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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
TRACTION LINE
NOW BUILDING
OPER ATIONS UNDER
WAY AT WALLA WALLA.
Company Needs More Men and Will
Make Much More Rapid Progress
When II Gets Thcm-City System
i'm Operation Soon, and Cars Run
ming Into Milton at Least by the
First of November.

Walla Walla, Aug. 25.-The traction
company now has 43 men at work
within the city limits on the first
stages of the electric line which is to
connect this place with Milton, UNA
tilla county. The work has been
completed as far as the Eureka Mills
west of the city. The pavement is be-
ing taken u pand track laid on West
Main street. This work makes neces-
sary tearing up the recently laid bitu-
lithio paving. The excavation is then
partly filled with concrete in which is
laid heavy beams upon which the
stringers and rails are spiked. The
rails are of siX-inch steel.
The city line will be in operation in
short time. and If the laborers can
he secured the line will be completed
to Milton by the first of November.
or possibly by the middle of October.
The company would have at least
100 men at work at this time could
they be secured. Operations on the
suburban line will be greatly expe-
dited bv the completion of the line in
the city. as that part first completed
will be used to transfer material OF
those portions not vet completed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
PENDlETON- -WAL[A WA[[A
PASSENGER TRAIN SEPT. |

meeting the demands of business. The
mixed train now does an immense
passenger business, but owing to the
great pressure imposed by the grain
traffic 1t is impossible for that train
to give satisfaction because the time
table is completely shot in pieces.
The people of Walla Walla natural
ly are disappointed because the serv-
ice is not reversed as to the starting
and arriving time between the two
places, but the company evidently
seems to think the greater number of
interests will be subserved by making
Pendleton in the morning, as was
done when the service was put on a
year ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

September / the o. r. & n. will
resume local passenger service be-
tween Pendleton and Walla Wala.
The train will be run on the follow
ing schedule: Leave Walla Walla at
a. M, and reach Pendleton at $40
n. m. Leave Pendleton at $3.50 p. m.
and reach Walla walla at 1880 p. m.
The service which was inaugurated
on September l last year was pulled
off on January 1, on account of lack
of business, but 1t is hoped that the
service this year will continue indef-
initely.
The immediate and pressing need
for this service arises from the i'm
possibility Of the present service
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
STRIKE INEVITABLE.
Carmen Utterly Refuse to Await Ar
rival Of President Calhoun.

San Francisco, Aug. 25.-President
Cornelius, of the International Car
mems union, this morning presented
to the Geary and California street
lines the same demands that were
made on the United Railroads, SO for
eight hours a day. Tonight a meeting
of the carmen will be held and it now
looks as though every line in this city
will yield and if there is a strike the
tieup will be complete. Independent
lines will undoubtedly follow the
United Railroads in refusing or grant
ing the demands of the employees. The
refusal of the carmen to await the ar
rival of President Calhoun for an an
swcr to their demands widens the
breach and makes a strike almost in
evitabe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
sTRUTHERs STANDS PAT.
WaIla Walla Commissioners Attitude
Toward Railroad Tax.

Walla Walla, Aug. 25.-"The ?ro-
posed raise in the assessed valuation
of the o. r. & n. is nothing unreason-
able" said Commissioner Struthers
this morning. "All classes of property
all over the county has been raised
this year and the railroad has not
been assessed any higher than indi-
viduals"
Further than this neither Commits
sioner McCaw nor Struthers gave any
intimation of what the board pro-
posed to do in the case or the o. R.
& n. Commissioner struthers is
strongly in favor of raising the COM
pany's assessment from s1O,56O to
$4,000 a mile on the main line and
from 1920 to $1O,56O on the Pendle-
tom -Starbuck and Wallula-Walla Wal
la branches.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Desneran. Situation at Odcssa.

Odessa, Aug. PA regiment of
sappers attended a political meeting
and beat the officers who tried to
break it UP. They adopted resolutions
that they would not fire on the people
in any uprising.
Murders and rioting are beyond the
control of the police. The citizens
have pet,yioned the governor for a
general increase of forces and TO re-
quire each householder To keep three
armed sentinels instead of one
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
FAIRBANKS SPEaBs.
To Coiored People in Educational In
dusiriaI Exposition.

