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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
FACTS VS.. ORATORY.

At least 25 more houses would now
be in course of construction in Pen
dleton, were it not for the exorbitant
price of lumber, which has been fixed,
not by local dealers, but by the lum-
ber trust OF the Pacific coast.
As the result of the trusts robbery,
carpenters. contractors, architects and
laborers are Idle, or are moving away
from PendletUn. And this in a state
having several hundred billion feet Of
saw timber and some of the largest
sawmills in the world.
Never before in the history of the
lumber business has it been possible
to produce lumber as cheaply as now.
Machinery does most of the work.
Wages are not as high is they were
Is years ago in oregon sawmills and
the exorbitant prices are simply the
result of the trusts and tariffs which
are permitted by the powers that be.
Never before in the history of the
country was the price of fuel coal as
high as it is now, although the cost
of producing it is being reduced every
year by means Of improved machin-
cry. The trust simply gouges the
people because it is permitted by law
to do 50. It is not the fault of the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
THE JEALOUS SALEMITES.

The Salem Journal, in commenting
on the informal meeting of the MEM
ters of the oregon legislature in this
city next Tuesday, says in vein of
sarcasm, that a meeting of the men,
bers should also be held at Hubbard
or Macleay in Marion county, to con-
slider the mumentous state issues from
one of those viewpoints.
The Journal is consumed by jeal-
ous> because eastern Oregon receives
the attention of the legislature 1t is
not enough for Salem to monopolize
Legislatures, state Institutions and Of
ficial headquarters, but she Would
monopolize public sentiment force all
public meetings there. hold all confer
ences and discuss all state issues with
in the charmed precincts of the
state capital.
1t will do the members good to get
out Of the atmosphere of Willamette
valley. 1t will do them good to feel
the keen inspiration of the eastern
Oregon atmosphere and rub against
the people of the sagebrush.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
FRISCO'S EARTH "FAULT."

The san Francisco TaniiN of tho
Press says of the remarkable fault
or crack of the San Francisco earth
quake:
Half a nile or so from the coast,
| crossed the line of the fault Com
ing out of the Pacific ocean in the
vicinity of Point Arena, 120 mile,
Moth of san Francisco, it runs south
along the coast for 225 miles, TO SAP
Juan. There it fades from view, yet
pu"sues its course, doubtless. many
other. hundreds of miles beneath tn
California desert.
Of its kind it is the most stupenlous
in history, exceeding by four times
the length of the fault of the great
japanese earthquake of 1871.
Sometimes a wide crevassc. some-
times sunken road between parallel
fissures again bumped into a line of
brown sod. it ploughs through green
valleys, cleaves forests, splits noun
tains-all with a sublime contempt of
topography. and impressing one with
n sense of the omnipotent energy be-
hind, of blind force of power immut-
able and absolutely indifferent to hu-
man hopes and fears.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
THE TARIFF AND ART.

After due deliberation, the treasury
department has decided not to con-
fiscate a GainsbOrough portrait which
a western man was importing, nor even
to increase the valuation 100 per cent;
but to increase it only so per cent
from $4,000 to s22.500. The dei
partment explains that its leniency in
this case was due to its desire to en-,
courage the importation Of valuable
works of art. Imagine the feelings
of Uncle Joseph Cannon when he
hears that
The import duty on works of art
is not for the purpose of protecting
anything. Leading American artists
almost to a man, are vehemently op-
posed to it. The league which has
been working assiduously for years to
have the duty removed has their
hearty sympathy and cooperation.
The duty Is not for the purpose OF
raising revenue. because no revenue
worth speaking of is derived there
from. It's sole important effect is tc
keep great works of art out of the
country. The orthodox stand-patters
upheld it just as firmly, however, as
though a large population were ir
danger of having its standard of livinl
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

The East Oregonian vividly recalls
bit of unconscious humOr which
was perpetrated uDon the Indian de-
partmcnt last spring by Umapine, the
we'll known Umatilla Indian. In die
-t9tirg letter to the department on
conditions on the Umatilla reserva-
tion, about the time that o. c. Ed
wards came to the Umatilla agency.
Umapine said to the Indian commits
sion: "If there is an honest agent in
the Indian service we would like to
vation." Poor, deluded. innocent old
siwash
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
WHITE AS A POINT or INTEREST

