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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, June 2S.-A foot Of land
in these latter days means a great
deal. Land which the Dutch burghers
who considered themselves pretty
| good on a bargain, would have sold
with eagerness at s5 an acre, is today
selling for that price and more per
inch. Here is a lease which calls for
the payment of s25.51 per square
| foot rent for a space which covers
| only 1868 square feet on two floors.
This valuable space is located in the
tower building they are going to erect
| on the corner of Broadway and Wall
street, and run up to the height of Is
| stories, or 235 feet. The room is so
| precious that the elevators are opened
| right into the offices.
1t may be that enough business can
| be done in an office with such a linn
tied area; but 1t seems doubtful. If it
can be earned anywhere in New York,
| II Is on the spot on which that build
ing will be reared, as the corner of
Wall and Broadway is about the busi-
est place on the continent
The United States Cigar Store COM
pany will occupy this diminutive Of
flee. This company is leasing all the
desirable corners it can find, and al
ready has even 400 stores in the city.
But 1t will take a great many puffs
| to pay that rent, and the cigars sold
there will have to be almost as costly
as Mr.. Morgan's, who is reputed to
| pay 81 apiece for his strong cigars.
| However, he does not buy them in
stores on Broadway but imports them
direct from Cuba.
| Pier Rentals Being Reduced.
| New York city has found that the
policy of charging the great ocean
steamship companies such very high
rentals for the piers it lets them have
does not pay and that it meant the
killing of the goose that was laying
some very fine eggs for the city. Some
| of the companies began to make very
active and vigorous efforts to get piers
elsewhere, and II was not at all i'm
probable that Philadelphia, Boston
Newport News, Baltimore and New
Orleans might get the huge vessels.
But a change has come over the
dreams of the city authorities, and in
stead of considering the big lines as
good subjects from which to squeeze
money, they have begun to revise their
rates and have given the steamship
lines to understand that they wish to
be considered their friends, and will
make them at home, with lighter
rents, and additional privileges. There
are some things that a big city cannot
do, any more than a small city, or an
Individual.
Drunk With $4,000 i'm His Clothes.
i One can't have a good time In this
city any more just as one wants it
Time has been when a man could lie
down on stoops or the steps in front
of almost any building in the city, and
so long as he was drunk nobody would
disturb him, unless some thief or
; plunder bound. 1t did not matter
how much money he had in hi.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29
VIII Cure Consumption.

A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark, writes:
"Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
preparation for coughs. colds and
lung trouble. know that It has
cured consumption in the first
stages" You never heard of any one
using Foley's Honey and Tar and not
being satisfied. Koeppens' drug store.
w. R. Ward of Dyersburg. Tenn,
writes: "This is to certify that have
used Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup for
chronic constipation, and It has
proven, without a doubt, to be a thor
ough, practical remedy for this trou-
BILE, and 1t is with pleasure I offer
my conscientious reference" Keep
pens drug store.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29

A man who is in perfect health, so
he can do an honest days work when
necessary, has much for which he
should be thankful. Mr.. L. c. Rodg-
ers, Of Branchton, Pa, writes that he
was not only unable to work, but he
couldn't stoop over to tie his own
shoes. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney
Cure made new man Of him. He
says, Success to Foleys Kidney
Cure" Koeppens' drug store.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29