Columbus, o., Aug. 25.-Vice-
president Fairbanks today addressed
the Ohio colored Educational Indus
trial exposition. A public reception
was held in the governors mansion
this morning. He told the negroes
that education was not to prepare
them for living without work. but
was TO make work count. Work.
work" said the vice-president. Work
is the keynote of success. Broad OPP
portunity lies before the colored
race. What becomes OF 1t depends
upon what is done"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
London Papers RidicuIe.

London, Aug. 25.-The afternoon
papers generally ridicule Roosevelt's
abortion of reform spelling. The
Globe says. Roosevelt will find, like
William Conqueror, that 1t is easier
to subdue the people than the Ian
guage." The Standard calls the "In-
ter-conference ill-timed, and harm
full" The Pail Mall Gazette COM
ments: Roosevelt is likely to con-
found confusion with vengeance. He
cannot straighten out the photographic
but he can succeed in making It more
crooked" t.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

Washington, Aug. lo.-Franklin
Lane, the youngest member, this
morning assumed his duties on the
interstate commerce commission. Lane
and Clements think the roads will
make no efforts TO prevent enforce
ment of the new law, though some
Washington, Aug. est is an
preme court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
OPINIONS DIFFER.
Regarding Roosevelt Favoring the
Change Of English Language.


oytser Bay, Aug. 25.-Public Print
er Stillings and other officials wrote
the president this morning enthusiast
tically indorsing the change In the
English language. The president was
cenaured by many and jollied by 9TH
ers, all of which he Is unmindful of
and is enjoying his vacation the same
as IL nothing had happened. Stilings
says that he has already put a COM
mittee of employees at work remodel
ing the manual Of style. 1t Is ordered
to hold ali proofs until they are COM
plete. He says the new manual with
the simplified spelling will enable
him to dispose of the services of a
number of proof readers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Battle Tonirht.

Havana, Aug. 25.-I1 appears GER
tain thai a great battle will take place
tonight at san Juan Mr1mez. y small
body "a rebels have proceeded on
ward. Governor NucE SAYS the rev.
olutionfsts of the provtEce are scat
tered aud declares that within % days
there won't he an armed rebel in the
province.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

Martin Peterson, 10 years OF age,
lost his right arm in the Dean Lumber
company's sawmill, and he came near
beng ground to pieces. He was feed
ing The rlaner and in some manner
got his fingers caught in the feed roll
ers
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
RoU on the Way.

Valparaiso, Aug 25.-Secretary
Root arrived at Punta Arenas straits
The Magellan officials of this coun-
Try and the American minister will
meet him 800 miles south, on the 29th
and they are expected to reach here
September 3, to so to Santiago to ex-
tend the coincidence of the president.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
RESORT TO THE
SUPREME COURT
New Member Of Interstate
Commission Thinks Rail-
roads Will Be Law Abiding.
SPANS ADVANTAGEOUS
TREATY WITH AMERICA

Bnst Terms With Any Country Except
ing POrtucal-Consul General at
Hong Kong Labors to Have the Chi
ncse Boycott of American Products
Called Ofi-Shaw Will Not Give
Out Information as to Treasury AZ
fairs, But Is Quick to Make Vigor-
Gus Dcniais.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
APPLY FOR INJUNCTION.
Against the Longshoremen's Union by
Crescent Wharf 4 Warehouse Co.

Los Angeles, Aug. 25.-The Cres-
cent Wharf & Warehouse company
made application to the superior
court today for a permanent injunc-
tion against the Longshoremens
union. The San Pedro & Coast Fed
Grafton OF Longshoremen are re-
straining them from interfering with
the plaintiffs employees by picket
ing, etc.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
CITY COUNCIL
LEVEE PLANS
Suggested That the City Go
Ahead and Make Such Re-
pairs as Were Necessary,
HINKLE ESTIMATES THE COST
AT CLOSE TO $4,000.

To Repair the Levee Above Main
Street Bridge by Days Work and
the Portion Below the Bridge
Through Letting II Out 10 Contrac-
tors, Was Decided by the Counch
Last Night-Repairs Estimated at
s15.OOO-The City May Pass the
$4,000 Limit-Private Sewers We're
Outlawed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
ROBBED BY H1cIfwAYMAN.
\. y. Anderson, a 'Jewelry Peddler
Held Up on lone Road.