Franklin Matthews telegraph editor
of the New York Sun, tells of his first
meeting with William Allen White, of
the Emporia Gazette. Mr.. Matthews
was doing" the west for a monthly
magazine. Finding himself at Topeka,
Kan, one Sunday with nothing to do,
he decided to go down to Emporia to
meet the distinguished editor. He
found Mr.. White at home, and, after
telling him who he was, said that he
had come to Emporia to see the town.
WELL replied Mr.. White. ''thero
are just three things in town to see.
m one of them, and Mrs. Plumb's
rev house and Charley Cross Here
ford bull are the other two. You can
look me over and then wen go and
see wild Tom" and the town man
sion. saturday Evening Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

local dealer that coal prices are high,
The trust souges the local dealer as
well as the consumer.
There is a lot of difference between
cold facts and campaign oratory.
The facts are that while laboring
people are handling perhaps more
money than ever before, they are
compelled to pay out more for living
expenses than ever before. Because
OF the eNorbitant price of lumber.
rents uust naturally advance, Fuel
costs moro, oil is higher than for
years high, freight rates make an ad,
dHional cost on all the necessities of
lite, and trust made articles are ad.
vanced in price to keep time with the
merry song of prosperity.
Portland. san Francisco. Chicago.
spokane, Cleveland, Denver, Los An
geies, all have experienced strikes in
different trades this year-simply be-
cause wages paid would not meet the
living expenses and men were driven
to desperation. 1t is possible that la
boring people are not prosperiAg, even
in the midst Of general prosperity in
capltalistic lines. Facts are to be
found Oh the ground, among the peo-
pie, not in the clouds of campaign
oratory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
NO TAXES IN WISCONSIN.

No general state tax will be levied
in Wisconsin this year and even the
mill tax for schools will be cut in
half, says Madison dispatch. Pay
ments on war claims, together with
the increased taxes from corporations,
have put the state treasury H., such a
plethorlc condition that thcre IS now
more money than Is needed. Had 1t
not been for the work on the capitol
building 1t would have been feasible
to omit entirely the school tax.
Back taxes and the increased levies
from railroads have added $643,0 900
to the school fund now in treasury,
after meeting all the extraordinary ex-
penses of the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
TUE HALL OF FAME.

f. G. Ridgeman, of Everybody's
Magazine. wins cups In golf contests
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, is
an inveterate novel reader He always
has a pile of new books ut his elbow,
wherever he is.
william II. Taft, secretary of war
and at this writing provisional COVER
nor of Cuba, has begun to put on
flesh again and must resume his diet
William r.. Hearst. the democratic
and independence league candidate for
governor of New York is more thar
six feet tall and big proporJionateIy,
but he has a squeaky voice.
Timothy L. Woodruff. the chairman
of the republican state committee iH
New York, hasn't worn fancy waist
coat fer 10 years, but no cartoonist
ever draws him without one.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina
made $4,000 this summer lecturing
before various chautauqua assemblies,
lie gets from $3.50 to S400 n lecture
1t pays better than farming.
Charles +. Hughes, the republican
nominee for governor in New York,
goes to Switzerland every year and
lmibs mountains for six weeks. H.,
has done that every year for 1S years
Governor Higgins. of New York
who will retire from politics next
January, doesn't need to worry about
his future. He is worth S7,OoOGO0
which he made in groceries, in oil
leases and in copper mines.
Charles G. Bush, the New York
Worlds famous Carto0nist, had 2
stroke of paralysis some months ago.
Iy infinite labor he has taught him
self to draw ever under the conditions
imposed by his disease, and is still at
work.-Saturday Evening Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

The editor of the Tribune saws that
all of the croaklng about conditions
is done by fellows with oblque mem
tai angles, whatever that may mean.
This same "oblique mental angle
gang, ever croalling about conditions.
gave George f. Chamberlain 800 plu-
rality in 1902 and $500 plurality il
1906. The angles are evidently in
creasing in Oregon. 1t is a shame
that they are so oblique. of course.
They should be straighter, no doubt,
more perpendicular, as it were, and
support Binger Hermann, J. n. Will
hanson. Henry Meldrum. ct al Gf
these WORTHLESS stay ont of prison long
enough to run for office againD
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

reduced by competition with the pau
per labor of Gaiushorough, Rembrandt,
and Rubens--or as though II United
states old master trust had to earn
dividends on hundred million water
ed stock.
We do not know Just what insidious
peril Mr.. Cannon and his friends per.
ccive in art that they should be so
mveterately suspicious of it-unless
perhaps, ihry suh-consciously feel
that its serene, disinterested, enlight-
ened spirit laughs at thenl-The In
dependent.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

menced to take your
remedy l have been
steadily improving
until now | can safely
say | feel no more of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
GAINED
10 LBS. IN
WEIGHT.

