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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-02
ARMORY BILL IN
SUPREME COURT
THE DECISION WILL BE
RENDERED AUGUST =
Upon il Hangs the Fate of Pendle-
tons Hope to Have an ArmOry
Building-Should the Bill Be Sus-
tanned it Will Yet Be Necessary for
Local Capital to Purchase Suitable
Site.

on August the supreme court of
Oregon is to pass upon the question
of the validity of the referendum pc
tition against the armory bill Owing to
the fact that an early decision was
greatly desired the case has been ad-
vanced upon the supreme court calen-
dar and so will be disposed of with
in a week
Under the circumstances the de-
cision of the supreme court will prac-
tically settle the question as to wheth-
ell or not Pendleton will have an ar
mory building for the quartering of
company L. While in western Oregon
attending the recent rifle tournament
Captain Kern again discussed the
question of an armory with Adjutant
General FINER and other members of
the military board. He was practi-
cally assured that should the supreme
courts decision be favorable, the
board will order the erection of an
armory here. A building of brick,
concrete blocks. or stone is planned
and 1t will be such as to provide a
large drill room for the Pendleton
company, together with the necessary
officers mems and non-commis-
stoned officers rooms and store rooms.
1t would be of great benefit to the
company and would ensure a perma-
nent military organization for the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-02
Committee Works Fast.

In order to get the levee work un-
der way as soon as possible the levee
committee under the leadership Of
Councilman Swearingen. has been
utilizing time to the best possible ad-
vantage. Owing to the lateness Of
the special election, proceedings could
not be started as early as would have
been otherwise. Also. some little
time was lost while waiting for the
engineers report. However, IL the
contract can be let by the middle Of
this month the work should be fin
ished before there is any danger Of
high water. 1t is understood that
several concerns. among them New
port & Son. Contractor johnson and
Thomas Jacques, are preparing to bid
upon the work, and should all go well
actual work on the levee will be un-
der way very shortly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-02

and a concrete toe wall put in. II
the depth to bedrock is greater thap
10 feet the trench shall be excavated
10 feet deep and large blocks of
stone put in along the toe of the
levee. The outer face of the levee
shall be covered with riprap, and the
riprap and toe wall carried around on
a circle at the lower end to the back
Of the leyee,"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-02

1t never gets hot or cold enough to
affect the excellent bargains offered
by East Oregonian advertisers, and
the people who buy to save read
the evening paper.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
RETAINS HIS SEAT.
SENATE REFUSES TO ExPEL MR..
SMoOT, OF UTAH.
YEARS AGO ENDS IN VICTORY
FOR MORMON SENATOR.

Washington, d. C.-The four-year
contest against Reed Smoot be-
ing permitted to retain his seat as a
senator of the United States from
Utah was ended Wednesday by AZ of
his colleagues voting to sustain him,
as against % for the resolution to un-
seat him. Added to this there were
is senator's paired, making the actual.
standing on the resolution 81 votes
against it and 81 for it, Senator
Smoot did not vote and Senator Wet
more was absent and not paired.
The Smoot resolution was called
up soon after the senate convened
Every seat in the galleries was filleo
and during the actual voting the fiooY
of the senate was crowded by mem
bers of the house and employees OF
the senate. Seldom has there been a
proceeding. affecting the standing Of a
senator that has attracted such
marked attention. In the audience
were representative of numbr of
prominent women's organizations
which have been active in circulating
and having presented petitions of re-
monstrance against Mr.. Smoot.
There have been numerous
speeches made for and against Sena-
tor Smoot since the resolution to I'M
seat him was reported from the COM
mittee on privileges and elections,
just prior to the adjournment of con
gress last year. Yesterday Senator'S
Dubois, Hansborough, Newlands,
Bacon and Burrows, the latter chair
man of The committee, spoke against
Mr.. Smoot, while Senators Beveridge,
Dolliver and Foraker spoke in his sup.
port.
Although it was a foregone conclu-
sion that the resolution would fail and
thus end the long fight against the
Utah senator, the roll call contained
some surprises. OF the AZ votes in
favor of Mr.. Smoot, three were cast
by democrats. They were Messrs.
Blackburn, Clark, of Montana, and
Daniel. Senator Teller was paired in
favor of Mr.. Smoot. OF the % votes
against Mr.. Smoot nine were republi-
cans. They were Messrs. Burrows,
Clapp, Dupont, Hale, Hansborough,
Hemenway, Kittredge, La Toilette
and Smith
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
What's the User

