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Evening star., 1906-03-25

Judges laugh had rung as heartily as any at the
gibes upon his bacheorhOod, and he had risen to
respond with his habitual self-possessOn.
The banquet-hal the great ballroom of
Madeira s. spacious and gorgeous with the pale
yellow of brocade and the silvery sheen of paneled
mirrors. Tonight It's airy Gallo charm tenn
pered by the homely decorations supposed to appeal
particularly to the diners: small pointed frs
masses of hardy button. chrysanthemums and
the like. In the rallied galleries were crowded
the feminine relatives of the Sons, amiaby per-
mitted to watch their brethren eat and to listen
to their speeches. The whole scene keyed Judge
Priestley to unwonted pitch of brliance, though
he always ranked as one of the readiest and most
eloquent speakers in New HOrk
He stood at the table at the head of the room,
commanding, handsome, distinguished. His eyes
swept the galleries with the pleasing fent of
seeking there his inspiration Then he began,
deftly turning the jests upon his unmarried state
into compliments for the subjects of his toast
and gracefully bantering his fellows Again his
eyes seemed to seek inspiration in the glittering
balconies, in the laughing appreciative faces bent
toward him He paused and the pause accentuated
his change of mood When he took up his theme
again he longer merely graceful and witty
he was eloquent with that carefully restrained
pathos which distinguishes the fine speaker from
the tear-demandng demagogue He sketched the
farms folded in winter, the quiet towns along the
deep-cutting bays of the coast. Their land, re-
mote, austere. lonely, lay before the Sons; their
mothers tOlled at hOmely tasks The fine stern
traditions of their people lived again for them in his
words, in the women he depicted. Laughter faded
from their eyes and lips, and tenderer light than
marked the change with the swelling sense of
domination he always had when he felt himself
swaying his audience himself unmoved except for
the JOY of deliberately welded power.
The women of our State!" he cried, beginning
his peroraton in full resonant tones and addressing
the galleries again. Then he paused. His eyes fell
upon face, pale worn, irradiated by impersonal
pride, noble enthusiasm. In its eagerness it was
thrust little forward OF its neighbors. Suddenly
confronted with Judge Priestley's eyes, it shrank
back, flush dyeing its pallor.
The orator stared while the vibration of his last
words fingered in the air The flow of his eloquence
he stood-a second, two, three. Then he took up
his theme again and briefly finished his speech
The change of voice, of manner, perceptible
only to himself and perhaps other. The rest
of his audience still in the entranced glow pro-
duced by what he had said before, and his sudden
cropping uncertainty now powerless to chill
them. When he sat down there was the breathless
moment of silence which is the orators deepest
delight, followed by a thunder of applause. But
Judge Prestley scarcely courteous in his
Iy71if 10 He 1pd ai+a md
Evening star., 1906-03-25
TT7HE Sons of the
h Rock-Ribbed State

FT7HE Sons of the
H Rock-Ribbed State
resident in New
y ork hold the holiday
banquet, which theirrev-
erent declare to be the
only perceptible reason
for their organization,
three or four days before
the holidays begin. a
sentimental fiction eX-
lists to the effect that
each member of the
society hastens imme-
diately afterWard to the
Rock Ribbed State it
self, there to eat his
Christmas dinner on the
old farm. But the only
well-authentiCated case
of anything more than
a visionary pilgrimage
homeward on the part
of the prosperous Ju-
rists, bankers, theOlo-
gians, writer's, teachers
and what-not of the
coterie is that of Judge
Amos Priestley. He is
generally believed to
have been moved there
to by his own eloquence.
The POSTMASTER, on a
sudden inspiration of
jocularity, had called
upon the Judge, as a
bachelor of proved i'm
perviousness to fem
inine charm, to re-
ply to the toast, " The
Women of the Rock
Ribbed State. The
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
RINGLING'S PHEASANT FARM.
Circus Company VIII Establish Breed
ing Farm i'm Oregon.