than expected.
81 can now breathe with ease, and
also my cough is stopped. had it for
six months before took down with the
grip.
81 took no other medicine but Peruna
and 1t accomplished all. You told me
in your first letter that Peruna would
cure me and it has.
81 am mseventy-three years old'and can
attend to my work and business as
usualp
Mrs. Theone Mikkolson, Brigham
City, Utah, writes:
az wish to thank you for all the good
Peruna has done me. l am entirely free
from the cough which used to bother me
so much every winter
"My kidneys are also in good condi.
tion, and l feel l---''''-'-----'-'---''''I
stronger and better GiVtS
all over. For all these PE-RU'NA
/ give the credit to CREDIT.
your excellent medi- i-l-----------------.1
cine, Peruna. am pleased to recon-
mend it to everybody"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
MIR. S. D. Foss, ll6 S. f, 9th street,
1Vl Minneapolis, MINI, writes,

Il wish to congratulate you on your
medicine, Peruna. l have been a suf-
ferer with catarrh of the stomach for
over two wears, but since | have COM
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
A GOOD
WORD FOR
PERU Ma.

my old trouble, and as q matter of
course, will always have good word
Tor Peruna.
81 recommend 1t TO ali my friends"
Mrs, Magdalena Winkler, Route 4,
Westminster, Md. writes:
81 thank you very much for your ad-
vice. can safely say that Peruna and
Manalin have saved my life.
"When l wrote to you the first time,
asking your advice, my condition was
so poor that did not - .--,.' '--'--
expect to live through PRAISE
the winter but now / FOR
am perfectly healthy. PE-RU-NA.
cannot praise your t--.-----.--.--.--..---.!sl
medicine enough and recommend it 10
others"
r. T. MARYLAND, a well-known bust
ness man of Cincinnati, o.. writes from
y Wood burn AVE-. as follows:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27
The Woman
Who Writes

10 her friends will create fine i'm
ession-irrespective of her diction
If she uses "swell" stationery. Stop
to think. please, that good form" pa
per costs but !'ttle more here than
the very ordinary kind. Why not buy
the best when we sell that so cheap?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27


. The man who wins, Q, honor .
him well, .
. And give him the praise that's .
due, .
. But don't forget the other who .
. fell .
Fro even his dreams came .
true; .
. Yes. honor the man whose will .
prevailed. .
" no baftled despair and .
. doubt .
. But give one thought to the .
man who failed. .
. The fellow that's down and .
out. .
. Dennis Mccarthy. .
n . q q q a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-27

day, and have gained
ten pounds. l took
your Peruna accord
ing to directions, and
the result was moro
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-01
AND CHE LEFT HIM eAspIre.
Grass Widower on Summer Picnic Had
Something to Think About.


II don't believe men will ever get
broad-minded enough" said the little
widow, Ito allow women the same
privileges that they demand. For ex-
ample, the other night ] met a dapper
little fellow who was telling how he
and his wife were separated for the
summer. Some slight alteration. He
was going back to her in the fall, but
meantime he was going to have pic.
mic. The city and baby carriage and
a rubber plant for him in the fall; but
this summer! Well, never mind! He
had lovely girl with him and showed
her exaggerated attention.
Look here said to him, you
have the prettiest wife in town. What
do you suppose she is about this sum.
mer?'
she is at home behaving herself
like little woman, said he, decidedly,
just as she should do.
"'Well, anyway, casually re-
marked, just to be devilish, 4 saw her
the other night at party. In the
hilarity of the moment she arose and
turned double somersault.'
"Whew! 1t was worth the price Of
admission to see that dapper little fell
low foam at the mouth"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-01
TO SPEND HALF A MILLION.
Even Pea Factory VIII Be a Big
Benefit to that Community.

