF Cornell University early this morn
ing Two Of the dead are students,
while the other three are volunteer
Ifremen.
Twenty-seven students were sleep
ing in the house when the fire started
in the kitchen range. One was burn
ed to death in his room and theother
was so daddy burned in escapiny that
he died later. Those VINO escaped
jumped from the windows. A falling
wall crushed the three fremen. In-
adequate water service made it im-
possible 10 fight the flames. The en-
tire building, which was valued at
100000, was destroyed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
FISH FIGHTING TRUSTS.
LATE PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS
CENTRAL STARTLES WALL
STREET.
Stuyvesant Fish Delivers a Speech
Denouncing Anarchistic Rich and
Asserts That High Financial Circles
Are Permeated With Dishoncste
and Disregard of Law and De-
cency.

New York, Dec. 7.-,stuyvesant
Fish, the recently deposed president
OF the Illinois Central Railroad, has
thrown bombshelI into Wall street
through a speech delivered last night
attacking corporations and the "an-
archistic rich
IT is reported in financial dis
tricts that Fish proposes to assist
President Roosevelt in his future in
vestigations of railroads and trusts.
In his speech Mr.. Fish declared dis
honesty is the issue and Roosevelt is
the one to control it.
ssThat there has been mal-adminis-
tration, not to say stealing, in many
of our corporations is a matter OF
common notoriety," he said. "Some
men have ogne to great lengths in
ridding from the restraints of law,
equity, ethics and even common de-
cency, themselves and those with
them in the higher circles of
finance"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
THE NOBEL PRIZE,
President Roosevelt viii Establish
Permanent Industrial Peace Com,
mission.

Washington, Dec. 1o.-Mr. G.
Hague, the minister from Norway.
called at the White House today, and
informed President Roosevelt that
the Norwegian Parliament had con.
ferred upon him the Nobel peace
prize at Christiana.
Minister Peirce was directed by the
president to read q message to the
Storthing from him, extending his
thanks for himself and on behalf Of
the people of the United States.
The president says: "After much
thought, I have concluded that the
best and most fitting way to apply the.
amount of the prize is by using 1t as a.
foundation to establish at Washington !
a permanent industrial peace cona-
mission. The object viii be to strive
for better and more equitable rela.-
tons among my countrymen who.
are engaged, whether as Capitalists or
wage workers, in industrial or agra.
cultural pursuits"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
SUMTER. S. c.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER IL. 1906.
CHURCH AND STATE.
THE RELIGIOUS ROW Is ON IN
EARNEST IN FRANCE.
The Government and the Catholics
Are Expected to Clash Over the En-
forcement Of Law Separating
Church and State-Evichon Of
Priests Will Cause Trouble.

Paris, Dec. 1.-THE law for the
separation Of church and state be-
came effective today. AS the Pope
has forbidden Catholics to conform
to the law allowing religious societies
to be formed to take over church
property it means that ownership
passes to the state. The churches
throughout France stand on the
verge Of eviction.
Serious times are anticipated if
the government moves to evict the
priests from churches, schools and
monasteries and troops will probably
be required to enforce the law.
The cabinet today voted to pro-
ceed Immediately to liquidate the
property in churches and rectories.
This shows that the government is
determined to uphold the law vigo-
rously. The next few days it is fear
ed Will see a religious outbreak, with
bloodsned, as the Catholics seem de-
termined to resist the law.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
sToMACH,s mPoRTANCE
How to Strengthen it so That it WIZ
Act as it Should.