Oroville, Cal, Arg. ga. \. An
up and robbed last night by two
hignwaymen on e lonely mountain
road, and lost $3.50 and much jewel1y.
Tho sheriff this morning captured
Ben Calvatori and L. Lawrence in
Oroville, the booty being found on the
men being identifs a by Anderson
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Death OF FRANK
CL0PT0N TODAY
Pioneer Citizen and Business
Man Passed Away at 2
This Afternoon.
AFTER AN ILLNESS OF
MANY MONTHS DURATION.

During the Seventies He Came TO
UmatiIla Landing and Came to PEN
dlcton In tS82-Was Postmaster
During Administration of President
Cleyclnnd-Iicld Different Positions
of Trust-Was Member of the
Masonic and Knights of Pythias of
This City-Funcral VIII BE Held
Monday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
CnIlS for Aid.

Boston, Aug. 2j.-The president
this afternoon issued proclamation
calling Tor relief for Valparaiso. The
proclamation says that people must
recall how the people of Europe ana
Asia bolh assisted America recently
when 'Srisco fell.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
MANY PEOPLE KILLED.
Twelve Ycar-Old Girl and TNo
Women Are Injured.


Nuremburg, Aug. 25.-Two hun
hundred people were wounded, some
mortally, in a desperate street fight
between the soldiers, the police and
the striking employees Of the automo-
biie works. Soldiers are charged with
bayonets and strikers attempted TO
Storm the works, and fighting the po-
yice. A battalion of infantry had to
be called
A 12-y1ar-old girl and TWO women
are among the injured. The strikers
had tried to burn the works and re-
fused TO dispense unrn the infantry
was czlied.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
1ndict Standard OIL.

jamestown, N. Y, Aug. 25.-The
federal grand jury today indicted the
standard Oil and New York Central.
charging the railroad with giving. and
the Standard with accepting the spe-
eial rates for the shipment of oil
from New York to Burlington. vi
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Game Here lin 1882.

During the seventies Mr.. Clopton
came to Umatilla landing While but
a young man, and WAS first employed
as bookkacper by ,th= John Il. Foster
company. Later on ln 1882, the year
the railroad was bnilt through PEN
dltfbon he removed to this city. Here
he engaged in the irSnrance and real
estnte business during part of which
time he was in partnership with his
uncle. the late Colonel b.. d. 1s"yd.
On February IL, 1889, MIR. Ciopton
was married to Miss Belle Griffin of
this city, and his viii ANA one child
Miss Sibyl Clopton, survive him.
During the administration OF Pres
idert Cleveland Mr.. Clopton was
postmaster of this Gi'S, and during
his Hfe here he held numerous other
local offices of trust He was a
member of the city council for term
or more and at the tjrpe ,uf his death
was memhnr of the water commits
sion.
The deceased was a member of the
Masonic order, having Joined at uma-
tilla when a young man He was
also a member of Damon lodge No.
A. knights of T,ythias, Of this city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

Oyster Bay, Aug. 25.-The presi-
dent has appointed Listzie Mccain.
poatmistress at Richmond. Cal, anu
W. S. Brainard. postmaster at Ward
ncr, Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
l. AhXnIItn~eOuS.
prene court.

Washington, Aug. 25.-It is anc
nounced tina ttho tariff agreement
with Spain is the most advantageous
II Spain made with any nation except
Portugal, and will become effective
by September l.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Request to Can Off Boycott.

Hong Kong, Aug. 25.-The Ameri-
can consul general has sent request
TO the viceroy of Canton requesting
suppression of the boycott,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Irene Stops for Coal.

New York, Aug. 25.-The Princess
Irene aboard which Bryan is cabled
to have stopped at Azores, presuma-
| bly, for coal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Chicago Wheat Market.

Chicago. Aug. 25.-Wheat opened
II is, closed II Y corn opened AK
closed 4SH; oats opened 20 is, closed
291a.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
SIOLYP|N WAS
ASSASS|NATED.
During a Reception at His
J Home He Was Terribly
Lacerated By a Bomb.
OTHERS WERE INJURED
BY THE SAME MISSILE.

