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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

Every car worker employed by the
New york Central lines viii be given
an advance IN wages of from 5 to 10
pc. cent. according to reports received
here last evening from Buffalo and
New York.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
One Woman Seriously Hurt

Cairo, H.. Dec. 17.-An Iron Noun
tain passenger train from Charleston.
Mo-, for st. Louis was wrecked on the
Belmont branch. Miss Bertha ScheI,
Of Charleston, was seriously injured
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

George /. Gardner, conductor on the
Michigan Central road, was on the sick
list last week.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

II. II. Sessler. formerly a switchman
on the Illinois Central road. has taken
a lob as switchman on the Wabash
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

John Lii from Marion. o.. has taken
a position as yard switchman at the
local Erie yards.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

r. Holland OF Huntington, Ind, was
in Hammond Saturday making repair
signals at the yards
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
RAILROAD NOTES.

c. r. Hidy Of the Erie Coal Storage
plant, is en- the sick list today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
Get Wages Increased.
time.

A press dispatch from Chicago says
that 1000 employees Of the Adams
Express company, one-fourth OF It's
total force. have had their pay in
creased. The rate of increase is not
given.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

w. H. Willis. signal engineer of the
Erie from New York city, transacted
business in Hammond Saturday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
Yardmaster Is Killed.

Albert C. Andres. yardmaster for the
Pennsylvania road. was killed in a
saloon quarrel yesterday at 0436
Princeton avenue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
Corn shredder Got His Hand.

Washington, Ind, Dec. II. = Elijah
Chapman caught his right hand in a
corn shredder. and it was ground of.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

Foreman Clayton Bonita is new
employe on the Nickel Plate road
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

r. III woodbeck, clerk at the Erie
yard office. has taken a position in
store at Wabash, md
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
Cardinal Gibbons Gives Testim ony.
Consul Generals Report Coming.

with the attitude Of the American
government I do not concern myself.
AS l said before. I have means of in
formation through missionaries in the
field, and I have no doubt the Ameri-
can government will be fully informed
Of the situation through its consul gen.
eral there, who. am told, only recent
had time to send in a report"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

At length the Central Passenger as
ISOLATION has announced the holiday
rate. 1t has been fixed at two cents a
mile From Dec. % to % inclusive the
Christmas rate will be in effect, and
the New Years rate Will begin Dec. ~
and be good to and including Jan 2.
These rates are about the same as
those in vogue last year, and probably
be good all over the territory in the as
sociation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17
That Charles Henrotin, Belgian
Consul lat Chicago, Is Do.
ing Lobby Work.
WOULD COVER CONGO DEvILTRY
Consul Henrotin Says the Doctors
Statement Is a Lie"
Reverend Gentleman Paints Congo
Horrors Very Red Cardinal
Gibbons Gives Testimony
the Other Way.

Chicago, Dec. IA ccuSationS were
made by Rev Herbert S. Johnson, Of
Boston, in an address delivered in the
Park Avenue Methodist cf'1rch here,
against Charles Henrotin, Belgian con
sui at Chicago whom he charged with
being a member of a Belgian lobby
working to prevent the United States
government from noticing the alleged
atrocities in the Congo Free State, and
with being in the pay Of King Leopold
of Belgium DR.. Johnson declared that
representation soon will be made to the
state department at Washington,
which will be followed by a demand
to the Belgium government that Hen
rotin be removed from the Chicago
consulate.
Gives him the Lie Direct.
Henrotin made specific denial of be
ing a member of the Belgium lobby,
adding that he doubted that such lobby
exists. IF DR. Johnson says | am a
member Of the sO-called Belgium lobby
he lies, " said Consul Henrotin. Il most
emphatically deny it. There have been
atrocities in Congo. but they occurred
years ago. King Leopold is doing his
utmost to suppress atrocities and pun
ish violations Of the law"
Says Natives Are Whipped 10 Death.
DR. Johnson, who is pastor of War
rem Avenue Baptist church, Boston,
was introduced by Professor Jerome
IT. Raymond, of the University of Chi
cago. 1.-THE atrocities in the Congo are
a thousand times worse than is gener-
ally known said Dr. Johnson. King
Leopold has taken the lands Of the ma
tive population and has enslaved from
25.O0O.O00 to $4,000, 600 black people. If
the natives are not quick enough in
bringing in an amount of rubber to suit
the kings agents they are whipped to
DEATH
Cardinal Gibbons Gives Testim ony.
Apropos to this Congo atrocity ques-
ton Cardinal Gibbons, who says his
church hears through its missionaries
whenever there is cruelty shown the
natives declares that There has been
a great amount of exaggeration in these
stories Of maladministration. King
Leopold is a wise as we'll as a humane
ruler" The cardinal says that when
cases of cruelty have occurred the king
has been prompt to punish the offend
ers.
Consul Generals Report Coming.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

