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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
A JAPANESE LEGEND.
The Girl Fish and the Shinto shrine
Mt Choshi.

The Girl Fish and the Shinto shrine
Mt ChOshi.
Most Shinto shrines in Japan have a
story. Here is one which is told of the
leading shrine of Choshi: A traveller
was entertained in the home of a rich
man. A daughter of the host fell in
love with the traveller, who did not
care for her because she was ugly
Being under obligation to the family,
he could not ignore the girls love, so
he told her that he meant to drown
himself the next day. She decided to
do the same and did it. The traveller
gave up the idea-if he ever had it.
One of the gods changed the girl into
a fish, and to this day the fishermen Of
the town often see that particular fish
In the waters near their shores. Some
times she is caught in the nets, but she
is always reverently returned to the
sea. A shrine was erected on the hill
above the town and dedicated to the
memory Of the girl fish.
Before starting out to sea the fisher
men go to this shrine to pray for good
luck, and in their absence the families
continue to invoke the favor Of the god.
A storm at sea or absence of good luck
means that the fish god has been OF
Tended and must be appeased by spe-
clal oferings.-Chicago News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
NEWSPAPERS.
striking Things That Grent Men
Have Snid About Them.

striking Things That Grent Men
Have Said About Them.
A correspondent requests that we
print some of the striking things great
men have said about newspapers-that
is, sayings that embody the purpose
and doings of the press. With pleas
ure.
Bryant said: "The press is good or
evil, according to the character of those
who direct it. 1t is a mill that grinds
all that is put into its hopper Fill the
hopper with poisoned grain, and it will
grind it to meal, but there is death In
the bread"
James Parton said: THE newspaper
press is the peoples university. Half
the readers in Christendom read little
else"
Jefferson said: THE basis of our gov
ernment being the opinion Of the peo-
pie, the very first object should be to
keep that right, and were It left to me
to decide whether we should have
government without newspapers or
newspapers without a government 1
should not hesitate a moment to prefer
the latter
Cardinal Gibbons said: "The dread Of
exposure in the public press keeps many
man sticking close to the path Of rec
titude who otherwise would stray of
into the byways of graft" - Chicago
journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
PAGE TWO.
SEEKING THE MURDERER.
Hsouis Avenel, Who Passed Through
PendIeton. Mourns His Comradc.

ANuut0AbNs his NNilEb0tCA
Three months ago two jolly buoy
ant French newspaper men, Louis
Avenel and Gustave Laurent Of Mon
Sreal, Canada, were in Pendleton for
a week, on a tour of the world on
foot
They We're extremely cordial and
intelligent and made many friends
here, While travelling together in
northern California, they were at
tackled by robbers and Laurent was
killed, Avenel declares that he will
spend his life in California to find
the murderer and the San Francisco
Cal Of January 4, gives the following
account OF his efforts in that city:
Louis Avenel, French newspaper
man and globe trotter. called at police
headquarters yesterday morning with
a clipping from a local paper con-
tanning photograph of James Welch
alias Donald Walsh, one of the three
men arrested on Sunday morning for
holding up Marcelin GAUGE, saloon
keeper, S2S Fourth street. Avenel
said he believed Welch was the rob-
ber who shot and killed his companion
-Gustave Laurent-near Redding. in
the early morning of October 81.
Avenel and Laurent had met at
Portland and had decided to work
their way to this city. They were on
a car Of a freight train and. after the
car was about four miles from Red
ding, two men climbed on the car
and ordered them to throw up their
hands. Laurent had a revolver and
he fired a shot at the two robbers.
One of them fired three or four shots
at laurent. hitting him. and he died
in about two hours. After firing the
shots the two robbers jumped from
the moving train and escaped.
Avenel swore that he would hunt
down the murderer of his companion
and he has been devoting the last two
months to that purpose. He was
taken to the city prison by Detective
coleman, who was accompanied by
Interpreter Aguirre. Avenel wanted
Aguirre to ask Welch if he had a
quarrel with a woman in Redding the
day after the murder and If he replied
in the affirmative he would be the
man.
The question was asked Welch, but
ne said he never had a quarrel with
any woman in Redding. Avenel then
had look at him and said he close
ly resembled the man who shot his
friend. He said he would lay the
matter before the French consul here,
which he did. He promised to return
10 headquarters, but failed to do so.
Welch said he had been working in
a lumber camp at Millwood Shasta
county, for some months and left last
July. coming to this city. He could.
he said, easily prove an alibi and did
not worry about Aveners allegation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
TORTOISE SHELL.
The Best Imitation Of 1t Il Made Of
CelIulOid.