The stomach is the principal organ
concerned in the digestion of food. e
it is weak, inactive or out Of order
and unable to properly digest the
food, the body will soon be in state
Of semi-stavation.
Then, too, when the stomach Is
weak, the food is not properly digest>
ed and lies in it for hours, decompos.
ing, fermenting and forming poison
Gus gases and ptomaines that are ab-
sorbed into the blood, poisoning the
system and impoverishing the blood.
no enjoy good health, it is abso-
lutely necessary that the stomach and
digestive organs should be strong, and
no other remedy equals Mi-o-na Ia
strengthening and giving tone to the
whole digestive system.
Relief from the use cf Mi-o-na Is
permanent and lasting. Use Mi-o-na
for few days. and the digestion wilt
be good, the appetite keen, and there
will be no nausea or distress after
eating, no sleeplessness, and the
headaches, backaches and disturbed
heart action that are the direct result
of weakened stomach will soon be
overcome.
Mi-o-na is sold under an absolute
guarantee that the money will be re-
funded unless the remedy does all
that is claimed for it. Ask J. F. ".
DeLorme to show you the guarantee
which he gives with every 5o-cent
box.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
MARK TWAIN, LOBBYIST.
The Famous Humorist Appears
Washington in New Role.

Washington, Dec. S.-Mark Twain,
who is lobbying for the new copyright
law, has made a demand on Speaker
Cannon for the privilege Of going on
the floor Of the house to buttonhole
members.
In a characteristic letter he says he
let congress alone seventy-one years
ago and is entitled to its thanks. He
said he had lots Of arguments with
him, also a barrel with liquid in it.
Speaker Cannon explained that he
could not grant the floor privilege,
but gave Twain his private room,
where the humorist is lobbying mem
,ters in support OF. his bill, Twain has
also called at the White House.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
LEOPOLD DENIES CHARGES.
KING OF BELGIUM SAYS Afro
CITIES ARE NOT PERMITTED.
The Charges Against Government of
Congo Free State Are Made By
Ignorant Persons Who Do Not
Know the Real Facts.
copyrighted by Publishers Press
Associaticr.)

Associaticr.)
Brussels, Dec. 10.-The CORES
pondent Of the publishers Press was
today received in private audience by
King Leopold for an interview on
Congo. King Leopold denies the
charges Of general atrocities practic-
ed on the blacks in the Congo State.
There have been cases Of nlisiudg"
ment on the part Of officials, but
these have been punished. Every ef-
fort is made to protect the natives,
not only from the whites, but each
other.
Leopold complained that he has
been painted as monster by per-
sons who got their information sec
ond-handed Individual cases of cru
city have been magnifed into gener-
alties.
The king asked the correspondent
if he carried revolver to protect
himself from such a monster, and
how he dared to risk his life thus.
Leopold denied that he has ever
made cent out of the Congo State.
On the contrary, he has spent mil
lions in developing the region. The
work will go on and his sole hope is
to improve the country and better
the conditions of the natives.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
EXCLUDE NEGROES.
Bill in House Barring the Blacks
From Army Service.

Washington, Dec. 4.-Rcp-esenta-
tive Slayden Of Texas, today intro
duced bill which provides that ION
OK before the 30th day Of June, 1907,
all enlisted men of the army who are
negroes Or Of negro descent be dis
charged from the service Of the Uni
ted States and thereafter no negro or
person of negro descent Shall be en-
listed or appointed in the army Of
the United States
In explaining his bill 1-r. Slayden
said: "The bill speaks for itself 1t
was not introduced for buncombe. My
purpose is to give the congress Of the
United States an opportunity to purge
the army Of an admittedly dangerous
element To say that the negroes are
brave is not an argument against this
measure. Many men have been
brave, in fact most men are in the
matter Of fighting. The Comanche
and Sioux Indians were as brave as
men can be. But no one would Sc
riously suggest that we ultimately re-
cruit regiments from them, put guns
in their hands and station them near
companies Of white troops, toward
whom they entertain inherent race
hostility. The Twenty-fifth infantry
is manifestly imbued with the same
race hostility and events have shown
it to be quite as dangerous as the
Sioux or Comanche would be-"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-12-12
KING LEopoLD.s INTERVIEW.

London, Dec. 1.-THE action Of
King Leopold of Belgium in giving an
interview on Congo affairs to the
Publishers Press, has aroused great
interest throughout Europe. The
German papers take the stand that
this is another indication Of the
american peril They say the
monarch is discredited in Europe and
is trying to rehabilitate himself in
America. The United States newspa-
pers are becoming the supreme court
of the worlds opinion, and Europe
wont tolerate this. Throughout Eng
land, France and Italy there is the