Oregon is to have a new industry
the raising of Chinese pheasants for
circus exhibition purposes, says a
Portland dispatch. 1t is always the
circus man who is thinking up some
new feature, and now he has origin
ated the idea of raising the beautiful
oriental birds for his travelling show.
A. r. Ringing. one of the brothers
of Ringing Bros circus, arrived in
Portland Sunday. The object of Mr..
Ringling's visit to Oregon is to pur-
chase Chinese pheasants, buy tract
of land somewhere and put a practi-
cal man in charge to raise the birds
for the circus menagerie.
The seven Ringing brothers live at
BaraboO, Wis. which is also the win
ter quarters of the great circus Many
of the people connected with the show
also have homes there. Consequently
the circus is one of the mainstays of
the Wisconsin city. Each one of the
Ringlings is married and has n mag
nificent home. Each is at the head Of
a different department of the circus
One is in charge of the transportation
facilities another looks after the per-
formers, another the press bureau
etc.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
SEATTLE VALUATIONS.
Total Assessment of King County VIII
Reach 5000. 900. 900.

The assessed valuation of King
county property, not including rail-
roads, banks, or personal property, as
shown by the county assessors figures
is SlS6,044,O10, says the Seattle News.
The addition of these three items
will probably bring the assessment list
fully up to the 100000 900 mark, as
estimated by County Assessor Peter
and announced in the News last even
ing
The valuations which are based on
an estimate of 60 per cent of the real
value of the property throughout the
county show an increase of almost 100
per cent in some cases, although the
figures given in the tabulations made
last night include the valuations of
railroad right of ways in the figures
for 1905, while in the figures for 1906
the value of the railroads Is left out.
Seattle property shown in the as
SCISSORS report to be valued at s111,-
959,53O on a basis of 60 per cent. The
rest of the county is assessed at SEA-
OS4,OSO on the same basis.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

Because ii has been grated out of
about 5000 railroad tickets by alleged
"workingmen" whom 1t has sent out
from Portland and Spokane to the diff
ferent grading camps on the system,
the o. r. & n. company has decided
to discard white labor altogether on
the Elgin-Wallowa branch and will
hereafter use Japanese. Greeks and
Italians.
For the past six months the compa-
ny has been forwarding laborers from
Portland and Spokane on free passes
to the grading camps, only to have
them desert after the first day and go
somewhere else to be transported free
to another job.
The annoyance has become unhear-
able, and white labor will be discard
ed entirely and the gangs of Greeks,
Japs and italians will be substituted.
About half of the "laborers" who
secured free passes from either Port
land or Spokane to the Elgin grade
desert at Pendleton and Walla Walla,
where they sit around on the side
walks and talk about hunting Jobs in
the harvest fields, but where they
continue to sit from day to day, while
farmers are searching IN vain 70.
men.
a favorite ruse of the professional
"laboring" men encountered this sea-
son, is to roll up an old quilt as bag
gage and have it checked from where
ever they are employed to the disti.
nation, thus leading the company to
believe that they mean business by
sending valuable" baggage through.
About 1000 rolls of this baggage"
is now piled up in the depots at La
Grande and Elgin which consists of
an old quilt wrapped around cast-off
clothing or some other commodity to
swell the roll and lead the company
to believe that they were real work
ngmen with good clothes and bed
ding wrapped in the bundles.
The 1000 rolls of bedding will be
sold at public auction by the company
after it has been held a certain leugth
of Time and advertised according to
law.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
WILL NOT PAY CLAIMS.
Arising From Burning OF Northern
Pacific Depot.