CellulOtd.
"Celluloid makes the best imitation
Of tortoise SHE'LL" says manufacturer.
1T has the requisite hardness and lus-
ter and approXimates so closely to the
real shell that, although 1 have han
died both products many years, can
not always tell one from another at a
glance. or course can do so by
making close inspection. The ability
to distinguish shell from celluloid by
the appearance can only be acquired
by years of experience in handling
both.
The principal way in which cellu-
loid Is revealed is in its susceptibility
to the influence of heat. Hold a eel
lulold comb in your hand and the heat
of the body will cause the teeth, after
Il few moments, to give n trine, and
there is not the elasticity in springing
back that you will observe in real
shell. Tortoise shell will not bend un-
less subjected to heat ut the boiling
point. There is, of course, great diff.
ference in the celluloid employed in
manufacturing combs, and some of the
combs that are put out under that
name are not entitled to the designa-
ton. Even when the celluloid is of the
highest grade it then should be season.
ed from three to twelve months in or
der that there may be no danger OF 1t
shrinking. Jewellers Circular.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
THE "LosT ARTS"
They Are Not So Much Lost as They
Are Discarded.

Are Discarded.
''Not so many years ago 1t was quite
commonly asserted that modern work
men could not quarry, or. having quar-
ried, could not handle stones as large
as the monoliths of Egypt" says a sci
enlist ''and the writer has heard pub
lie speaker OF note assert that it would
be impossible to handle, with modern
implements, such large stones as were
used in the pyramids or to join them
as perfectly as they are Joined there.
Yet, when occasion arose, larger stones
than any Of these were Quarried in
Maine, and some Of the larger mono
liths themselves were transported not
only to sea, but across it and erected in
England, France and America.
There are individuals today who
might if they chose cause the tranSpor.
tation to and erection in this country
of the largest pyramids or build new
ones ten times larger and more dur
able. Pyramids are not being general
ly built nowadays because they are not
III Inc WIN tllt lLtuu III luOutTu dIuDl-
ton, that's all.
1T is very doubtful if Damascus
blade would stand half as severe
usage as a modern band saw blade or
even as much as the spring of a forty
cent clock, While the ornamentation of
those wOndrous blades so far as the
mechanical execution is concerned, can
be excelled by apprentices and anna
tours of today.'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
STATUS OF KITTrrAs SCHEME.
Believed That Lack of Funds VIII
Operate Against Project.

The Post-Intelligencer has a spe-
cial dispatch from Washington which
reads as follows:
In view of the recent telegram from
Ellensburg citizens urging the adop-
ton of an irrigation project for Kitti-
'tss county, the following official state
meut of the present status of the pro-
ject was obtained at the reclamation
service today:
During the last quarter reconnois-
sance surveys were completed to de-
termine the feasibility of various new
lines at different levels, and in addi-
ton to this more careful examination
was made of the high line canal pre-
viously considered. These surveys in
dicated that from 10000 to $4,000
acres might be irrigated, depending on
the line adopted.
A preliminary report and estimate
was preferred, and on October 81 was
reviewed by a board of engineers,
which recommended that this sub
project receive due consideration when
funds for its construction became
available.
"Other than stream and ditch gaug-
ting no further work is contemplated
,1uring the coming quarter"
1t is believed here that lack of funds
Win operate against the Kittitas pro-
ject for some time to come.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
PANTS AND VESTS.
The Difference Between Them and
Trousers and Waistcoats.


