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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
THE NAvY,s NEY WEAPON.

The United States navy has power
full new weapon in the shape of a novel
high-speed turbine torpedo. which
possesses conspicuous advantages
over the Whitehead torpedo now in
use.
The new weapon is a self-propelling
missile having an extreme range of
1000 yards, the contact guaranteed
range being $500 yards, and is capa-
bic of travelling at the rate of 81 knots,
its pace at the start being nearly
mile a minute.
Some of the striking characteristics
of the new torpedo are described by
Walter L. Beasley in the current Har-
per's Weekly. Its record breaking
performances, it appears, outclass
those OF the old Whitehead by eight
or 10 knots in speed and almost dou-
BILE the distance in range. Although II
is available to European nations, 1t Is
at present possessed only by the United
States navy, and so for the present
adds greatly to our naval efficiency
The new model is a cigar-shaped
shell of steel, measuring 16 feet nine
inches in length and II ga inches in
its largest diameter and Weighing 1900
pounds. 1t is divided into three main
parts, the first of which, the war
head, holds the explosive charge, con-
sisting of 1872 pounds of guncotton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
THE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION.

The livestock growers of the coun-
try hold their annual convention in
Denver. beginning the 29th of this
month and extending to February 3.
1t should be a largely attended meet
ing for the long deferred hope of the
range men is about to be realized.
Years ago they began a campaign
to show the country that there are
several hundred millions of acres of
public domain that has no economic
use in sight except for grazing. BY a
long hearing before the house COM
mittee on public lands they made
their case and created the literature
of the subject, which has since been
sent all over the country
The president appointed commits
sion to consider the matter, and a bill
is now before congress which will put
a stop to the destruction Of the range
by occupancy i'm common, and will
put the government behind the stock
ranger to protect his right to a suf-
ficient range to enable him to carry
on his business.
When this becomes the law we may
anticipate increased prosperity on the
range and a cessation of the bloody
war long waged for its possession, by
the strong arm.
A few men have procured this So
luton Of the problem by sticking to
it, with but little encouragement from
the general livestock industry. But
the benefits of the coming regulation
will flow to all.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
Knew WaGoOd
Thing
And Wasn't all Day About
Getting it.

II gave s475 for just such a piano" !"
exclaimed a lady to her friend, who
was examining one of those largest
size, strictly high grade. fancy, val
nut-cased pianos at our closing out
sale yesterday. She was sincere.
Probably she did pay $475 for just
such an instrument, although we sold
this style of Piano for S425 during
the past six months; but now is $26S.
You may be sure that this lady's
friend did not leave the store with
out having selected an instrument.
In high-grade pianos we can offer
you everything that is most desirable
and up-to-date i'm modern piano
building. In the matter of medium
priced Pianos, it is sufficient to say
that we have still almost a complete
assortment. You will find here brand
new upright Pianos from 1897 down
to 1920, all for sale on terms of $25
down and SO month.
We really have no competition dur
in gthis sale. Imitation is not compe-
tition, you know; and as the sale in
cludes every instrument in the stock,
everybody who wants a piano comes
to Eilers Piano House, and gets It.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
THE IRRIGATED LAND.

Through countless centuries l slept,
Sun-baked and thirsty to the core.
While over other lands there crept
The moisture plentiful-and more.
Day followed day-no living thing
Upon my famished bosom grew:
No song of birds, nor anything
That other lands in fullness knew.
Stunned was | by the march of man
Counted. as treacherous and base:
BY men and beasts placed meath the
ban
And marked with scorn-the desert
place.
They came! and walked me from my
sleep,
Held to my thirsty lips the cup,
And drinking, drinking. long and
deep,
My head, in gladness. I held up.
And now across my fertile fields
The farmer takes his busy way,
In glory my dominion yields
Its richest treasures day by day.
The waving grass, so cool and
sweet,
Bedecks the one-time desert place:
Ashamed no more, l gladly greet
My children, men, now face to face.
Clifford Trembly in Sunset
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
EARLIER MAIL FROM THE EAST.