House Was Fired and Badly Damaged
No Question About the Murder
Rcing the Result of the Premier's
Reactionary and Tyrannical Policy
No Prctcnse Of Law and Order at
Odessa. Where Regiment of Sap
pers Take Part In Political Meeting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

To repair the levee above the Main
street bridge by day work and the
portion below the bridge through
letting it1out to contractors was de-
cided on at the adjourned councf'
meeting last evening.
During the afternoon yesterday the
members of the council visited the
norton of the levee below the Main
street bridge and Chairman Hinkle'
of the levee committee, was ready TO
report soon after the council had been
called to order.
Repairs Estimated at $4,000. =
In behalf of his committee Mr..
Hinkle recommended that no work be
done on the levee between the upper
end and the railroad bridges; that the
portion between the bridges and the
Main street bridge be repaired by men
employed by the day and working un-
der the direction of the committee;
that the section below the Main street
bridge be divided into two districts,
from Main to Lilleth and frim Lilleth
to Marie, and that the two districts
be repaired by letting the work by
contract. ~
According to Mr.. Hinkle's estimate
the cost of the work outlined would
be close to $4,000. This would be
$4,000 more than the amount that can
be raised by the levee bond issue and
how TO meet the extra expense was
problem.
City May Pass $4,000 Limit.
1t was suggested that the city could
go ahead and make such repairs as
were absolutely necessary and that
should the Indebtedness go beyond
the $4,000 limit no complaint would
be made, it being held that no one
on the flat would object and that no
one on the hills would have the gall,
20 do so.
City Attorney McCourt said that
counties frequently went beyond their
necessary bridge and road work.
Consequently he believed the city
could do the same in repairing the
levee, though he had not fully inves-
tigated the subject.
After some further discussion the
council decided by motion to repair
the portion between the upper
bridges and the Main street bridge by
day work. The motion to do the same
was made by Councilman Ell. No
repairs will be made on the levee
above the railroad bridges.
Councilman Thompson then moved
that the section between the Main
street bridge and the east line of Lii
leth be repaired, the contract being
let to the lowest bidder. The motion
was carried as was also one by Coun-
Gilman Hinkle to contract for repairs
on the section between the east side
of Lilleth to the west line of Mari.
streets.
Young & Kelsay, the engineers, will
be asked to prepare specifications for
the repairs below Main street. and
as soon as they are ready bids will be
advertised for. Under their contract
with the city Young & Kelsay receive
five per cent commission on all
money expended by the city upon the
levee.
Once more Councilman Mumm,
chairman of the sewer committee.
called the attention of the council 10
the failure of some property owners
to connect with the sewer system and
abandon their private connections.
He was asked to furnish the city at
torney with a list OF those who still
have private sewers so that action
may be taken against them at once
The erection Of a Carnegie library
is being planned at Coeur d'Alene,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Author Is DYING.

Boston Aug. 25.-Captain Nathan
Appleton, author OF the Traveller in
Panama" and a promoter. is dying.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
BASEBALL Scores.

San Francisco. Aug. 25.-Los Alr-
Heles 4, San Francisco 0.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

The erection Of a Carnegie library
is being planned at Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho, at a cost Of $1,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

Frank B. Clopton died at O'Clock
this afternoon at his home on the
north side of the RIVER in this city, the
end coming after a lingering illness
of many months. During chat time
he passed considerable time in Ari-
iona in hopes OF bettering his condi-
ton, bur returned at the beginning Of
summer with bnt little hope for life.
Since his return to Pendlcton he has
been confined to his home all the
time, and his condition grew steadily
worse until the end,
The funeral will occur at 3 O'Clock
Monday afternoon from the family
home at the corner of Monroe and
Washington streets.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

Los Angeles Gal, Aug. s5.-ssHtile
4, Fresno 3.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25
Born In NifI inia.