Mark Twain, after lifetime
through which he has cheered and
amused his countrymen, seems grow
ing pessimistic in his age. Or is this
wall, from the North American Re-
view, merely the record of one of
those moments of reaction to which
all humorists are subject: "A myriad
OF men are born, they labor and sweat
and struggle for bread; they squabble
and scold and fight; they scramble
for little mean advantages over each
other; age creeps upon them; infirmi-
ties follow; shames and humilations
bring down their prides and their
vanities; those they love are taken
from them and the joy of life is
turned to aching grief. The burden
of pain, care, misery, grows heavier
dead, pride is defied vanity is dead;
longing for release is in their place
1t comes at last-the only imprisoned
gift earth ever had for them-and
they vanish from a world where they
were of no consequence; where they
achieved nothing; where they were
mistake and a failure and fool
ishness; where they have left no sign
that they have existed-a world
which will lament them day and
forget them forever Then another
myriad takes their place, and copies
all they did, and goes along the same
profitless road, and vanishes as they
vanish-to make room for another,
and another, and million other my
riads to follow the same arid path
through the same desert, and accom-
plish what the first myriad, and all
the myriads that came after it, ac-
mplished-nothing.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST.
A French Man-of-War Ran Into and
Sank an American Steamer.

New Orleans, Lain hazy wealth
er, the French cruiser Kleber
last night rammed and sank the
American fruit steamer Hugoma in
the Mississippi river just off New Or
leans. Capt. Lewis, of the Hugoma,
said that seven Japanese coal pass
ers and tiremen were drowned. James
O'Neal, of New York, suffered a
broken leg from the impact.
The Kleber, just arriving from Ha-
vana, was rounding a sharp turn and
the Hugoma, drifting with the six-mile
current, turned directly into the man.
of-wars path. Capt. Lewis says that
his signal was mistaken by the war
ship. The latter struck the fruit ship
amidships on the port side, nearly cut
ting the vessel in twain and within
five minutes the Hugoma plunged to
the bottom in more than 100 feet of
water.
Some of the crew scrambled upon
the bows of the cruiser before the lat
ter backed free, while others lowered
boats and one or two jumped into the
river. The launching of boats was
extremely difficult, for when the
ships struck, the Hugoma rolled far
to starboard, remaining there until
the cruiser backed when the fruit
ship Immediately listed far to port
and began to go down.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
JEROME DELVES DEEP.
His Cross-examination of Harry
Thaw's Wife Is Merciless.

New York. - Under the stress
of cross-examination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave nc
quarter, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
broke down upon the witness stand
Thursday. With binding tears burn
ing their way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to Grim.
son, she admitted that after her first
experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
for several months. But this was not
all. There were other confessions
damaging to her character.
Mrs. Thaw admitted that in 1908
after the return from Europe, she
spent the night at Thaw's apartments
in New York and that for three weeks
he and she occupied connecting apart.
ments at the Grand hotel in this city.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid-
cred perhaps her most damaging
statement to the defendant when she
said he had showed her copies of
cablegrams that were being sent to
Stanford White from Europe asking
him to use his influence with a man
in London to prevent Mrs. Nesbit
from raising fuss" and interfering
with Evelyn continuing in the com.
pany of Thaw.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
FINANCE AND TRADE.
r. G. Dun G. Co.'s Weekly Review
Tells of Favorable Conditions.

New York;. G.. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade says:
Weather conditions have beer
favorable for trade and transporta
tion in most sections, but few ad
verse reports are still received ant
total transactions again felt the cur
failing influence of holiday. At the
large cities there is good attendance
of interior merchants, producing
much activity in jobbing circles, no
tably those dealing in dry goods, milli
merry and other distinctively spring
lines.
Industrial returns are uniformly en-
couraging, mills aid factories having
so much business in sight that no ma
chinery is idle except in cases where
fuel deliveries are unsatisfactory OF
the labor supply inadequate. Farm
staples are fairly steady in price.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
The Wonnnecker Party.

Once there was an old farmer who
lost his voice. AS he could not call
his hogs, he taught them to run to
the feed pen when he tapped on the
trough with a stick. One day the old
man turned his hogs out in the for
est, and every time the hogs heard d
woodpecker tapping on a tree they
would run to it, and this they kept up
till they finally ran themselves to
death That's just like the Demo
Gratis. Once they We're called to-
gether by Jeffersonian voice, but
the party lost it's voice ana played
the trick Of the old farmer. The
woodpecker politician tapped on the
tariff reform limb, and away the boys
ran like they would break their fool
necks; then tho free silver limb, and
so on until the voters are SO nearly
run to death that they couldn't trot
after a genuine issue if they had one.
Why not call them the woodpecker
party? AT any rate, they come as
near initiating the old farmers hogs
as anything we ever knew.--Mora-
vian Falls IN. CO Yellow JACKET.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
MADE FOR AMERICANS.
Our Tariff, Not Devised for Europe,
is Not Liked by Europeans.