Trousers and Waistcoats.
Why do the trade journals ignore the
word pants" and what Is tie differ
ence between ''trowsers" and ''trou-
sers" and between vest and waist
coat" asks correspondent of the
Clothier and Furnisher.
Pants" is an abbreviation Of pan
taloons," word foisted upon us by
the French, though possibly derived
from the Italian ''pantaleon," which,
according to the poet Byron, has an III
defined connection with the lion of St.
Marks, in Venice. "Trowsers" is old
English modernized into trousers -
which is the proper spelling Vest"
is an abbreviation of "vestment" An
other poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
traces it to Londoners in his line which
says:
The dangerous waistcoat, called by cock
neys west"
Genteel usage declares pants" to be
vulgar, though it and "pdntalOons" and
"vest" have their place u trade and 80
receive recognition Weend the matter
with another quotation from Holmes:
The thing named pants in certain docu-
ments,
A word not madls' for gentlemen. but
gents"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

There were bargain sales even when
this country WIS in its early youth,
but most Of the bargains offered were
choice lots of slaves to be disposed Of
at the old slave mart that stood ut the
foot Of Wall street. In the New York
Gazette OF Dee. "a. 1857. one Of the
large slave holders makes this an
nouncement:
German Slaves For Sale.-To be t.S-
posed OF, three German servants. one q
baker By trade. one a butcher and the
other a laberer. They are industrious.
good meig whose honesty has been tried,
and they may be had on reasonahAe
terms. Inquire OF the printer hereof.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

ITO stroll about the LondGn streets"
says Harper's Weekly. lis a pastime;
In Paris it is also an education. hard
ly understand how an Engiishman
after a walk down the Avenue de
fOpera or the Boulevard des Italiens
can bear to even glance at Bond
street jewelers.. To see what the
French are doing in Jewel work Of ev-
cry kind is to make one feel that Lon
don is not merely generation behind,
but could not in hundred centuries
catch up.r
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
GENERAL NEWS.

The demands of the striking print
ers for eight hours and closed shop
have been granted by Funk 81 Wag-
nails, publishers, of New York.
In a decision handed down lately
the Kansas state supreme court held
that murderer could inherit the
property of his victim under the exist
ing laws of the state.
Fifty miles OF Rock Island track
are snow-clogged near Carriozzo, in
Texas. Five rotary snow plows and
hundreds of men are at work. Trains
are making 700-mile detour in con-
sequence of the blockade.
Sick and discouraged, Aloysius Jae-
ger attempted suicide at San Fran
cisco by shooting himself in the head
While expecting to die he confessed
to robbing the American Express Co.
at Sioux City, II years ago of $1,000.
Nineteen persons met violent deaths
in Chicago during the "a hours end
ing at midnight, January 6. This list
comprises four murders, seven sui
Among the suicides were two men
who took the lives of the women they
professed to love.
The union musicians of Ohio are
raising row about the employment
by the National Guard of United
States army bands to march in the
Governor Pattison inaugural parade.
They do not object to such bands
marching with federal troops, but
merely to their being employed with
state troops when union bands need
the employment.
The last vessel to bring a cargo
of African slaves to this country, ac-
cording to Colonel William Young
blood of Alabama, reached the coast
of Georgia in 1860. 1t brought be-
tween 500 and 600 negroes and pro-
ceded up the Savannah river to Aug
usta where the auction was held
The slaves sold at prices varying from
$500 to $500 each.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
No Middle Ground.

Tho proprietor Of the dry goods store
had proposed to the milliner who
owned the establishment across the
way.
But. Mr. Wrappemup,' she said,
TIN mt sure that like you wssl
enough to marry you. Let US be mere
ly friends, rs heretofore"
I'VE can't, Miss Wribbens," he IN
swered through his set teeth. There
Is ne Friendship in trade. You win like
me we'll enough to marry me or IN add
q millinery department to my stockr-
Chicago Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
ON DUTCH WATERS.
Journey Along q Canal and the
Scenery 1t Presents.