The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has refused to allow the claims
of the merchants of this city who LOST
goods in the fire that destroyed the
freight depot last spring, at Yakima
says the Republic OF that place. The
merchants in turn will get together
and bring a test suit to determine the
liability of the company
The total amount of the Losses sus-
tanned by the merchants and others
of this city has never been ascertained
TO an exact amount, but it Is some
where between $4,000 and $4,000
1t is estimated that the business men
lost about two-thirds of this sum.
The position taken by the Northern
Pacific Railway company is that It
was not responsible for the fire that
burned the freight depot. The legal
department contends that fire orig
mating off the company's property
does not make 1t liable for the loss of
goods of other people on its property.
Whether this contention will stand the
test of the courts is questioned by Il
number of local attorneys.
In speaking about the matter this
morning C. \. Marsh, who was one of
The losers, said The railway COM
rany is playing the same trick the in
surance companies have played with
San Francisco people. We have been
paying tribute to the company in the
way of freight for years. Now it has
sustained a small loss by fire and re-
fuses to pay its patrons for any dam
age done them. 1t is not a square
deal. We have paid the Northern
Pacific hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in freight and a matter of a $l0,-
goo OF so loss to the merchants
through the company is flung aside
as though the people have no rights"
The question to be settled is legal
one. 1t will be tried in the courts on
its merits. The Northern Pacific is
anxious to have the matter settled by
a decision as any one else. The re-
ceipts issued for freight shipments
and the bill of ladings all contain a
clause in the regulations which stip-
ulates that the company will not be
responsible for goods destroyed by
fire. water, or almost anything else;
but whether this will stand in the
courts is a question.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

ability of special election to decide
the question being held In September,
has had n very disqueting effect on
the local political situation.
The prospect of having an import
ant election contest going on, in which
the public is vitally interested contem-
poraneously with a preliminary fight
for the control of the primaries, is
something which the average aspirant
did not expect and which comes as an
unpleasant interruption. particularly
as II involves the necessity of declar-
ing themselves on a question which,
to Use an expressive political phrase
now rapidly going out OF vogue, "They
would rather straddle."
large majority of the people of
Seattle are undoubtedly In favor OF
the municipal ownership of street
railways. Whether they are in favor
of the system proposed by Thomson,
is another question.
There is, however no question that
the proposed system meets with far
greater popular approval than the
council expected any system Thomson
could devise would meet, and enough
public interest has been aroused to
put every candidate for public office
in position of being compelled to de-
clare himself, either for or against
the proposed. system.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
NICKELL GETS i3 MONTHS.
Former United States Commissioner
of Metlford Sentenced for Land
Frauds.

Judge w. H. Hunt last evening i'm
posed a sentence of 13 months in Nc
Neil's island penitentiary on Charles
Nickel, formerly United States COM
missioner at Medford, for completely
in the MillerKincairt conspiracy.
Nickel permitted witnesses to swear
falsely on homestead proofs and en-
couraged other entrymen to file on
land for a bogus company contrary
to law.
Miller and Kincairt are now serving
sentences at McNeil's island for COM
plicity in the frauds in Jackson coun-
ty, and Nickel will join them soon.
as 1t is not probable that he will Sc
cure a new trial, although he has ap-
piled for such through his attorney,
Judge Thomas O'Day. He is now out
on temporary bail of $4,000. His bail
was fixed at $4,000 by Judge Hunt.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

Although the time for filing appli-
cations for the 10-year time provision
for paying for street paving was up
yesterday. further extension will be
granted, as many have not yet applied.
This morning John Haley, jr, act
ing recorder, stated that so far but
about a half dozen property owners
have filed their applications. As
many have signified their intention of
taking the 10 years time. 1t is evident
that many are neglecting the matter
or else have been ignorant as to the
time limit for making applications.
Commence Work Tomorrow.
Actual construction work will COM
mence tomorrow morning according
to the Warren people, who are now
here. A car OF cement is now here
and some cement workers will arrive
on the evening train from Walla
'Walla, so as to commence work on the
curbing in the morning. AS soon as
the sewer pipe arrives, which is ex-
pected hourly. a force OF men will be
placed at work in the drainage sys-
tenn.
This forenoon Superintendent Shew-
ry has been inspecting the rock quar-
ries near here for the purpose of Sc
lecting a place from which to get the
rock for their crushing plant.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
VIII Make 1000 Bee Hives.

a Dalles firm which has been
reaching out for outside business, even
to the extent of invading the metrop-
oils, is the Hansen & Thomson plan
ing mill company, the Junior mem
Der of which has just returned from
that city, where he secured con-
tract that will fill i'm any otherwise idle
hours during the dull winter season.
They will be buster than bees during
a portion of the season making 1000
bee hives for the Portland Seed com
pany, having taken the contract at 81
a hive.-The Dalles Chronicle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
GREAT DEMAND FOR HOUSES.
Real Estate Men Busy With Pros
DeCtiye Renters