Pendleton now receives New York
mail "a hours earlier than before the
first of the year. Papers and letters
formerly reaching here on No. We'd
nesday night at IL o'clock, now reach
here on Tuesday night.
1t isn't matter of life and death
to get mail day earlier, but in the
commercial circles of the country, it
counts. The greatest advantage, per-
haps is the shorter time required for
government mail to reach the orient
the Philippines and other far eastern
points.
How has the schedule been reduced
"a hours in traversing the 5000 miles
of the American continent? Who
knows the keen competition which
has forced this higher speed from the
locomotives of the railroad COM
panies? Where was the time short
eneu ana Dy WnOm
In the 3O0O-mile stretch across the
continent perhaps 20 locomotive en-
gineers haul the mail trains. Each
of these men men have done their
part in clipping off "a hours from the
already alarming train time.
The schedule was not shortened by
one stroke nor on one road. Begin
ming at the Union depot in New York
city, the schedules have been studied
to ascertain where a minute could be
saved.
Unimportant stops were abolished.
and thus two minutes required in stop
ping and starting, were saved: speed
was increased to the danger point at
some crossing, where formerly the
flyer slowed down for a minute; a
town formerly having three minutes
stop for the fast train is given but
two minutes; on level stretches of
country, speed was increased a few
seconds per mile and through the
country villages where trains were
formerly required to slow down they
now fly by with lightning speed.
Thus, minute by minute, the "a
hours have been gained.
Perhaps the greatest gain in time is
on the western roads, where steep
mountains must be contended with
and heavy grades encountered. Here
every effort is made to gain a few
minutes time. 1t means more coal
shoveling for firemen, more strenuous
spurts of speed for high-wheeled en-
gines, built for fast running, and
thus, drop by drop, and mile by mile,
the new schedule is formed and the
public knows nothing of its inner
workings. That it's mail comes earli-
er is sufficient.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
THE POOREST SENATOR.

John NJ. Gearin, recently appointed
United States senator from Oregon to
succeed the late John H. Mitchell,
will be the poorest man in the United
States senate. He owns no property
and has no money in the bank 1t is
true he has lucrative law business.
He owes nothing and does not lack
at all for the comforts of life, but he
has saved nothing. The senator him
self called attention to the fact. Sem
ator Gearin is the fourth man to go
to the United States senate from the
law office from which he comes. the
others having been John II. Mitchell,
j. n. Dolph and Joseph Simon. The
new senator probably is Oregon's
most effective public speaker-Wash-
ington Dispatch.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
WHITES ASSIGNMENT.

Walter Wellman shouldn't swell up
so over his instructions from the Chi
cago News-Herald to go to the north
pole in an airship. The writer hereof
was working for Colonel Learnard of
the Lawrence Journal once when
something happened around the Of
flee which caused the colonel TO give
the writer an assignment to go
straight to hell and be quick about it!
And it never got in the papers much,
either.-Emporia Gazette.
The average humorist never knows
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15

ing with 1t. Private irrigation COM
panies can proceed slowly to reclaim
much of It and this is what is wanted.
For nearly four years this tract has
been withdrawn from entry except
under the homestead law. and all de-
velopment of irrigation has been bar
red during that time.
In the past year about so miles of
ditch have been built in the Echo and
Butter creek country, and this rapid
development will continue If the
government will release The Butter
creek reservation. Much of the land
withdrawn for that project can be
reached by the ditch companies now
operating in that vicinity and the
government surely knows by this time
whether the Butter creek project is
feasible or not.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
MISSOURI MEANS BUSINESS.

H, H. Rogers, the Standard on
magnate and criminal, who is now be-
ing examined by Attorney General
Hadley of Missouri. has proved the
un-American aristocrat that he is. by
answering the questions of the attur-
ney general with flippancy and inso-
lence.
When Rogers is dealing with the
state of Missouri he is not fooling
with spring chicken or a tenderfoot
Missouri comes as near knowing
what is law. and what is commercial
decency and honor as any state or
country on earth, and H. H. Rogers,
John d. Rockefeller, nor no other
parasite can long suck the blood from
her people without a protest that will
be a protest.
Rogers insolently assumes that be-
cause he Is immensely rich he is above
the law He insultingly answers
plain, direct, fair, business questions
as to the operations of his octopus in
Missouri with flippant egotstical, in
solent affrontery and when the maj
esty of the law rises before him and
he is made to know his position, he
then relapses into a state of speech
less ignorance. confessing to know
nothing.
He will know that he has been in
a scrap when Missouri finishes his
case.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
YERKES' is UNWEPT.