clothes, so long as no dishonest man

clothes, so long as no dishonest man
suspected it.
But here comes August Weber, who
falls asleep on a stoop in the most
dangerous part of the City of
Churches. He was full of liquor and
his clothes were full of money, but
nobody knew it until he was examined
in court, and it was found that he had
with him a bank roll of $4,000. It
transpired that Weber had deserted
his wife and was living around as
common hobo, not putting his money
in the banks because he distrusted
them. AS his wife proved to be des-
titute the court made Weber peel off
$4,000 for his wife. Weber seemed to
consider his spree very costly, as he
did not intend to give his wife penny.
Predicted Paralytic Stroke.
How hard it is to tell from all the
diagnoses that physicians can make,
be no certain way of determining what
mans health really is. Gen. Ralph
Brandeth, the wealthy clubman and
business man, waged a fight against
death four years after the doctors had
said he could not live before an i'm
pending apoplectic stroke which they
saw in his eyes when examined for
life insurance, would make an end
of him. He was apparently in perfect
and rugged health when the doctors
used an apthalmoscope, and declared
that they discovered in his eye unmis-
taxable indications of a paralytic or
apoplectic stroke, which would doubt
less be fatal.
General Brandreth entered Bloom
ingdale asylum. practically as a dead
man, and allowed the doctors to con-
duct him through the narrow margin
of years that the other doctors had
left him, and died short time ago as
the doctors said he would, basing their
predictions on the unfailing evidence
afforded by the opthalmoscope.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29
FUEL WILL BE CHE APER.
Cost of Making Den, sturlze d Alcohol
Is Very Nc derate.

The following rer ,ort was prepared
for the Philadelphi a north american
by an expert on t ne charac ter and
uses of denaturize Il alcohol " 'hile the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-06-29
THE BEET CROP PAYS
UNION COUNTY WILL
HARVEST 10000 TONS.

About 400 Acres of Beets in Grand
ROnde Valley.-Of This Amount
1000 Acres Is Perfect Stand
UmatilIa Indians Now Working I'm
the Fields-La,bor VIII Be Very
Scarce.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
NAVAL RANK AS
ADVERTISEMENT

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 16.
The navy department is determ-
ined to protect naval titles from
commercial contamination by their
use for advertising purposes, and
Civil Engineer F. c. Prindle, U. S.
N, retired, who makes his home
In this city and who draws the
Pay of rear admiral by virtue of
civil war service. will be required
to change the name of the Admiral
Prindle Mining company. The Of
ficer was officially reported recently
for "reprehensible conduct" in max
ing use of the naval title in connec-
ton with business concern. 1t
was considered particularly objec-
tionable that he used a title which
he really had no right to employ in
connection with his name under any
circumstances.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
FOR GREATER
!. WEST POINT
fScr;pps News Association,

fScr;pps News Association,
WEST POINT, N. Y, March is.
The purchase of Constitution ISL
and in the Hudson as an addition
to the military reservation of West
Point has been recommended by the
secretary of war In letter to con-
gress. Secretary Taft at the same
time submitted reports from off,
GERS of the war department and
from General Mills, superintendent
of the academy, to show that the
academy needs more room. He rec
commended that an item be incor-
porated in the military academy ap-
preparation bill for $175,000. It's
area is $50 acres and it has long
been the property of the Werner
family. On the island are the re-
mains of breastworks begun in ITS
and completed later by Kosciusko.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

Another queer fight took place in
New York the other night before
one of Gothams mushroom clubs.
Willie Gibbs and Mike Egan were
the star performers. Fighting saw
agely in a clinch in the second
round, the men fell through the
ropes to the floor without break
ing their hold. where they fought
as desperately as though they were
still in the ring. The referee clug
to the ropes and watched the men
fight in the space that was quickly
cleared for them by the spectators.
1t finally became necessary for the
spectators to forcibly pull the men
apart.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
DRUNKARD AT
AGE OF lO8
(Ecrfpps News Association.s


WASHINGTON, d. c., March 16.
Barney Hughes, now in the dis
trict Jail under short sentence
of Imprisonment for drunkenness,
is celebrating his 10Sth birthday to-
day. The keeper of the Jail has
permitted the old man to enjoy
special privileges in honor of his
birthday and Hughes is compare
lively happy. Many person have
sent him gifts of money and deli
cacies. Hughes was found guilty
of habitual drunkenness by a jury
in Justice Barnard's court about
two weeks ago and notwithstanding
his bold assertion that he had not
touched a drop Of liquor for seven
years the old man was found guilty
and sent to Jail to sober up.
Hughes remembers the war of 1872
with great distinctness.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Grand Opera for Coast Cities.

