davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1906-02-14
STATE LEGISLATURE
New Jersey Lawmakers Put In
a Busy Week at Trenton.
FRANCHISE COMMISSION REPORTS
Advises Against Municipal Operation
of Street RaiIways-TO Limit Grant
of Privileges to Thirty-three Years.
Decentralization Denounced.
Especial Correspondence

Trenton, Feb. S.-The busiest week
the legislature has yet experienced was
closed yesterday wednesday, after a
series of hearings, committee meetings,
conferences and sessions. The calen-
dar was not cleared up Tuesday after
noon, the usual time for adjournment
for the week, and the lawmakers decid-
ed to remain over another day in order
to get a fresh start next Monday night.
They adjourned Wednesday for the
week.
The liquor traffic and automobile reg
ulation occupied considerable attention,
and well attended hearings were held
on these subjects.
One of the most important matters
of the week was the report of the com
mission appointed last year to investi-
gate all franchises granted by munich
p%alities to public utility corporations.
The commission gives a brief resume
of legislation relating to the power of
municipalities to grant franchises.
They advise as follows:
First.-Against municipal operation of
blIttl IaliWdyS, uiSlIlE II diiiituilitS III
the way of such operation in view of the
extension of railway systems through diff
ferent municipalities
Second.-Recommending that the power
to grant franchises should remain with
the municipality.
Third.-AIl privileges hereafter granted
shall be limited and not exceed thirty
three years unless a majority vote shall
decide to extend it for "A period not ex-
ceeding siXty-SiX years.
Fourth.-At the expiration of the grant
the municipality shall have to again fix
the terms of a further grant not exceed
ing thirty-three years.
Fifth.-Recommending the repeal of
laws limiting the construction of street
railways parallel to existing lines.
Sixth.-The practice prevailing in the is
sue of excessive stocks and bonds under
guise of law should be made impossible.
Seventh.-There should be changes in
the standard of gas prescribed for COM
panies organized under the general law
DIT a new standard adopted for all.
Eighth.-Recommending that the limi-
tations as to places in which water COM
panies may operate should be removed
and powers given to acquire, build, own
and operate water and light companies.
Ninth.-There should be no change in
the present method of imposing franchise
taxes or fees.
Among the house bills passed Tues
day was that of ~Assemblyman Wright
Passaic) giving county boards of free
holders complete control over roads
constructed by state aid. Another i'm
portant bill passed by the house was
one fixing the annual meetings of
boards of ~freeholders on Jan. l at the
courthouse. The house passed the sen
ate resolution thanking Captain Casio
and his crew for the heroic rescue of
passengers on the i'll fated steamer
Cherokee.
, 1906-02-14
New Railway Taxation Bill.

Another railroad taxation bill found
its way into the house of assembly
when Asselnblyman ArrowSmith of
Hudson introduced a bill providing that
the real estate of railroads and canals
be assessed and taxed by local assess
ors in the same manner and at the
same rate as other real estate taxable
in the same taxing districts Taxable
personal property of such corporations
shall be similarly assessed and taxed in
the districts where located. The bill
provides that franchises and tangible
personal property not located in a sin
gle taxing district shall be assessed by
state boards of assessors at an average
tax rate, which tax shall go to the
state.
Mr.. Everett presented a bill making
If n high miSdemeanor to take from her
home n woman child under sixteen
years old for marriage or immoral pur-
poses.
Mr.. Barber offered a bill providing
for the taxing of all corporations not
now subject to state franchise tax.
Mr.. Barber presented a joint resolu-
ton authorizing the governor to APP
point a commission of three to report
on the feasibility of a law for a division
of the profits of public utility corpora
lions between the corporations and
such municipalities rs grant them fran
chises.
Mr.. Minturn introduced a bill which
prohibits corporations from contribut-
ing any aid in the election of public Off
GERS.
Mr.. Cornish presented a bill to regu-
late the sale of patent or proprietary
medicines. 1t provides that every pat
ent medicine bottle must bear a sched-
ule showing its ingredients and their
proportions. The word poison must
be on every bottle containing a certain
percentage of alcohol, morphine, CO
caine and like drugs.
The governor sent in these nomina-
lions Monday night for members of the
state board of education; For the Sec
, 1906-02-14

ond district. James b. Woodward: the
Fourth, S. st. J. McCutcheon; the Sixth,
Francis Scott; the Eighth, James l..
Hays.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
SOOTHING AT DECENCY.