The New York palace and art col
lection of the late Charles T. Yerkes
has been given to the Metropolitan
museum, says the San Francisco Star
The value of this bequest of the
dead multi-millionaire is said to be
5000, 900. There is no doubt that
the building is a costly thing, and
some of the pictures and curios may
be worth seeing, but as a whole the
gift is like one of those wondrously
beautiful orchids of repulsive, sicken-
ing odor, described by South Ameri-
can travellers.
In years to come, when sight-seers
pass through the marble halls of the
Yerkes annex to the museum, the
name of the giver will be mentioned
with scant regard in spite of his of
fering. 1t will be told of him, with
truth, that he stopped at nothing in
his struggle for great wealth.
Most of his schemes were conceiv-
ed on a grand scale. and had they
been carried through by fair means,
the man who planned them would
have won deserved admiration.
Chicago and the state of which it
is the chief city, will feel for years
the blighting effects of the bribery
and corruption which attended the
course OF that mans accumulation,
control and development of the Met
ropolitan street railway lines.
And the scandalous details of the
mans life that will be whispered and
repeated in the picture galleries that
he owned for few short years will
not omit the story Of heartlessness
that divided his home and made his
last hours lonely and pitiful.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
RELEASE EXCESS LAND.

The people of Echo and vicinity
should petition the secretary of the
interior to release the land withdrawn
from entry for the Butter creek irrl-
CATION scheme if this scheme is not
feasible, and will not be undertaken.
1t is detrimental to the country to
withhold this vast tract from settle
ment il the government will do moth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15

Chicago is to have a $14,OO0,OOO
hotel which in size and cost will
eclipse that of any other hostelry in
the world. 1t will be built on the lake
front, the present auditorium furnish
ing a part of the site. 1t will be IA
stories high and will contain 1000
rooms. The Congress hotel and annex
will be the name of the new cara
vansary. Much of the finish will be
in marble and onyx. Plans have been
agreed upon and it is expected active
work will begin next spring.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
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? Earth, mother dear, l turn. at I
= last. 4
2 A ho'nesick child, to thee! +
: The twilight glow is fading fast, I
And soon l shall be free I.
, To seek the dwelling. dim and +
vast, 4.
Where thou awaitest me. +
; l am so weary, mother dear.- +
Thy child, of dual race. +
, Who gazing past the star-beams +
clear, +
Sought the Undying's face, +
; Now l but ask to know thee +
near. =
To feel thy large embrace, +
Florence Earl Coates. +
= + + + + + = + I. + I. r + + +
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15

Santa Claus home is at the north
pole, but he boards around in human
hearts.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15
EiIers Piano House
J. c. GALLAGHER, Mgr.
8l3 Main ST.
LADIES ONLY. READ THIS.

II you honestly wish to make money
and will canvass the women of your
locality-we have the articles for you
.patented-guaranteed and grear
sellers. Send so cents for complete
samples. Money refunded II not sat
isfactory. Ramona Novelty Agcy. 203-
A Mohawk Bldg, Portland, Ore.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-15

A horizontal stope in the Tamar-
ack copper mine at Calumet, Mich, Is
on fire. Three men, names unknown,
were caught in the stope and burned
to death.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14

tions representing these institutions were
tyrannically excluded.
"All we ask is, said Mr.. Smith, is that
the frail bark Of virtue shall have the same
rights on navigable waters as the piratical
bark flying the black flag"
The amendment went out on point Of
order
An effort by Mr. Flood (Va) 10 put con
federate veterans on the same preferred
class as other veterans for positions as
rural carriers was unsuccessful Various
other amendments were also defeated. The
bill was finally perfected at 5:i5 o'clock
when Mr.. Moon CTennD entered a motion
to recommit It to the postoffice committee
with instructions TO report the bill to the
house Immediately with the Southern rail-
way mail subsidy stricken out. on this
motion Mr. Crumpacker Gnd) demanded a
roll call, which was ordered.
Mr. Moons motion to defeat the subsidy
was lost, 96 to 80, present. Z.
This retained the subsidy in the BILL end
without further objection the bill was
passed.
The house adjourned at Sis o'clock until
tomorrow at noon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
WEBSTER BOOM IS INFLATED
CONTINUED from First PageJ