General superintendent Magee Of the
Wabash line, says that hereafter it will
be the rule for passengers leaving the
ear to get off at the forward end and
for those getting on the cars to enter
at the rear end. He expects that by
that rule the time required for pas
sengers getting off and on will be Just
one-half what it now IS, and he thinks
that the travelling public will soon be
educated up to this method, and It viii
save annoyance and delay in trains.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

p J.. O'Dea, general car inspector Of
the Erie, says that the car situation
on the Erie at present is the best in
\ number Of months. The department
IS "wen up" on light repairs and more
heavy car work is being done at the
more important points than for some
time.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-17

Raymond Bixby. stenographer at the
Erie yard office, has quit the Erie anc
will take a position in bank at An
drews, Ind.
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WHAT DID YOU GET?
Go ahead, pay the landlord your goo
hard earned dollars each month;
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?"
Figure up what you have to show
or the hundreds of dollars you have
aid him. fat bundle Of receipts;
THAT'S ALL YOU GOT"

How much are they worth today?
You couldn't buy a crust of bread with
'em. What will landlord" do II you
fail to pay your rent?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
TRAVELLING ORPHANAGE.
II. NJ. Draper Starts From Detroit
With II Orphans In an Auto.

Detroit, Oct. 20.-H. NJ. Draper,
former superintendent of an orphan
age at Houghton, will start from De-
troit this week with 21 orphans in a
specially built automobile to tour the
continent, giving concerts intending to
wind up at Seattle next year with
funds to start an orphanage.
Draper was successful as superin-
tendent, but differed from the trus-
tees on questions of policy. The chill
dren were excluded under a rule pro.
hibiting any child from remaining in
the institution more than six months
Draper's car cost $780, and fund.
to purchase 1t were raised by child.
ren's concerts. His route will bent
south to avoid bad weather, Seattl,
being reached some time next year.
The party consists of ~ girls ant
nine boys. to 10 years of age, o
seven nationalities. and of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Draper, George Strong, the build
er and operator of the automobile, ant
teacher who will hear lessons be
tween towns.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
sss - .
GENERAL NEWS.
sSs so

Portland. Me, felt an earthquake
Of small size saturday. But little dam
age vas done.
Buck Ewing. one of the most
noted ball players of the country, is
dead at Cincinnati.
Montana is a great fruit region.
Smith River valley exhibited apples
at the state fair this year that We're
grown at the altitude OF SEQ feet
above the sea level.
subscriptions of over 100000 for
the building Of a private automobile
race course on Long Island have been
made. It is said the course will cost
S2,Oe0.0OO.
John Jacob Astor is the largest pri-
vate owner of automobiles in thi:
country. They number "a. the aver.
age cost Of each is about $4,000, max.
ing a total of 100000 invested in hi!
machines.
Bishop J. ]. O'Conner. of Newark
y. j., has warned all the Roman
Catholic pastors in his diocese tina
the hymn Nearer. Ny God. t,
Thee must not be sung hereafter il
any Catholic church in the diocese.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
INCREASED FARM VALUES.
Increase of $4,000, ,OOo, 900 In the Past
Year.

The Chicago Livestock World in re-
viewing farm values in the United
States, says
The splendid progress the country
has made during the past few years is
illustrated by the rise in farm values.
The wealth Of the nation has greatly
increased during the past five years
and not the least addition has been
In farm values
According to a circular issued by tn.
department Of agriculture, based on
$4,000 answers to its Inquiries, It Is
estimated that throughout the whole
country farm land has increased more
| than o8 per cent in value since 1900.
| The last census placed the tota
value Of all farms In the United States
ut S9O,43O. 600, 900, 20 that the increase
since then, II the estimate Of the ag
ricultural department is correct, /,
nearly eight billions of dollars.
The figures ought to be very graft
| Tying. IT Is good evidence that ouI
vast agricultural interests have beer
prosperous as well as other great in
terests.
Some of the reasons given for thu
rise in values are rural free delivery
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
. Q .
NORTHWEST NEWS. .