Hon. Richard Bartholdt, in an ad-
dress to the Republicans of the First
ward, pointed out the great reason
why the Republican party will cling
to the protective tariff. while in
Europe last summer" says Mr.. Bar
tholdt, Il found that the people were
unanimously opposed to the Ameri-
can policy of protection 1t is a bad
thing for the Europeans, but a splen-
did thing for Americans. The Ameri-
can laborer is to-day receiving wages
three times greater than is paid to
his German brother, and twice as
much as to the laborer of England"
That is the reason why the Repub-
lican party, which created the tariff,
will defend it Europe does not like
the American tariff. But the Ameri-
will retain it. The fact that the
American laborer gets twice as much
wages as the British worker in the
same field, and three times as much
as the German laborer, furnishes a
complete vindication of the Republi-
can protective policy. The tariff is
largely responsible for the American
workers prominence among his fell
lows all over the world. Over 1,000,-
900 immigrants come to the United
States every year to share in the
prosperity which the Republican
party's tariff policy has won for the
country.
The tariff which the Republican
party has devised, and which it will
maintain, is for the United States
only No effort was made by the
| trainers of the tariff to please Eng
land France, Germany, or any other
old-woIld country. The interests Of
the American worker were the sole
concern of the Republican party in
creating the tariff. BY the American
worker is meant the entire body Of
the population, consumers as well as
producers. Nearly all Americans are
workers at some sort of employment,
All of them consume. Most of them
produce as well as consume. The in
terests of all Americans were kept in
view by the men who enacted the
Dngley tariff, as well as by the Re-
publicans who shaped all the other
protective measures back to the Nor.
rill tariff of 1861. These men legis.
lated for the United States. and not
for Europe. This is one of the differ.
ences between the Republican and
the Democratic parties. The Demo.
cratic tariff of 1894, the Wilson-Gor.
man tariff, was in the interest of Eu-
rope rather than that of the United
States. The same would be true of a
Democratic tariff which would be
framed to-day, or in 1908. The Repub.
lican idea of a tariff for Americans is
what the American people like best.
st Louis Globe-Democrat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Save the Trees,

Clifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau
of forestry of the department of agri-
culture, has asked the house commit
tee on agriculture to favor the appro-
priation of $5000,0OO for the use of
his bureau. This is a large sum of
money, and congress will be likely to
look into the matter carefully before
granting the request. Yet it must be
said that forestry has come to be a
very important branch of government
tai supervision, and the good results
that have followed stimulation of the
science of caring for trees cannot be
denied. Some figures cited in this
connection, says the Troy Times, in
dicate that the money would not be
wasted. The standing timber in the
national forest reserves is worth $780,
100000, and the whole property in
charge of the department and the bu-
reau aggregates in value $1,400, ,000,-
900. To properly protect these pos
sessions, saying nothing about the ex-
tension of forestry work, is no small
task. The interests to be guarded are
large, and doubtless congress will
take all the facts into due considera-
ton
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

Every year in the Rumai country,
India, marriage lottery-a sort of
sweethearts sweeps held. The
names of all the marriageable girls
and of the young men of the circle
who want to get married are written
on slips of paper and thrown into
separate earthern pots. From these
they are drawn against one another
by the local wise man. This simply
determines the fact that the Rumai
girl has come out and is ready to be
married, and the youth whose name is
drawn against hers thereby obtains a
particular letter of introduction, with
authority to make love Immediately
with what ardor and success he is
capable Of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
JEROME is BAFFLfD.
His Endeovors to Disconcert ThaW's
Wife in Her Testimony Fail.

New York. In continuing his
cross-eXamination of Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbt Thaw on Wednesday at the
trial of her husband, District Attorney
Jerome brought out the fact that in
1902 Stanford White deposited $3.50
with a New York trust company with
instructions that it should be paid to
the Nesbit girl at the rate of S25 a
week Mrs. Thaw frankly admitted
receiving a number of checks from
the trust company, but she would not
admit that there was a provision that
she should receive the money only
when out of employment. The prose
cutor spent nearly the entire after
noon in trying to make Mrs. Thaw
admit that this was true, but as often
and in as many ways as he put the
question to her, she gave the one an
swer: 81 don't remember"
Mrs. Thaw's inability to remember
a number of other things about which
Mr.. Jerome questioned her was by far
the most material element in the
cross-examination.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Different Times.