already captured seven counties. with 25
delegates, and Mr.. Brown had said the only
possible candidate he really feared was
John L. Webster.
Jacob L. Haley, who was secretary of the
meeting, related how Mr.. Webster had
made political speeches along the Repub-
lican river in 1878 and was therefore we'll
known to the people in those parts. He
recoupted the famous statesmen who had
hailed from Ohio and from Maine being
unwilling to yield the whole bouquet to
Kansas. A. V. Shotwell also put in a good
word for Ohio and for Bill Taft for presl-
dent with Taft as president and Webster
a senator from Nebraska he opined the
nation would have nothing to fear Mr.
Shotwell said he had heard of Mr.. Webst err
as a great lawyer while he was still a stu
dent in the Buckeye state.
Resolutions for Webster.
Mr. Burbank spoke hearty words for Mr..
Webster. and ar. Pratt said no attempt
should be made to cater to republicans
who intended to knife the municipal ticket,
II there be any such. He said Mr.. Webster
was the only man who could whip Norris
Brown, and introduced the resolutions,
which were adopted by a practically unani-
nous vote and read:
Whereas, The republican state central
committee, at it's recent meeting, decided
that the state convention TO be held on
August % should nominate a candidate for
United States senator; and.
Whereas, Under the primary law in force
in this county delegates TO the convention
must be elected seven weeks before such
convention and such delegates must, thirty
days before the local primary election, file
a written application requesting that their
names be placed on the primary ballot; and
Whereas, II Is the belief and sentiment
OF the republicans OF this county that the
United States senatorship, by reason of
state and national conditions Is at present
of unusual importance and that they should
Offer to their fellow republicans OF this
state a. candidate eminently fitted for that
high office; therefore, be IL
Resolved by the republicans here assem-
bled, That we, knowing Hon. John l.
Webster to be a loyal supporter OF repub-
lican tickets and an advocate Of republican
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
PASSING OF THE CARBINE
New Rifles Now in Use by Cavalry
SuppIants the older
Arm.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The War de-
partment has about completed the issue
Of new rifles to the troops in the United
States. This marks the passing of the
carblne, so long a weapon Of the cavalry
branch of the service.
Both infantry and cavalry are now being
supplied with the same model Of rife, n
modification of the model 1903. This is
about six inches shorter than the Krag
and about two inches longer than the car
bine now being discarded by the cavalry.
For the present the rifles are being used
with the rod bayonet, but later they will
he called in when the new bayonet, re-
Gently decided upon, will be substituted.
The issue to the troops in the Philippines
will follow, and when this has been done
all the soldiers of the United States army
win be armed alike
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
WILLARD RETURNS TO CAPITAL
Senator Holds No Further Conference
with Advisors.

Senator Holds No Further Conference
with Advisors.
Senator Willard left last night for Wash
ington, having, with the aid Of some of
his political advisors. mapped out some
of the preliminaries of his campaign for
recollection. The statement was made after
the secret" meeting at the Willard hotel
Wednesday night that mo definite results
were reached and another meeting would
be held" Since then 1t has been under
stood that some things were pretty def
initely settled and the meeting was prolific
of several very definite results. One Of
the obligations enjoined at the meeting
was a continuation of the secrecy feature
which was responsible for the fact that
mo definite results" were publicly an
nounced.
Postmaster Palmer, one of those who at
tended the conference was asked last
night II any other meeting had been held
and replied it had not, so far as his
knowledge went
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
MINOR MEASURES IN THE SENATE
Upper House spends Day I'm DispOsinE
of Bills on the Calendar.