That the fall demand for houses to
rent has already compenced, is de-
clared by local real estate men. and
fro mappearances many new farmers
and stockmen from over the county
will be moving to the city this fall to
take advantages of the splendid school
facilities.
Messrs. Livermore & Bickers, now
engaged in the real estate and insur-
ance business, state that during the
past few days they have noted an in
creased demand for houses and they
have rented number to prospective
tenants. In most cases the people are
families who wish to come to town
from the country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
Kruger VIII NOT PLAY Rail

r. Kruger, the third baseman OF
the Yellow Kids of Athena, will not
be able to go to Salt Lake to play
with the Salt Lake league team. The
league has been making every effort
to secure Mr.. Kruger but he will not
leave Pendleton this season. r. Mil
lard, Of the Spokane league team
will join the Salt Lake team in place
of Kruger.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
INDIAN DAY IN POLICE COURT.
-Four OF Six Committed. and Will Work
on the Streets.

This was Indian day" in police
court, and with John HALEY. jr.. as
judge, the place looked more like a
scene in the U. S. commissioners Of
flee than the police court.
During the night and yesterday af-
ternoon six residents of reservation
had been run in for being drunk and
four of these were presented at court
this morning, the other two having
given bail. John Roberts, Isaac Parr,
Frank Parr, and Ia Wits composed
the quartet and they all admitted
they had been drunk. The usual SEN
tence of IS or three days was i'm
posed, and as none had the coin they
were turned over to the mercy of
Street Commissioner Billedue.
Ole Paulin was the only white man
up this morning, and he was able to
pay his fine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
EDITORS ELECT OFFICERS.
Blue Mountain Editorial Association
at WaIIa WaIIa

At their first session held in Walla
Walla yesterday, the Blue Mountain
Editorial association, composed of the
editors of southeastern Washington,
eelcted the following officers:
Charles Fl. O'Neill, editor of the
Prescott Spectator. president; ]. A.
Enochs of the Waitsburg Gazette,
vice-president; E. L. Wheeler of the
Waitsburg Times, secretary and A. H.
Harris Of Walla Walla, treasurer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
WASHINGTON CROP LIGHT.
Deputy Grain Inspector King Says 25
Per Cent Shortage,

Reports from all the wheat districts
of Washington received by Chief Dep
uty Grain Inspector S. S. King of Ia
coma, lead him to believe that the
wheat crop of the state will fall %
per cent at least short of a full crop,
and the falling off may be more.
This will bring the states wheat
yield this season." said he recently,
below the 3O,OO0,OOO bushels. Spring
wheat has been damaged more than
the winter wheat and there is but
little of it that will grade as No. grain
Most of the damage was done in Ad-
ans, Franklin, the western part Of
Whitman, the western part of Lincoln
counties and in the famous Eureka
flat district in Walla Walla county.
Fall sown wheat that was winter kill
ed was resown to spring wheat, and
it was so late that the hot winds and
drouthy weather badly damaged it,"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
BOGUS LABORERS
SUPPLANTED BY JAPS,
GREEKS AND ITALIANS.

HobocS Have Gotten to BE
an UnhearaHe Nuisance; They Beat
the Railroads Out of Unlimited
Transportation on the Strength of
Bundles of Cast-off Clothing and
Old Newspapers - Railroads VIII
Auction OFF Thousands of Rolls of
This Stuff.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
o. X. & n. Officials Here

Superintendent d. w. Campbell, of
the o. r. & NJ, is in the city today in
the interest of the road. He is on
his return from a tour Of the lines in
eastern Oregon, where large improve
ments are being made to tracks,
bridges and buildings.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

John Walletsi and Tataseah, two
Indian prisoners at the county Jail,
were released today, having served
out their respective sentences. Both
were in for taking liquor on the res
ervation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

Crazed by heat and hunger John
Carle, aged II, stabbed william c.
Pearson, a salesman in New York.
killing him. The act was committed
within sight Of 100 people, in broad
daylight. Carle was taken in custody
while rifling his victims pockets.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Seattle Street Car System May B1
Made City PrOpcty.