casual remark dropped by State
Treasurer Moore, to a reporter of a
Portland paper yesterday regarding
the movement for municipal decency
in Salem gives a true insight into the
sentiment of many seemingly con-
scientious and capable men.
In speaking of the movement to
clean out gambling and immortality in
Salem, Mr.. Moore calls those who are
behind the movement, "the purity
people," as though it were a reproach
for q man to stand for cleanliness and
public honor.
Who is Moore, that he should be-
little the honest efforts of the people
of Salem or of Oregon, or of the
United States for cleansing the gov
ernment of its parasites, both finan.
cial and moral?
Instead of speaking slightingly OF
Su1h movements lilSltdu VI SldlulHe
aloof while conscientious citizens are
fighting for the betterment of society
men like Moore, who have enjoyed tht
bounty of their fellow citizens, shoulc
at least lend their moral support t.
any movement which promises better
conditions.
Such sentiment from leading men
not only of Oregon, but of othe
states, is the chief cause of this wide
spread public dishonesty which ha
shaken the country from center t.
circumference within the past few
years and in the eradication of whicl
all the available forces of the govern
ment have been devoted with grea
cost
Every man in a responsible If
either in public or private life
owes his best effort to society. In
stead of discouraging every thinking
and law-abiding man should encour
age public cleanliness, decency and in
tegrity, as well as private cleanlines
and integrity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16

House there was an outbreak of the
same sort, though not to the same
extent, and he and his wife were pur-
sued on the wedding trip by packs of
people with cameras and field glasses.
Not only has political influence
been used to solicit invitations to Miss
Roosevelt's wedding. but rich vulgar
ians, not even acquainted with the
Roosevelt or Longworth families,
have sent in costly presents with re-
quests for an invitation TO the we'd
ding. Nothing can be more vulgar
nor more eXasperating. It implies
that invitations are put up to trade
for wedding presents, and the low
suggestion is very properly resented.
These incidents are by no means
representative of American society
They are illustrative of the vulgar
and reprehensible class of climbers
who have no motive in life except to
get into what in their ignorance and
besotted ambition they suppose to be
social high life. The only compliment
there is in wedding invitation is its
voluntary bestowment upon one who
is esteemed as a friend OF the parties,
and of their families. If bestowed or
accepted for any other reason it loses
all significance.
The president and the Longworths
naturally wish that this occasion, of
so much interest to them. shall re-
tain in all of its features the sanctitv
of the family and the friendly rela-
ton. They desire that it shall have
no political or other significance at
which good taste revolts. Such be-
ing their desire the annoyance to
which they have been subjected by
the climbers" must be immeasura.
BILE.
1t would be proper punishment TO
expose the impudent and ignorant
creatures who have in any way solic-
tied invitations, to the end that the
press of the country might crafty
their desire for social notoriety by
flaying them to finish, and making
them bear a burden of ridicule and
apprehension that would be a warning
to all the low bred snobs of the fu-
ture.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
EVA BOOTHS GROWN OF GLORY

Clad in the tattered garb of Lon
don flower girl, Miss Eva Booth, head
of the Salvation Army in America.
told an audience of 5000 in New York
the other night the secret of her sue
cess in rescuing the perishing.
Four words sum up the total of her
ideal-Love, Sympathy, Sacrifice, Ac-
tion-each word typifies a chapter
from the life of this useful young
woman, who through all her years
has been battling in the shadows to
make better men and women of the
worlds hopeless, forlorn and forsaken
multitudes. Her Christianity is
broader than creed her charity knows
only want, and the Lords vineyard
is the world that lies about her.
MY name has been associated with
sorrow" she told that immense audi
ence. From childhood the broken
sob OF the little child has gone
straight to my heart, and have never
stood between any one and happi-
ness. memphis News-Scimitar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
THE WANDERER.