Upper House spends Day In DispOsinG
of Bills on the Calendar.
WASHINGTON, April Blowing to the
fact that none of its members were pre-
pared to speak on the railroad rate bill that
measure was temporarily laid aside today
in the senate, permitting the devotion Of
the entire time to the consideration of
other bills on the calendar or these more
than 300 were passed, most Of them being
private pension bills.
Among the general bills passed was one
increasing the pensions of ex-soldiers who
lost limbs in the service, another retiring
and pensioning petty officers and men of
the army, navy and marine corps after
thirty years of service at threefourths
their regular pay and a third bill in
creasng the pensions of ex-Mexican war
soldiers to $40 per month and making the
attainment of 70 years of age evidence of
disa blity.
The following bills were passed:
Authorizing the appointment of a COM
mission to examine Into the subject of the
protection of American citizens abroad.
Amending the act or 1910 relatlNe 10
right-of-way for railroads through puonc
Authorizing the sale of leo acres of land
occupied by the Sheblt Indians in Wash
Authorizing the acceptance from the
heirs of Andrew johnson, the land at
Greeneville, Tenn, on which is located
his grave.
Increasing to $50 per month the PEN
sions to soldiers of the Mexican War
over 75 years of age.
Providing for the retirement of en-
listed men and petty officers of the army
navy and marine corps.
Amending the law authorizing the Choc-
taw. Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad company
to sell it's property to the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway company.
Increasing the pensions of eX-soldiers
who have lost limbs.
Provision for the protection from over
flow of the allotted lands of the Sac and
Fox Indians in Richardson county, Ne
braska.
The senate went into executive session
at 4 D. m. and at 4:1O adjourned until
2 D. IN. tomorrow.
A conference report on the pension APP
preparation bill was adopted and passed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
Easter Hosiery.

The stockings, as well as the shoe of
today, play important part in the fash
ionable attire. We have an endless variety
of styles in embroidered and clock-stitch,
both silk and Isle. Very attractive styles
in black Isle hose, with open work instep,
with here and there small embroidered
figures, at S5c, SIPS, $3.50 and 500 per pr.
Black Gauze Silk Hose, at $3.50 and S2.&
a pair
French Iisle Hose in black. with ribbon
embroidered designs. at $500 pr, other
styles from $3.50, $3.50 and $2.75 pr
Embroidered SILK Hose in many new and
exclusive styles from $3.50 to $500.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14

bar would have been If President McE<n-
ley's assassination had been the result of
conspiracy and many conspirators had
taken refuge in different states.
Fixing the Sentence.
Judge Speer coneinued:
Believing that is the certainty and not
the severity of punishment, which deters
criminals, / will attempt to approximate
In measuring your term that imposed by
his brother officers upon Carter the late
engineer offices, without whose aid and
connivance the crimes in this case would
have been impossible.
! recognize that you have been in jail for
more than a year that both OF you are
elderly men, both of you are educated men,
accustomed to a life of comparative lux
ury and to the comforts Of home. My
sentence to you, therefore, is far more
severe than a much greater sentence IL
imposed upon those who commit offenses
which demonstrate by their savagery that
they are brutes without OBSCURE of rea-
son.
Judge Speer concluded by pointing out
that good behavior could reduce the sem
tence to three years each instead of four
and hoped for the rest of their lives the
prisoners would recall the psalmist quo
tation, "A little that righteous man hath
is better than the riches of many wicked"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
Beautiful Dress Goods Saturday
Just 0ne-Half Price,
25c q Yard.

Pretty Eoliennes part silk, in four choice
colors, navy, reseda, havana and medium
brown 1t is a lustrous, beautiful draping
material, soft and clinging. Nothing could
make a more exquisite street or evening
gown. They are certainly a wonderful
bargain at Saturdays special price, &c yd
Note-To avoid disappointments, we wish
to say there is not large quantity in the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-14
Grand Easter Display Saturday
of Lovely White Lingerie
Waists.

Every waist is clean, crisp and fresh,
the very newest and Of the most approved
styles Our fine waists are usually less
than the more common ones sold I'm other
stores. Dainty waists at H.0o, N,5, $780,
$40, up to $500.
Lovely suits stylish new separate skirts,
dainty white dresses in lawn and net
fabrics, suitable for afternoon or gradu-
alton.
silk eton coats, silk long coats, long
swagger mixed cloth coats.
New golf and outing sweaters are now
in. all colors.
Negligee house dresses in plain white and
pretty colors