The Seattle News reviews the agita-
tion for municipal street car system
in Seattle in the following manner:
City Engineer Thomson's report to
the council of the proposed municipal
street railway system and the prob
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
Arrived From Cornwall. England.

Ernest Sleeman Of Cornwall, Eng
land. has arrived in Pendleton to re-
main permanently. He will make his
home in future with his uncle, A. F.
May and family, at their home on
Bush street
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

due that institution on a note given
by the deceased. The suit was filed
by Carter, Raley & Raley, and 800
attorneys fee is also asked for.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
Suit 10 COLLECT S1Gn5

In the circuit court today a suit to
collect the sum of $7695 from Ralph
Ward was filed by Chris Stanull
through Attorney ]. B. Perry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

cures made by DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century /;
discovered after years
of scientific research
by DR.. Kilmer, the
eminent kidney and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

In Wallowa county c. f. Lind,
Elliott Johnson and Alex Linsted were
fined $50 and costs each for dyna-
hitting fish. All were laborers on the
o. r. &c n. extension.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
suit Against Estate.

The First National Bank has COM
menced suit against T. NJ. Bush, ad-
ministrator Of the estate of J. w.
Stamper to collect the sum of s11O0
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
TIME EXTENSION
MANY LAGGARD ABOUT
TAKING IT'S ADVANTAGE.

Only Half Dozen Filed Applications
Under the Bancroft Iaw-Actual
Operations VIII Begin Tomorrow
on the Cement Curbing-NIr. Shew-
ry is Inspecting the Quarries to
Make Selection of Place From
Which to Get Rock for Paving.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07

bladder specialist, and is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing lame back,
uric acid, catarrh Of the bladder and
Brights Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. 'Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
ommended for everything but if you have
kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found just the remedy you need. 1t has
been tested in so many ways, in hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved so successful in every case that
special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have sample
bottle sent free by mail, also book tell
ing more about Swamp-Root, and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trou-
Bile. When writing mention reading this
generous offer in this paper and send your
$ S'';;:, ss:. + s!@shs%!?s: !' R:i s'$s:
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ffty-cent and one shi:saHl le@l
dollar size bottles are Homo of swampRoot.
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y, on
every bottle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-07
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK Z
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-07-19
Srrinr Poem,

A poem on spring 81 n beautiful thing
II you work In the meter just right.
With blossoms and rilIs and fever and
chills
The topics are plenty In sight.
The beautiful snow no longer can show
It's color on field and on hill;
II han packed up its trunk. and the skat-
ing Is punk
On the pond by the old flour mill
In the depths OF the wood the violets look
good.
And the mud on the road Is kaee deep.
For often the skies w tears In their
eyes.
And rs awful the way that they weep.
It's weather that suits the tall rubber
boots
That almost reach up TO your face.
French slippers. l fear. and such running
gea
wolsu't be one. two. three in the race.
The boys In the lot have picked out q
spot
Where marbles for keeps they can play.
And the old speckied hen IL at 1t again
And Dragging aloud of her lay.
The 81. ssafras man comes round with a
can
or bark that will tone up the blood.
And the rescuing crew has plenty to do.
For teacher IL stuck In the mud.
Though winter has Ned. the cold in the
head
still fingers. though knowing the date.
And the man with the spade In out Oh
parade
And ~anxiously looking for bait.
AZ nature Is glad. no one should be sad
Or move round the place on his ear.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1906-07-19
Mutual Life Investigation.

Stuy vessnt Fish. president Of the I'LL.
nois Central railroad. who wns forced
OF the board OF trustees OF the Mutual
Life Insurance company because he
insisted or a thorough investigation OF
iS affairs has re-entercd the fight as
ieade- OF a protective committee OF
Mutual Life policy holders. which will
represent this country. Canada. Great
Britain. France and Germany.
The purpose Of the international com.
mittee Is 10 drive from power the pres.
ent management. which Is regarded al
q duplicate In disguise Of the McCurdy
administration. II is also proposed %