Upon a mountain height, far from the
sea, .-F
found she'll.
And in my listening ear this lonely
- thing
Ever Il song of ocean seem'd to sing
Ever a tale of ocean seem'd to tell
How came the shell upon the noun
tain height?
All. who can say
Whether there dropped by some toe
careless hand
Whether there cast when oceans
swept the land
Ere the eternal had ordained the
day.
Strange, was 1t not? Far from Its
native deep,
One song II sang;
Sang Of the awful mysteries of the
tide,
Sang of the restless sea, profound and
wide
Even with echoes of the ocean rang.
And as the shell upon the mountain
height
Sang of the sea.
So do | ever wandering where may,
Sing, o my home! sing, o my home!
of thee!
Eugene Field.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
STEEL RIVALS CORN.

A New York dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: "Steel is
prince, even as corr is king. Happy
is the land under the sway of such
bountiful potentates. Sometime prince
and sometime pauper, according to
the high authority of Andrew Carne-
gle, steel has come into its own and
is wallowing in wealth.
With net income OF nearly $780,
100000, as revealed in the report of
the United States Steel corporation to-
day, Prince Steel may well smile at
his days of beggary. These net earn
ings represent a total business of
something like 100000, 900, and that
is the product of an army of 165, 900
| of the best paid artisans of all the
world. Moreover, the new year was
started with orders on the books FOR
more than 1000, 900 tons of finished
goods, more by 100000 tons than
ever before reported.
| These figures are staggering in
their magnitude. They are highly
significant to the ordinary man be-
cause they reflect the amazing pros
| perity of the country. 1t Is true that
the net earnings of the steel trust
were more than s133,O0O 900 in 1902
but the indications are that 1906 viii
be the banner year, and will show the
most marvellous development in the
steel trade that the world has evel
seen. The earnings of the trust fol
the last three months Of 1905 make q
|
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
FIXED ALL RIGHT.

An automobilist who was touring
through the country saw, walking
ahead of him, nan followed by a
dog. As the machine drew near them
the dog started suddenly to cross the
road He was hit by the car and
killed Immediately. The motorist
stopped his machine and approached
the man. "I'm very sorry, my man,
that this has happened, he said. "Will
s5 fix it2"
"Oh, yes" said the man, "$5 will
fix it, ] guess"
Pocketing the money as the car
disappeared In the distance, he look
ed down at the dead animal.
"I wonder whose dog 1t was?" he
said.-Ladies' Home Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
THE COAL MINER.

Through the sunless hours at his
weary work
The miner tolls in the damp and
murk.
Cabined in gloom, what part does he
play
In the whirl of the world where we
know the day?
Doing her sixty miles or more.
The train rushes by with a booming
roar.
City and hamlet across the land
Binding fast in her flying band.
Speeding the soldier home again,
Speeding the widow, the girl and the
bride
Freighted with grief, with mirth,
with pride,
Rushes the train. And the thousands
go
By grace of the moiling man below;
For the miner. sweating under the
ground,
Makes all the wheels of the world go
round
Bursting the massy wave to spray,
The mighty steamship holds her way,
AS certain in her certain course
As If she moved embodied force.
Scorning the seas and linking lands,
The steamship goes; and by the hands
OF the miner, sweating under ground.
Who makes the wheels of the world
go round.
-Wex Jones
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
RAMPANT SNOBBERY.

The action Of society people, So
called, in regard to the wedding of
Miss Roosevelt, is an exhibition of
snobbery that has never been equaled
in this country, says the San Fran
cisco Call. It has compelled the
president in self-defense to issue an
explanation concerning the invita-
tations and their number.
While the lady is the daughter OF
the president Of the United States, her
marriage is none the less a purely
personal matter, affecting only the
two families concerned, who are just
as free in the matter of Invitations to
the ceremony as If all of the parties
were in private life. When Mr.
Cleveland was married in the White
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
WELCOME THE TOURISTS.

Tomorrow the tourist rate of s25
from Missouri river points to the Pa
cific coast goes into effect.
How will Pendleton welcome the
tourist? What will she offer him as
a memento that such a place exists on
the map? What does she place be-
fore him, by which he may know the
resources. advantages, induce ments
and surroundings of this greatest
county in eastern Oregon?
There is no literature concerning
the county to distribute, there is no
exhibit of resources at the depot,
there is nothing to attract him to
Pendleton, nothing to invite him to
stop over and view the county and
perhaps become an investor.
What does Pendleton hope to Sc
cure from the heavy travel promised
on the cheap rate and how does she
hope to secure it?
1t seems that there is field fol
work in all the various circles in the
city. All the business interests here
are interested in securing new blood
new money, new settlers, new enter
prises. This is a common platform
on which all can stand. Then VIII!
not get together and print some litera
ture. fix up some exhibits and make
a showing for the county at the de
pot? The tourist will be attracted
and good results will surely follow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
CANADIANS WANT OUR HOGS.