Scenery IL Presents.
'T can think of no more reposefuf
holiday" says a writer, than to step
on board of one of those bargeS
wedged together in a Rotterdam canal
and, never lifting a finger to alter the
natural course of events-to accelerate
or divert-be carried by it to, say,
Harlingen, in Friesland between the
meadows, under the noses of great
black and white cows, past herons fish
ing in the rushes, through little villages
with dazzling milk cans being secured
on the banks and the good wives wash
ing and the saturnine smokers in black
velvet slippers passing the time Of day,
through big towns, by rows of somber
houses seen through Il delicate screen
OF leaves, under low bridges crowded
with children, through narrow locks,
ever moving, moving, slowly and sure
ly, sometimes sailing, sometimes being
towed, with the wide Dutch sky over
head and the plovers crying in it, and
the clean west wind driving the wind
mills, and everything Just as it was in
Rembrandt's day and just as it will be
500 years hence"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
..Cocoaine which duIls the nerves

Cocaine which dulls the nerves
never yet cured Nasal Catarrh. The
heavy feeling in the forehead, the
stuffed up sensation and the watery
discharge from eyes and nose, along
with all the other miseries attending
the disease, are put to rout by Ely's
Cream Balm. Smell, taste and hear
iug are restored. breathing is normal.
Until you try this remedy. you can
form no idea Of the good 1t will do
you. Is applied directly to the sore
spot All druggists, soc. Mailed by
Ely Bros, 5s Warren Street, New
York
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
NJ. i, o,.,tt,, q, s.,.,n,.

"How should we get married II there
were no London season. asked the
debutante.
"Some Of you would get married II
you were bricked up in an ogre's cas-
de and had to be rescued" said the
American millionaire. And ten sea-
sous wouldn't marry the rest."-Lon-
don B0udoir.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
NORTHWEST NEWS.

The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Co.
(silver-lead) at Wardner, Idaho, paid
in dividends during 1905 $5,435, 900;
and total dividends 10 date of $5,706,-
900.
One of the important measures be-
fore the Dominion parliament at the
session about to convene, is q propo-
sition to bridge Seymour narrows and
thus connect Vancouver island with
the mainland.
At Post Falls, Idaho, Sheriff Doust
confiscated three slot machines, broke
them in pieces with an ak and then
burned them in the street. The net
cash found in the three machines,
S37.S5, goes to the scFnsoI fund.
Vernon Foster, collector foV the
telephone company at Walla WaFIa,
was held up at the marble works in
the dark, by a man with a gum. who
went through his clothes and got a
watch and $3.50 cash. He overlooked
S.
Three thousand five hundred bnTes
Of jute have been received art the
Walla WaIIa penitentiary from Cal
cutta. Three hundred men viii be
employed in the jute mill, and the
output is expected to be 100000
grain sacks
The following is the record Of four
grade Jersey COWS owned by IT. w.
Eldred of ElIensburg, Wash, during
the year 1905; Milk, 24,f5g pounds;
butter, 1892 pounds. Gross income,
S35S.61; cost of feed, $tS5.27; net in
come per COW, $43.32. Skim milk and
calves not figured in.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

The labor unions and socialists will
hold a Joint convention at Seattle jan
uary 20, to nominate city ticket. 1t
is probable that George Cotterill, a
civil engineer, will be the candidate
for mayor. The immediate Issue Is
municipal ownership. The only op-
position will be straight republican.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

A message from Cascades says the
steamer George w. Simons, which
struck a rock and was beached Thurs
day evening, Is still in the same con-
dition, a short distance below the
rapids. A wrecking boat has been
sent up to work on her.--rhe Dulles
Chronicle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
Powerful Helps.

'I have given up smoking"
"Why, you tried before you were
married to give It up, and you
couldn't"
81 had no wife and mother-in-law to
nelp me then."-Houston Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

The circular of the Transcontinen-
tai Freight committee is more In the
nature Of a recommendation than an
order, but there Is every probability,
1t Is said, that all the railroads will ac-
cept.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
California Prune waters.

Purely vegetable. they are natures
product and should be in every house,
hold. They cure constipation ana all
disorders of the stomach. liver ana
SoveIs Taiiman q Co.. si3 Main st..
Pendiston, Oregon.
iea w. . Osata.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

Magistrate-so you admit having
been engaged In making counterfeit
money! Prisoner-Yes, your honor.
You see, the supply of the genuine ar
ticle Is so very short
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

Knicker-Strange they didn't name
the baby after its rich uncle. Booker
No. He looked at 1t and said he'd give
them $4,000 not to.-Harper's Basax.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

The Transcontinental Freight COM
mittee of the railroads has announced
a number of radical increases in the
minimum loading OF cars from Pacific
coast points to the east. The changes
are "a follows:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

'f you knew the facts abon,
Schilling's Best, you aouldn t
bother with anything else in
these six lines at all
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
Crest Arheme.

tie makes love to summer girls IN
the winter time and to winter girls In
the summer"
whats the dear
Thinks they come a little cheaper
when they're out Of season."-Cleve-
land Leader.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08
Cutting.