Nine. Gadski is to be the star in
new grand opera company that is
being formed by San Francisco cap.
ital. The plans for the formation
of the company are practically com.
pleted and several Of the singers of
the Metropolitan Opera company
this season will SO to the new Or
ganization. The company is the
direct outcome of the fight that has
been waged against the Metropoli.
tan for several seasons. The new
opera company will be known as
the Gadski Opera company, and it
is the intention to simply play a 10
weeks engagement on the coast
next season as commencement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

Il want to get into the Zambesi
district before it is too civilized"
said the famous surgeon, who goes
into Central Africa for a hunting
trip and to study the savages. He
says he sees enough of civilized
people in Chicago, his home. 1t is
going to be his vacation.
e DIR. Sem is known as a specialist
in abdominal surgery who has
worldwide fame. He was chief sur
geon of the Sixth army corps in the
Spanish war and went to Japan as
chief surgeon of the Japanese army
at the outbreak of the war. He is
a native of Switzerland.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Local Bowling,
oot-ball, Pool
and Box.
Ing

Kid Scaler is after Solly Stroup.
the clever Alaska fighter. who has
asked for a fight in Spokane. but
who will not go on as prelimin-
ary. Scaler states he will box
Stroup at 1913 or 1870 pounds before
any club in Spokane.
Stroup has a good reputation as
a fighter. He beat Sandy Maxwell
twice, once in the second round and
once in the ninth. 1t took Battling
Nelson IL rounds to dispose Of
Maxwell.
Scaler has also received a letter
from Jimmie Potts of Montana, who
wishes a fight with him. Potts
states he will fight at 1873 at 8 p. m.
the day of the go. Scaler states
he will fight Potts, but the Montana
man must make 129 at o'clock
or no fight.
Scaler's proposed fight with Kid
Bernstein, which was to have come
off March 80 at Standpoint, has been
called off. The police will not let
the fight go on.
Q Q Q
The intercollegiate fencing tour
nament between the crack teams of
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell,
Pennsylvania, West Point, Prince
ton and Annapolis will open tonight
at the New York Athletic club gym
nasium. The tournament will be
concluded tomorrow evening. 1t Is
by far the largest and most import
ant event of that kind which has
taken place in this country and is
attracting considerable attention.
The work of the fencers will be
closely watched by the experts Of
the United States army and navy.
The tournament which will be.
gin this evening. will be conducted
under a new plan, which will cause
a considerable decrease in the num-
Der of bouts to be fought for first
honors. Under the former system
Qyprv man eptarnd was nhliOad IN
fnece every other man, and the re-
suit was An entirely too large SER
les. To obviate the unwieldy char
acter of the round robin series,
which would have been larger than
ever this year owing to the admis-
sion of Princeton to the league, a
compromise between the old style
and the elimination method has
been effected.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
More Ships for Japanese.

The statement is made by an Of
ficer of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
that that company was about to pur-
chase the Pacific Mail line of steam.
ships operating out of San Fran
cisco, including the Mongolia, Ko-
rea. Siberia and Manchuria, the
largest vessels of their class sail
ing from the California metropolis.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha now
owns 120 vessels, which hun from
Japanese ports to the principal
ports Of the entire globe. The gross
tonnage so controlled is 100000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
World Of Sport