Considerable activity in the con-
struction of business building is going
on in North Yakima. This town is
said to be growing rapidly.
Bernard Duffey, convicted of hold
ing up and robbng a man of S5 cents
in san Francisco, has been sentenced
to serve 10 years in prison.
Fred De Ford formerly a butcher
at Canyon City, is under arrest
charged with the larceny of many
beef cattle. He was arrested at Boise,
Idaho.
Two collisions on a piece of track
90 miles long, occurred within an
hour OF each other. on the Great
Northern near Wenatchee, Wash.
Several of the trainmen were injured.
Reports from many sections of the
northwest are that the wood supply
is shorter this season than it was last
year. \ wood famine is feared in
| several localities.
Frank KEGS. warden of the Wash
ingtun state penitentiary at Walla
| Walla, has been discharged from of
| flee by Governor Mead. Selling grain
bags to a finn for speculation is th'
! alleged cause for the removal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

ihterurban railways, good roads, bet
ter market facilities, cheaper transpor-
tation and more intensive farming
one encouraging feature is that most
or all of these conditions and influ-
rnces are likely to continue, so that we
may reasonably expect a continued in
crease in farm values, though It may
he less rapid than in the past five
years.
High prices, good crops and land
speculation have been factors in rails
ing land values, but they are not
among the factors that can be safely
counted upon In the future. If the
general prosperity is maintained, high
prices for farm products will he also
At least that has been the experience
of the country in the past. 1t is saf.
| prediction, however, that the present
values of good lands will be main.
tanned and that five years hence they
will 5e considerably higher.
The conditions that have influenced
the increase in large measure are like
ly to be maintained and probably mul
tiplied. The farmer never was in bet
ter circumstances nor had brighte
promises for the future.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
MORE WILD DEER THAN CATTLE.
| Elk and Deer Protected by Colorado
Game Laws Increase Rapidly.

Game Laws Increase Rapidly.
Colorado has more wild deer now
than any other state in the Union, says
the Denver Times. There are as many
wild deer N this state as cattle. The
laws protecting them from the reck-
less and greedy slayers have made
great increase In their numbers, and
hunters who have visited their haunts
this season make the most enthusias-
tic reports.
w. S. Klncaid. general superinten-
dent of the fish hatcheries killed one
of the biggest bucks ever brought to
Denver. The animal weighed 275
pounds. There are eight points on
one of It's horns and seven points on
the other C. L. McFadden, the taxi
dermist, who mounted the head, said
1t was the largest he ever saw.
II. II. Zeitz. who just arrived from
a hunting trip. said he saw over 200
bucks in the mountains avout IS miles
northeast of Newcastle. He went
past Sleepy Cat mountains. In Rio
| Blanco, Routt and Garfield counties
the hunters say they never saw 81
many deer before. In 1899, when the
body of the game law went in effect
the deer were scarce, because they
had not been protected. Under the
| first law the open season lasted near
| ly three months, and this was moi
protection enough. But in 1903 ar
amendment was made shortening tn,
open season to 16 days, as it stands
today. A hunter is allowed to xii
only one deer, and that must be j.;
buck with horns and at least / yea
| old.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
Founder OF GoldendaIe Dead.

John ]. Golden, the first settler in
Klickitat county and founder of the
city of Goldendale, a native of the
Keystone state. having been born in
Westmoreland county, March IS, 1926
is dead at Goldendale.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

An offer of $225,O00 has been made
for the property of the First Presby-
terian church, Fourth avenue and
Spring street, Seattle. II may be ac-
cepted. The property includes the
building and the site, which Is a
double corner, 120x120.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
Don't Speculate
With Pianos
Deal With an Established Tnstitution---Not
come-by-day and Gone-by-nisht Firm.

If you are contemplating the purchase of piano.
it will paw you to deal with an established company
one that makes no rash promises and then fails to live
up to them; one who establishes branch office
only when the business of that section juStfieS and
wnen they established in city, are permanent in
stitution, one of the citys business houses always
there to deal with the people and not come by day
and gone by night experimental firm.
In dealing with Eiers Piano House, you have
the most celebrated pianos always at your very door, so
that if you wish to step in and examine the different
styles and makes,
Besides you are not speculatng on the outcome
of your DEAL for you dealing with established and
permanent institution, branch of the Eers Piano
House. the largest piano dealers in the northwest.
Let this be food for thought. You do not buy
piano every day. So when you do, be sure that you
get Just what you want that is just what it is repre-
sented to be and that you dealing with establish
ed and reliable firm.
We are here to stay, and been making many i'm
provements in our saeSrooms in order to better
accommodate our increased patronage.
At your earliest convenience step in and see our
splendid showing of high grade pianos
EilerS Piano House
Dispensers of Piano Reliability.
sl3 MAIN STREET.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
i'RHON|MUS TELLS OF THE SHOOTING