The pea canning factory which is
to be established at Even the com
ing year will be big benefit to the
agricultural interest OF the south
side Of Ontonagon county. A. X.
Barnes, who is successfully tilling
the soil in Mcmillan township, in a
letter 10 the Northwestern Farmer,
says.
The Albert Landreth Pea Canning
company, Of Manitowoc, Wis, has
purchased several pieces of land
which they have already begun to
clear. Next year they will raise
seed peas on this land. The follow
ing fall they expect to build and
equip factory at Even. The com
pany expects to spend half a million
dollars before they do any canning
at all. They have made start in
rich, new country, where the soil
and climate are especially adapted
to the raising of peas, and as they
have competent men at the head OF
their affairs, who have made the
business OF the Landreth company
the largest in the world, they will
no doubt be very successful in this
section. As the new industry pros
pers and expands, the farmers 10
this section expect to grow and
prosper with it. The new concern
is heartily welcomed. >
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-01
STONE is NATURAL BAROMETER.
Its Properties Accounted For in Scien-
tific Manner.


tifc Manner.
There Is a stone called "Semaknir,"
found in northern Finland in con-
siderable abundance, which rs a nat
ural barometer, foretelling probable
changes in the weather In dry, fine
weather the stone is of a dark gray
color notified with white spots, but
before approaching showers or thick
mists it blacsens all over, most con-
spicuously at the spaces which were
previously white, and gradually re-
turns to its former state as the wealth
er improves. Its prophetic warnings
are regarded by many as having a su
pernatural origin, but recent analy-
sis of the stone shows that there is
nothing whatever mysterious in its
actions. 1t is composed of ground
mass Of clay and fossilized organic
matter, with little rock salt and
inter scattered throughout in grains
and small patches. These salts alb
sorb the aerial moisture as it in
creases in amount, and dissolve in it,
forming black surface films, while
they regain their white color as the
drier atmosphere evaporates the
moisture from them.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-01
SEEM WISE

When you are earning money
week. --NoT TO SAVE portion Tor
the time when you may not be aoie
to earn weekly?
Situations are sometimes lost,
sickness often comes, so do oppor
tunities 10 better your position IN
life.
AT such times a Bank Book comes
handy.
One dollar or more will start or
increase your account at our Savings
Department where every dollar de-
posted earns 30 interest.
Write for booklet Banking BY
Mail, if you live out Of town its
yours for the asking.
Oar Deposits 1902, 046.00.
Marquette Natl Bank,
MARQUETTE, MICH.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
GIVES ESTIMATE
Of THE RESULTS
Chancellor Won BulOw Re-
views Accomplishments of
the Algeciras Conference
GERMANY is SATISFIED
Principle of Equal Privilege
for All Countries in
Morocco Is Maintained

BERLIN. April 4-Chancellor Won
Buiow. at the request Of the Associated
Press. today gave the following esti-
mate of the results OF the Algeciras
conference:
The principle Of equal privileges for all coun-
tries IN Morocco has been asserted and main
from the beginning. the one thing that Ger
man diplomacy strove for. We placed IL be-
yOnd our power 70 ask for anything for Ger
many that We did not ask for all countries.
50 powerful was this statement OF the prin-
eiple Of equal privileges that France. Great
Britain and all the countries admitted at the
opening Of the conference regards the open
door for trade. but the question arose, How
was the door 10 be held open? What guaran-
tees could be given that no one should after
ward step into the open door and block the
way1 Two guarantees only appeared adequate
to the German Government. namely. inter-
national control OF the Bank OF MOroc0o and
international supervision OF the police These
guarantees has been accepted by France and
all the other participating countries.
Prince Won Bulow continued:
While Germany has 0hsaine< those things
which she sought. FrazSA nGs obtained first.
recognition of her special -OSition as Deighbor
Of the Sultan by International legislation OF
her right maintain order adjacent 10 the
Algerian frontier a right which Germany
the state bank: and third. by having
trusted her the instruction OF the police in
company with spain and under International
supervision
Throughout this long controversy the Euro
pean powers have been aware that President
Roosevelt ready TO assist IN any proper
manner IN the effort for an agreement The
American Governments advice and attitude
Of the conference. Mr.. White a cen
ciliatory force
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
KING MAY HAVE To WALK
WITH CANE REST OF LIFE
Conflicting Reports Regarding Perma-
nency of Injury to Edwards
Ankle