There will be eight teams COM
peting for the championship. Each
team will consist of three fencers,
and instead of each man meeting
every other, the "a contestants will
draw for positions and be divided
into three squads of eight men
each. In the first days meet each
man will meet every other man in
his squad, and the three teams hav-
ing the lowest total Of victories will
be dropped. The others will ad-
vance to the finals. In this way
only 144 bouts will be fenced, with
eight teams entered, as against 189
last year, with one team less. The
Judges this year will be graduates
of the competing colleges, together
with three judges selected from the
New York clubs.
Some statistics Of unusual inter-
est concerning the automobile in
dustry in the United States have
just been brought out in the liti-
cation over the Seldom patent in
New York. According to official
figures. as sworn to in the United
States circuit court, the total mum.
Der of vehicles manufactured and
imported under license from Jan. 1,
1908, to Jan. /, 1906, was 1896.
The valuation of these cars was
500, 141, 437.22, and the royalties
paid On them to the licensors was
S814,1S3.52. All of the figures CIV
en- represent cars actually sold.
o o o
The proposed fight between In
dian Joe Gregg and an unknown in
Rossland the Gath of March has
been called off. The unknown has
backed out for some reason.
An effort will be made to send
either Scaler Or Harrison north to
fight the unknown or some good
man on the date set for the Gregg
fight.
o o @
Kid Parker and Maurice Thomp-
son are training hard for their
fight the latter part of the month.
The boys are training outdoors in
the mornings and behind closed
doors in the afternoon. The Pas
time club decided that the crowds
were getting too large at their club
rooms to give the boys plenty Of
fresh air and room. oBth the boys
are rounding into good shape.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Big Strike at Nome.

Capt. e. w. Johnson of Seattle
has received complete advices OF
the rich strike made on his Nome
mining property about month ago
from his father in law, who has
been working the property this win.
ter. According to the advices re.
ceived by Captain Johnson, the
strike is one of the richest ever
made in the Nome district, the pay
streak giving all the way from $40O
TO $500 to the pan.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
w. c. T. U. Enters Protest,

The Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union has filed a vigorous for.
NAL protest with the Seattle cham.
Der of commerce against any ia.
vorable action which that body
might take On the application OF
Sol LeVinson, a prominent wine
grower, who has asked he cham.
Der to aid him in securing from
the government the same courtesies
that are extended to other wine
growers, who are allowed the free
use OF brandy in terrifying their
wines.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Relief for Settlers.

A favorable report on the senate
bill for the relief of settlers along
the line of the Northern Pacific
between Wallula and Portland, was
ordered by the house committee on
public lands. The measure permits
settlers to retain possession of their
lands and grants to the company
authority to make lieu selections
for their lands.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Searching for Inheritance.

Johnny Oya, full blooded Indian
whose father was a great medicine
man of the now diminishing tribe of
Humptulips, is in Hoquiam trying
to obtain the papers belonging to
his father which gives him a valu-
able tract of land just outside that
city's limits. Young Oya's father
was paralyzed by being struck on
the head by another Indian during
drunken orgy, and since then has
lived but is unable to speak a word.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
EXCURSION TO CALIFORNIA.

The commercial organizations of
Washington will run an excursion
to Los Angeles, leaving Spokane on
March Is. Special sleeper will be
attached to N. p. train No. 8, i0:45
p. m, joining special train from Sc.
attic, The rate for round trip, in.
Guiding sleeping car berth and all
expenses on going trip, which is TO
occupy seven days. is s9i.55. Call
at Northern Pacific city office, Zieg.
Ter block, and get one of the timer.
aries. giving full details of the trip.
Everybody is invited to join. Spo-
kane will certainly send a good
delegation. Reserve your sleeping
car accommodations early. Return
limit. June Is.
A. TIMING.
" General Agent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Colored Clergyman in Trouble.

Because Rev. j. b. Beckham, col
ored Methodist divine, went TO Spo-
kane to preach the gospel determ-
ined effort is being made to deprive
him of his $1,000 homestead near
COulee City. William Wood Is con-
testing the claim, his allegation be-
ing that Beckham was a minister
in Spokane and not a homesteader
within the meaning of the law.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Close Gambling at Georgetown.

Prosecuting Attorney Macintosh,
Of King county yesterday notified
the gambling houses in George.
town, five miles out of Seattle, that
they must be closed by April list
If the order is not obeyed he will
convict them of gambling in the
past. II the clubs close no prose
cutions will be started.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Snake River Fruit Growers Lose.

Fruit growers of the Snake river
valley admit that frost has caused
heavy losses to the crop. The ad-
missions are made reluctantly. be-
cause they feel that fruitgrowers
of other localities are trying to
cover up actual loses, and further
because they believe there is yet
chance with favorable conditions
for good part Of the crop.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
FOR SALE By OWNER.