Thou shalt not kill" is said to
have been commanded unto Moses
many years ago. But by mankind that
tenet has been changed until it reads
to the effect that a man shall not slay
another except for certain reasons. 1t
is an unwritten law, among white men
ut least, that for some crimes against
his family and his home a man is jus
titled in using violence against the
evil doer. There are other occasions,
too, upon which the use of a gun is
held partly eXcusable. In eastern
Oregon and some other localities of
the west a commandment that has
been regarded as almost higher than
the sixth of the 10. is the one which
forhids man from stealing his neigh
bor's horse.
Whether or not Tom Myers was
horse thief need not be said here, for
he is dead. Whether or not A. D.
Rhonlmus is guilty of murder is for
| jury of 12 to determine. But in
view of the fact that a coroner's jury,
| composed of relatives and friends of
! the man who was killed has declared
| that he was slain in cold blood, it is
| but fair to old man Rhonimus that
his story be told. This is written as
the result of a long talk with the
prinsoner as he lay on his cot in the
jury room at the court house yester-
day morning.
Sorry for Deed.
81 am glad that I saved my horses
but l am sorry that I had to kill {
man to do it," said the aged prisoner
when asked how he then felt about hi
fight,
There is more meaning in tina
statement than appears upon the sur
: face. To old man Rhonimus hi
horses were his family. He live
alone and was without human rela
tives. His band of 90 or more horse
is about all he has. Upon his sorre
filly. his bay gelding and the othe
animals OF the bunch, he has be
slowed more than the ordinary car
which man gives his chattels. H
never branded a horse.
"Why should I burn them" sal
he, when I know them as well a
you would your child. It would Lesser
their market value and there is n
reason why I should brand them, eX
cept to keep a thief from doing So"
That his horses were being stolen
the earnest belief of old man RhOni
MUS. Whether such is true or not
I, ! is his firm conviction that he ha
been robbed in the past by Myers an
his friends. He declares that when h
confronted Myers and young Robert
Thursday, they were in the act {
: rounding up horses that were nC
y theirs Regarding the same he said:
{ 1.-The young devil was farther u
/ the hill than Tom Myers and betwee
them they had the horses they ha
gathered. My sorrel filly and my ba
. gelding and a horse belonging to P'
: were in the band. I caught the
n right in the act"
. Gives His Version.
According to Rhonimus your
Roberts put spurs to his horse al
= fled the minute he came into sigh
BY the time the fight commenced
was several hundred yards away.
the meantime Myers had dismount'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22
Trouble Was Brewing.

There are other things also. that
old man Rhonimus said about his
past experiences with Myers and some
others of that community. But they
need not be told here. If the old gen.
tleman is tried in the circuit court
for murder they will be admissible
then for the purpose of showing what
led up to the bloody fight of last
Thursday.
Andrew d. Rhonimus will be 76
years old If he lives until next jan
uary. He will do that, for he is as
hardy as a pine knot. He has led an
eccentric life, which is his own busi-
ness so long as he does right and obeys
the laws of his country. According
to his statement he has done the lat
ter He says he never killed a man
before nor shot at one except during
the three years which he served un-
der the stars and stripes in the 18th
Ohio infantry. Several years ago he
was accused of having shot at some
men whom he claims were engaged in
/ horse stealing. But he says 1t was an
empty gun he used that time.
That he has been robbed for 10
years past is declared by Rhonimus,
! and in this statement he Is upheld by
some of his neighbors, who are relia-
BILE men. If such is true the only
wonder is that trouble did not occur
long ago, for though he is peculiar the
old man is not a coward.
E. B. a.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-22

and was standing behind his horse
with his pistol leveled at Rhonimus.
The latter threw himself off his
horse. He says that Myers fired
twice at him before he sent the fatal
charge In return. The first pistol
bullet struck Rhonimus' horse, while
the second hit the old man in the left
thigh. He SAYS he then sank to the
ground, but caught himself and rest
ed on his right knee. While Myers
was preparing to send a third bullet
at him, he says he leveled his shot
gun and fired at his antagonists
head.
He put his hands in front of him
and fell down the hill. That was the
last l saw of him." declared the pris-
oner.
According to the old mans story
Jesse Roberts lied regarding what was
said when he came upon the two just
| before the killing. He declares that
not a word was uttered, but that each
man merel yprepared for the battle,
| Myers doing so by dismounting and
| drawing his pistol. Had there been
anything said, he says the boy could
not have heard it, for he was running
too fast Also he declares that Rob-
erts told a falsehood regarding what
was said at the first meeting an hour
or so before the shooting. He says he
did not say he would kill Myers, oil
anything to that effect. During the
conversation he says that he referred
sarcastically to time when Myers
and others had sheared some horses
in corral. He declares that Myer!
, denied having done so and called hin
liar. The old man then rode of
I and he says that as. he was leavini
= Myers threatened to tie him to tree
5 and that he threw stones at him a
1 he rode away, one striking him in th'
= back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-07
REPORT OF JOHN D. CAMPBELL, Nevada's Foremost Mining Engineer,
 ON THE Eagles Nest Fairview Mining Company
, the President and Directors
ON THE
Goldfeld, Nevada, Sept. 1s, 1906

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-07
REPORT OF JOHN D. CAMPBELL, Nevada's Foremost Mining Engineer,
 ON THE As.You-Like.It Manhattan Mining Company
Goldfield, Nevada, Sept. 22. 1906.

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