Miss Keenly has an awfuily sharp
tongue, hasn't sheT"
IT should say so! She's cut most Of
her friends of her list with It."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-08

The real Christian is OF the heart,
not the purse.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-05-10
Commissioners Notice.
an. urtn On VnnuNyn uFTIEEUnTE

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Hon Probate Court for the district ~ hafuorus
commissioners to receive, examine and ADJUST al
claims and demands Of an persons against the
estate Of Lorenzo Whecl0ck late Of Barnard,
in said district deceased, and all claims eNhib-
tied IN Offset thereto hereby give notice that
We will meet for the purposes aforesaid az INC
Wheei0ck on the 18th day q May
next and the 18th day of October next, from
10 O'Clock a. m. until O'Clock p. m, on said
davs and that six months from the 18th DAY 81
Anril A d. 1900 Is the time limited BY
said Court for said creditors 20 present their
claims 10 Us for examination and allowance.
Dated al Barnard, this 18th day Of Aprhs
A. u. 1906 iiop
PETER y. RILEY tc,np,fs1 toners
GEORGE n. KELLY,
Jerome Morgan, Admir-
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commIssloners' Notlee.


The undersigned, having been appointed by tbs
Honorable Probate Court for the District Of Hart
ford. Commissioners, 90 receive, examine ana
adjust an claims and demands of all persons
against the estate Of q. W. Angel, late %
Rochester in said District, deceased, and All
claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
notice that We viii meet for the purposes aiore-
said, at f. H. Edgerton's Office
In said Rochester the 18TH
day Of MAY next and the 2sth day Of Septem-
Der next, from O'Clock p. m. until o'clock
u. m, Of said days, and that six months iron
the ain day of April, A. d. 1906 Is the tine
limited hv said Court for said creditors 70 pre-
sent their claims TO US for examination and allow
ance .
Dated at Rochester, this 12th day q April.
A. ID. 1906. lVu
=. u. AUSTIN tComn,Is.ioner.
r. L. MARTIN.
n Edgerton, Admir-.
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commIssioners' Notice.

The undersigned. having been appointedb by mo
Honorable Probate Court Tor the District pi Hart
ford commissioners 60 receive. examine ana
adiust an claims and demands % al persons
arainststhe estate of Norman 7. whitney late OF
fhe state ~ ca iIornia leaving estate
in aid District deceased, and all
claims exhibited In offset thereto, hereby give
notice that We will meet for the purposes
aforesaid az the Office Of r. u kdgerton m salu
2qth day 81 September next, from O'Clock y.
m until 4 O'Clock p. M, ot said GAYS, aut
that six months from the 3lst day u March =
ID 1906 is the time limited by said Court Tor
said creditors 10 present their claims 70 us for
examination and allowance.
> dated al Rochester. this 9Th day u April.
A. n. 1906. lto9
r. " EDGERroN, commissioner
O. C. HUBBARD
Geo l. Raker. Admir-.
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Commissioners Notice.
ESTATE or MELISSA WOODBURY..

The undersigned. having been appointed by tho
Honorable Probate Court, for the District -
Hartford, Commissioners 60 receive, examine ahu
a,fiust aid claims and demands 81 az persons
against the estate 81 Melissa Woodbury. late OF
Rethel IN said District, deceased, and all claims
notice that we will meet for the purposes
sforeeaid az Abbott Cady =
sore In Bethel on the 18th day 81
Nav 1893 and the 15th day uf August, 1895.
from o'clock d m. until 4o'clock .. M, on
each ~ said DAYS. aud that six months frum the
iafh ,iav III March ID 1909 g. the time limited by
aid Court for said creditors 90 present.
their claims to u Tor examination and allow e
auce.
dated at Bethel, VI this ltth day q
April A. d. 1906.
" J. FLINT r.ur,fssfouers
ROBERT NOBLE,
Lee Cady, Admir-. l'W