Frank b. Clopton was born at
Lynchburg, Va. on Harch 2, 1860.
He was one of two children, his sis
ter Mrs. C. S. Jackson of Portland,
being the a,ther. During his boyhood
his mother was a teacher in St Hell
eR,s Hall of Portland, and nj that
school he received a portion of his
education His father was an Officer
In the ,umferedate a-my.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-25

The people whom advertisers
wish to reach read the evening pa
per after the days work Is done.
That's why East Oregonian ads
bring results.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16
Some of the Summer
Kacafi0nisfS Many Trials

What, not there? All, you remember. You
wrapped it in the linen roll that holds the scis
sors, thimble and needles. No! Where on earth
did you leave it?
Then you get down on your knees beside that
blessed old trunk and take everything out. At
first, the process is orderly. You unfold skirts
and ribbons carefully, and as carefully refod
them As time and patience wear on, you slap
the things around GROSSLY and rufAe them sadly
You get to the bottom of the trunk that had
the broken lock. Still no tooth brush. Another
case like that of the soap you groan. Then you
think of the cobbled trunk and rummage that
desperately. just as you have given up all hope
and have reached into the mockng depths for
the last handful Of vacation furnishings, you feel
the bristles of the delinquent in your palm"
'I've had the tooth brush experience" said
the tall girlish woman who had been at an iso.
lated seashore resort, "but an even more annov-
ing trial was mine when / forgot to bring alcohol
for the little lamp that l carry with me- The
village had electricity for everything. There
wasn't gas jet in the place and no alcohol at
either of the two stores. You should see this
hair of mine for the two days that l was waiting
for the alcohol-I ordered sent from town."
Don't you know" said the little woman. 81
think it's part Of the female nature to forget
things until they are actually needed. We never
mend gloves till we are about to put them on,
and there are thousand other similar things that
should be attended to in time"
Better stop these confessions" said the tall
one, Laughing. Here comes John
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

fessional. When man begins to get sentimental
he yearns to tell girl all about his past life
He confesses his own sins to her. and those of his
friends.
Then he tells her that she is the only person
who ever really understood his intense nature
and that he only needs her angel influence to
enable him to lead the higher life.
The really bashful man who has made study
of the subject always proposes suddenly, and
when you least expect it. He doesn't waste a
word in preliminary compliments, because he has
screwed his courage up to the sticking point and
he dare not let turn of it 90.
There is silence, and then he catches his
breath and takes the plunge, as if he were jump.
ing into sea of ice and didn't know and didn't
care whether he ever came up again OF not.
"a disappointing lover, but an eminenty salts.
factory husband, is the business type. You have
been good friends, and he has confined to YOU
that he is getting on in the grocery trade and
last months sales were double those of the month
before.
Then one Sunday afternoon he steers YOU
round to some new fats or cottages, and, after
pointing out that the plumbing is exposed and SO
forth, he says; I say, Mary how would you like
to live here and be my little housekeeper?' And
II you have any sense you say Yes
THAT night you may shed few tears in the
silence OF your own room over the beauty of the
romance you have missed, but you will never
have to weep over bills you can't pay"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

to her a useful present. This curious ceremony,
which is supposed to take place quinquennially,
was last performed in the year 1901. But, of
course it always rests with the Mayor for the
time being as to whether it shall be carried out
not.
When the pretty Thames town of Maidenhead
takes it into its head to have ''beating of the
bounds" the steward appointed for that pur-
pose is always accompanied by large crowd of
curious people. These help him, or think they
do, when he has to climb over houses which
stand in his path, or to get through windows un-
der which the bounds pass. Also, when the
party meets any man by chance during its prog
ress it proceeds gravey to Dump" that indi-
vldual; but, if the person met should be a lady,
she is given the choice as to whether she will be
bumped" or kissed.
Nor is England the only country with such
compulsory kissing ceremonies. Halmagen, in
Austria, has an annual fair on st. Theodore's
Day, at which every man present has the right
to claim one lady and to kiss her, without her
having any right to object This strange custom
is the outcome of raid which was once made on
the town by Turkish brigands, who carried off
all the women as captiyes, But band of men
travelling in the district Glanced TO meet the
captors and forced them TO give up their vic
Tins, who were then kindly escorted to their
homes and friends In grateful remembrance of
the day the maidens of Halmagen annually offer
their lips modestly and freely to the strangers
whr frequent the town during the fair of st.
Theodore.