LONDON. April 4.-RepOrts of the
Kings health during his continental
pleasure tour are quite favorable. He
uses a cane in walking and there seems
10 be little prospect that he will dis
card it at any time in the near future.
Belief in the permanency of his in
jury is not the same in all quarters
Undoubtedly the injury 10 his ankle
several months ago was more serious
than was at first believed, but the re-
ports that he will always be partly
crippled lacks adequate confirmation.
During the recent shooting season the
King was unable to follow the sport on
foot. doing all his shooting from an
automobile
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
CHINA Baking
RUSSIAN PLANS
Deadlock at Peking in the
Negotiations Relating to
Manchurian. Concessions
YELLOW NATION FIRM
Determinedly Opposing All
Attempts at Encroach-
ment Upon Its Territory

PEKING. April 4-The Russo-Chinese
negotiations appear TO have reached
dc adlock- At any rate, they are dragging
along slowly. Pokotiloff. the Russian
Minister to China, and Tong, the Chinese
Commissioner appointed to negotiate an
agreement with Russia regarding North
ern Manchuria, have conferred only two
or three times during the past month
Russia has the upper hand. because she
holds nearly all the privileges she con-
tends for. while demanding that China
officially grant them The Chinese, on
the contrary, are determined to withstand
all foreign encroachments Both parties
are trying to keep the details as secret
as was the case with the Chinese-Japan-
ese treaty
One bone of contention is believed TO
be the mining and other concessions
which the Tartar generals in Manchuria
gave 10 Russian corporations and which
Russia wants the Chinese Government to
ratify. The Chinese, however, insist thar
their Government never sanctioned these
concessions. and that, therefore. they are
invalid \
MOSCOW. April 4.-GeneraI Won Mack.
the Russian representative of the Red
Cross, has just returned here from Japan.
He declares that the Japanese are ac-
lively engaged in war preparations, and
he adds that IL Is evident that the enemy
in view is America. and that operations
are being planned against the Philippine
| Islands
ST PETERSBURG. April 4-GeneraI
Mistchenko, after long period OF service
with the army In the Far East, has de-
parted for ST. Petersburg. His latest ser
vice was in crushing the revolutionary
movement along the trans Siberian rail-
way east of Harbin.
VLADIvOSTOK. April At is reported
| that the Governor of Tsitsikhar has re-
| ceived from the Chinese Government per-
mission to construct a railroad from
| Tsftsikhar southwark to Onghin. whence
! ii is but a short distance TO Sinmintin-
| The Government is seeking TO interest
| Chinese capital IN the enterprise.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
DEMAND FOR SEATS FOR THE
KUBELIK CONCERTS Is BIG

The return concerts of Jan Kubelik,
the eminent young Bohemian violinist.
10 take place at the TivoIi Opera-house
Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock. and
Monday evening. at sis. bid fair to
draw big houses The enthusiasm he
created at his first series of reeitals in
this city was notable in the musical
history of San Francisco. and the de-
mand for seats for his farewell appear
ances is large. Since playing here he
has pleased the southern part OF the
State. and at his three concerts in Los
Angeles il was almost impossible to
obtain even standing room. The vir-
tuoso returns accompanied by his wife,
the Countess Szeky-SzeA. who Joined
him in Los Angeles.
Kubelik's programmes will be entire
" new and he will be assisted. as be-
fore, by Miss Agnes Gardner-Eyre, pi-
anist, and Ludwig Schwab. accompa-
mist Sunday afternoon he will play
Bruch's Concerto in G minor; the Rhap-
Soda Piemontese, by Sinigaglia: VIE
niawskfs Polonaise in A major: a Mel
ody of TschaikowSky; Paganini's Etude
in E major and Mel cor piu non mi
sento' by the same composer. Monday
evening his numbers will include Bach 3
Ciaccona: Tschaikowsky's Valse Scher-
20; Saint -Saens Introduction and Ron
do Capriccioso and Paganinfs l Palpiti
and Moto Perpetuo.
After the Tiyoli engagement kubelfk
makes his final bow in Oakland.