Good, modern, nine room house,
two large lots, two blocks from
first class car line, all kinds OF
fruits and berries, place we'll i'm.
proved. The value of the lots Is
increasing very fast. The property
will make good paying invest.
ment or an ideal home. Part cash
required. Address x, care of The
Press. sss
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Skyscraper for Seattle.

President Moritz Thomson of the
Centennial Milling company, and A.
M. Springer, a heavy Seattle prop
erty owner, are to erect a ID story
steel hotel building in Seattle at
the northeast corner of Sixth ave-
nue. south and jackson street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Wright Nominated in Tacoma.

The Tacoma democratic city con-
last night nominated Geo.
P. Wright for mayor, l.. H. Pearson
for controller, and Francis Mating
ly for treasurer. The only contest
in the convention was over the may
orally nomination.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Food for Famine Sufferers.

When the Kanagawa Maru sails
from Sound ports for the orient
next Tuesday she will carry the
third and probably the last ship
ment of foodstuffs for the Japanese
famine sufferers in the three north
ern provinces.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Portland Council Grants Franchise

After a session of the Portland
city council lasting from early af
ternoon until well into the evening
the United Railways company
which is composed of Los Angeles
capitalists, was granted. by almost
unanimous vote, a franchise along
Front street in that city. The city
council received $150.000 for the
franchise.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
TAKE TT NOW.

It's not too late to prevent serious
heart troubles If you will take DR..
Miles Heart Cure at once. when you
have dizzy spells. shortness of breath.
tuttering OF the heart. irregular
pulse. weak or hungry spells. These
are early. hut argent. symptoms of
heart weakness, and must be given
immediate attention. Money back If
3rst bottle falls to benefit.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

Mrs. Hetty Green, sometimes
called the richest woman In the
United States and who is probably
the greatest woman financier in the
United States. is soon TO retire.
She was born in 1885 and there
fore is now II years old. Up in
Bellows Falls, VT, Mrs. Green has
big. old fashioned place she calls
home, although business kept her
in New York most of the time.
1t is her intention to go to the
Bellows Falls home and spend her
remaining years there.
Her husband died four years ago
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Will Plant oystery, on the Sound.

Darby 6 Immal of South Bend.
Wash. have ordered 10 carloads Of
seed oysters from the east for
spring delivery; the Brown Oyster
company. 10 carloads; the Occiden-
tai Oyster company, seven car.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
NOTICE TO
susscRlsERs

Should your copy of Tho Press faiy
to reach you by 9 O'Clock any eve-
ning. please do us the favor TO call
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telephone us every time you miss ~
In this way we can BIO certain %
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tcs-and u II the only way.
THE SPOKANE PRESa
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
Have No Union.

Evidence has been produced by
Seattle newspapers that in some
instances the Cascade laundry paid
only 60 cents to girls employed by
them for II hours work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
English Troops to Vacate.

There is to be a change in the
manning of the Esquimalt forts af-
ter May 1. On that date the i'm
perial forces will igve place to Can
adian permanent corps.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

The report was extensively cir
culated that Geo. Tebeau had offer
ed Marvin Hart a place on his Lou
isville team at second base. Moth
ing to it," is the way Tebeau dis
posed of the report.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

Jas. d. Lightbody, the crack Chi
cago athlete, has decided to join
the American contestants at the
Olympic games. He is one of the
country's best distance runners and
will strengthen Americas chances
to carry off some of the honors.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

'In nothing that l do hereafter"
says Jas. John Jeffries, Twill there
ever be a suspicion of the prize
ring" Having done and been done
in the prize ring, Mr.. Jeffries is
now willing to live it down, if the
public will give him half a shance.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16
bits Of NORTHWEST h[W5

loads, and Andrew Writ, two car
| loads. These will all be planted
in the oyster grounds Of Willapa
1 bay.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-03-16

If Sunday base ball is discon-
tlnued in Toledo, as now seems
probable, it will cost the Mudhens
$4,000 for the season, according
to Toledo figures.