Consul Worman, of Three Rivers,
Canada, reports that the shutting out
of American hogs going into Canada
under bond has raised a storm among
the Dominion pork packers, who
claim that they can not get nearly
enough home hogs to keep their fac
tories running.
Mr.. Fearman, one of the packers
claims that the American hogs do not
bring disease into the country, that
the product is not sold abroad as Can
adian pork, and Canadian labor Is now
curtailed in favor of American pack
ing house employees.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-16
gslssI 5&5EIsjfM
\&6sffrsl%


y
= What do you know, little boy, =
+ little boy, 1
+ OF the years that hitherward 4
+ run, 4
= Bright with life's gold or gray Z
+ with alloy, Z
+ Dripping with tears or smiling Z
+ in joy? Z
= What of their prize unwon? Z
= What are they bearing to curse =
+ you or bless? .
= What shall they build or de- .
= stroy? 4
= What of the path that your feet I
+ shall press 4
= What do you know, little boy? 4
= What do you know, little girl, Z
+ little girl, +
= Dreaming your dream of +
+ bliss? =
Z What shall the fabric of years +
+ unfurl, +
T Straight from the loom whence +
our life-webs whirl? +
What shall you gain or miss? +
+ Little heart broken, or little Z
soul glad? +
Days as of jet, or of pearl? 4
: How shall the on-sweeping NOR =
= rows be clad +
+ What do you know, little girl? +
A. ]. Waterhouse. =
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
Talks of Charges.

Asked about the charges that had been
made against Taylor. Pollard said:
1T is a very painful subject to me.
and one which, 1 think should not be
given newspaper notoriety, no matter
whether the charges against the pastor
are true or not. ] feel very badly about
the whole matter. for Mr.. Taylor. who
Is siNty-tve years old and a grand
gather. has been my friend for many
eyars re was the friend of my parents
I'm Richmond before they came 10 this
city fOrty-tWO years ago.
Mr. Taylor has been here sixteen
years. and has always commanded the
confidence and affection Of his follow
eTs-"
Tavlor was one OF the Washington
ministers chosen 10 represent his race at
the international conference held in Lon
don last winter
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
RELIGIOUS MANIAC
A WOULD-BE ABEDNEGO

RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 1O.-Protest-
ing that God had commanded him to
three days. Edward =. Bowler, twenty
seven years old. suffering with re-
ligious mania and mentally unbalanced
because Of the recent death OF "a sister
was pulled back while posed IN front
OF the open furnace at the American
Tobacco COmpany's works this morn
ing SO close was the man to the
opening that when caught he fell and
his right arm entered the fire and was
nearly burned on His head and back
also came in contact with the hot sides
Of the furnace and were badly blis-
tered. He will live. however.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
JAPANESE CAUSE
CUSTOMS TROUBLES
Preventing Chinese From
Establishing Port at
An-Tung.

PEEIN. Aug. 10-The establishment
Of Chinese customs al An-Tung. on the
YaIu, a port opened under the American
treaty OF October s. 1903, is meeting with
considerable difficulty. The Japanese
have appropriated for a nominal pay
meEt during their military occupation,
tho whole river frontage for several
miles: and all the land outside the ma
tive city available for foreign settle
ment This makes il quite impossible
10 obtain a site for the proposed GUS
toms house,
The japanese settlement is so exclu-
siveIy Japanese that even Chinese
coolies are forbidden 70 enter This
Wholesale expropriaEion, which the Jap
anese are pressing the Chinese TO legal
lie. causes some misgivings as 10 whetn-
er japan intends TO fulfill article ~ OF
the ManchurIan agreement providing
for The restitution TO China OF all prop
erty appropriated during military occu-
patton.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
MOTHER IS DROWNED
TRYING TO SAVE Boy