These are great days for wage
earners and their savings The New
York Herald of January tells of A.
600 prosperous ones crowding the
doors and corridors of the German
Savings bank in order to get their
money in during the heightened
hours which the book grants to de-
positors one night in each year, so
that savings put in prior to January
10 shall draw interest from January
l. The crush of eager money savers
was something extraordinary. We do
not believe there was any such crush
on the nights of January 7, 1895 or
1896. In those tariff revision times
money was scarce for deposit by
wage earners in savings banks. Saw
.Egs were needed to keep the wolf
from the door. They were taken out
not taken in. That is, they were
taken out when the depositors could
get them out. The 60-day notice rule
was very general? enforced. Ger.
tainly the times are very different
now
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
A CHICAGO TRAGEDY.
Wife of a MiIliontire Politician Muir
ders an Alleged BlackmaiIer.

Chicago, Ill.-Webster H. Guerin
alias Louis Fisher, proprietor OF
the Harrison Art Co, was on Thurs
day shot and killed in his office at La
Sale and Van Buren, streets by Mrs
Flora Mcdonald, wife of Michael c
Mcdonald, millionaire, who was foi
many years the democratic ''politica
boss" of Chicago.
The motive for the killing is not ex
actly known Mrs. Mcdonald became
hysterical and was unable TO make a
connected statement. From what she
has said, however, it is believed that
for some time Guerin had obtained
money from her by the threat of max
ing certain disclosures to her. nus
band
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

Graphophones were used to help the
stenographers during recent govern
ment inquiry in Chicago when the in
vestigators had received orders tc
forward to Washington a transcript OF
the testimony at the earliest possible
moment. The stenographers took their
notes in the ordinary way, and read
them to a graphophone. AS fast as
a cylinder was full, the machine was
turned over to a typewriter, who set
1t to repeating what the stenographe1
had spoken, and transcribed it or
paper Within 80 minutes after the
last witness had ceased speaking the
record of the hearing was about com
pleted, ready to be sent to the nationa
capital
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Five Trainmen are Killed.

Detroit Mich.-Five trainmen were
killed and two others injured
Thursday when an express train on
the Michigan Central railroad, west
bound, which left this city for Chicago
at 2:27 p. m., collided with an ice
train two miles west Of Ypsilanti
The express train was composed of
express and mail cars only.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Ohio Town Is Swept by Fire.

Chillicothe, o. - Fire Wednesday
night destroyed the business section
of cambridge, village 20 miles
southwest of here. The fire originat-
ed in livery stable and destroyed
the town hall, the postoffice and a
number of stores. Loss 100000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Congress-.

Washington.-On the Goth the SEN
ate by vote of az to % decided that
Reed Smoot, senator from Utah,
should retain his seat. The senate
passed the naval appropriation bill.
The river and harboT bill was passed.
The house passed the postofiice appro-
priation bill
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

Even the heroine who by waving her
red petticoat saved the fast express
from destruction has had to give up
her pass. Thus do the sins of the un-
lust fall upon the just
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Rrvce Arrives /, Washinntop

Washington, ID. C--Hon. James
Bryce, the new British ambassador tc
Washington, accompanied by Mrs
B,,.ce, arrived here Thursday.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

Ali Merzi, the new shah of Persia,
is described as man who possesses
an iron will. Also he has more step
mothers than any other ruler now ex-
tant
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Congress-.

Washington.-In the senate on the
21st the entire session was devoted tc
consideration of the agricultural ap
proprietion bill. The house spent the
day in debate on the sundry civil bill
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
Hughes Asks for keIsey,s Removal.

Albany, N. Y. = Gov. Hughes
has recommended to the sen.
ate the removal from Office of Otto
Kelsey, state superintendent of insur
nce, On the ground of unfitness foI
The pcSition,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28

The greatest consolation in your
dying hour will be the remembrance
of the truth you have told and the
good deeds you have done.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
LOB PRINTING.

The Job department of the Pass is complete
and affords facilities FOR doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law
PRINTING
No paper will be discontinued until arrear-
eges are paid, except at the option OF the pub
usher
Papers sent out of the county must be paid
Tor Ia advance
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
CANNON'SPLATFORM
e~EAkER OF THE HOUSE ON DUAL
TARIFF QUESTION.

He Would Begin with Minimum Duties
Adequately Protective to All Lines
of Production and Then Apply Max
imum Rates as Penalties for Unfair
Treatment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-28
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
Published Every Thursday.
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II. MULLIN, Editor
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