TRENTON. Nj. Aug 10-Mrs. Keziah
Sneider end her eight-year-old son Ray
mond wer drowned ar Titusvtlle. in the
Delaware and Raritan canal. The moth
er died trying to save the boys life.
The lad was fshing in front of bis
home. while the mother was sewing. = he
bow slipped from a log upon which he
was sitting. The mother saw the accl-
dent Che attempted % grasp the lad s
clothing, bat being unable TO do so jump
ed into the water. No one witnessed the
tragedy
Mr.. SnaIder returned from work At 9
o. IN. He walked into his home and
sat dovln a few moments. believing his
wife ;iDstairs AfteTward Sneider gave
the alarm, and party used graphing
IRONS in the water Mrs Sneider's body
was found after a search OF two hours.
The boys body was found later.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
OIL KINGS FACE
PAINTED IN OIL

NEW YORK. Aug 10-John D. Rookie
teller has given HIS consent 80 have his
picture painted. wig and all Neryal II.
Russy is 70 be the artist.
IL was a portrait of Samuel T. DOdd.
the retired general solicitor OF the
STANDARD OIL Company, done by Mr.
Pussy, Which gave Mr.. Rockefeller the
idea OF having his wig painted. After
seeing the portrait Of Mr.. Dodd he called
at the Busy studio and asked the artist
how he thought a portrait cf him wear
ing a wig would look. The artist, with
supreme frankness, replied.
at would be a great improvement.
Your expression would not be so cold
and hard"
''Well, suppose YOU begin right away.
said Mr.. Rockefeller. and Mr.. Busy be-
gan. The finished portrait VIII be ready
for an admiring world before long.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
MORTON NOT BLAMED
FOR RAILROAD REBATES

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has issued an official statement re-
garding the cor yJction of the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Com
pany for giving rebates. in which It
completely exonerated former Secretary
Morton and other officials. saying that
1.-THE avowed purpose OF the practice
tends to support the view" that there
was no criminal intent on their part.
Attention Is called To the fact that
with the imposition Of the $4,000 the his
tory of the case is probably closed. The
statement praises President Roosevelt
and Attorney General Moody for carry
ing out with success the administra-
TONS declared purpose to enforce the
statute IN all such cases.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
japanese Government
Blames the Chinese

TOKYO Japan, Aug. 1O-The insist
ent refusal of the Chinese government
TO live up 10 the spirit of the treaties
made with JaDan and the United States
To open AIulldeu, Antung, and seventeen
other Manchuridn cities as places or IN
ternatiOnal residence and trade Is caus-
ing considerable unfaVOrable comment
in government circles here.
China is taking the ground that the
opening of Mukden means the opening
or an unoccupicd area outside the city
and that foreign trade and residence be
confined 20 that area Furthermore,
she insists that goods entering MuEden
from that area shall be liable 20 all
duties and taxes. which China may con-
tlnoe ~ impose as hitherto.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
.HARTJES TO LEAVE
PITTSBURG HOME
VIII Probably Locate in Phil
adelphia or New
York.

PITTsBURG. Aug. 1o.-Mrs Augustus
Hartje and her two children. her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. John Scott,
and their two unmarried daughters,
Helen and Ida. VIII leave Pittsburg
forever. so soon as the decision is rem
dered in the HarLje divorce suit.
They have not decided where they viii
reside hut their choice has settled down
10 New York or Philadelphia They do
not intend % seek seclusion, as they are
keeping dressmakers busy that they
may appear in society In apparel suit
able 10 their wealth.
The change is made chiefly for the
benefit of Mrs. HaTtje's little ones, Mary
Louise and Scott who have been the
victims Of the persecution of young and
thoughIless school and play mates.
The Washington times., 1906-08-10
Mr.. TAYLOR QUITS
IS SHILOH PASTOR
Steps Down and Out as Re-
suit of Circulation of
Reports.
ASTATEMENT IS TO BE MADE
long Passionate to End With Resigna-
ton for Best Interests of Shiloh
Congregation.

The Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor
Of the Shiloh Baptist Church. near the
corner Of Sixteenth and L streets north
west. one Of the largest coIored churches
I'm the city, has resigned. His reslgna-
ton comes alter sixteen years Of service.
His withdrawal was determined upon
after stories had been circulated among
the colored people throughout the city.
In which charges were made against the
pastors character All OF the charges
aro denied by him, as well as by the
officers of the church, but the reports
have become so widely circulated that
he decided it would be better for the
church If he should give up active par
ticipatIon in the services, for a time. at
least