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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

What is perhaps the most ghoul-
ish and semi-barbaric rite ever per-
formed in Umatilla county has just
been carried out by gang of Greeks
employed on the o. r. G. N. grade
work near this city.
As is well known about half of the
Greeks and Sicilians employed in the
United States are pagans and prac-
tice the old pagan rites which have
been in vogue in parts of southern
Europe for many centuries. One of
these rites forbids the Greek to eat
flesh which was killed by person
not of their belief, and consequently
the meat purchased by this peculiar
cult is all live meat and includes
sheep and foul, principally
A sheep was made the victim of
their pagan rites near this city re-
Gently and for ghoulish cruelty and
ignorance its slaughter perhaps sur
passes anything which has ever come
to the notice of the readers of the
East Oregonian.
A live sheep was purchased by the
Greeks and taken to their cook car
where 1t was hog tied" that Is, its
four legs were tied together closely
and the animal was hung up to the
roof of the car by a stick thrust
under its tied legs.
There 1t was allowed to hang, head
down, for three or four days until it
died from the ordeal. Each day the
Greek cook or learer OF the gang,
would go through a performance Of
killing the suffering animal. A long
knife would be sharpened, the cook
would roll up his sleeves and every
detail of the slaughter would be per-
formed. excepting the act of killing
the sheep.
Finally when it was seen that the
animal was dying the gang assembled
around the sheep, once more the knife
was sharpened and with a flourish
the throat of the helpless animal was
cut as its life was passing away from
starvation and punishment.
In explanation the leader of this
gang said the sleeps flesh was more
palatable if it was allowed to die in
this way and that it was a custom In
their home in Greece to slaughter all
sheep in this manner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

the market would open at a lower
figure than the former price, though
some of the buyers predict that
wheat will again sell for rs to 7s
cents.
According to Mr.. Moore, the grain
companies are now forced to pay for
exchange, which they previously got
for nothing. This he says will make
a difference Of about two cents per
tushei in wheat quotations.
1t was estimated prior to the be
ginning Of the holidays that three
foul s Of the wheat OF the county
had passed out Of the growers
hands, though much Of It had not
been delivered or paid for.
Should the market open at anything
like its former strength and thus give
farmers who have not sold an oppo?-
tunity tc do so the local business
situation would be greatly benefited
thereby.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

That the local wheat market will
soon be in operation again is now
promised by the grain company rep
resentatives who have offices here,
though they do not say just when
they will resume buying.
"Some wheat is now being bought
by the smaller mill companies and
all indications are that buying will
be commenced again soon," said
Will Moore, representative Of the Pa
eific Coast Elevator company today.
The wheat that has been bought
lately is said to have sold for 70
cents. This is about five or six cents
lower than the ruling price for club
when the market closed. However,
1t has been generally anticipated that
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
RINK WAS CROWDED.
Masquerade Night Proved Popular
Prizes for Best Characters.

For the masquerade skating car
nival at the Ireland Rink last evening
that popular amusement place was
filled as it has never been before and
none were disappointed with the af-
fair.
During the early part of the even
ing the rink floor was taken by the
masked skaters and many startling
and unique costumes were displayed
The first prize for the best mems
costume was taken by Walter Eg'
gerth, while Miss Ruth Gibson carried
off the honors in the shape Of the
lady's prize. She was attired as an
Indian princess.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Twenty People Transferred.

Twenty people transferred this
morning from the main line of the
o. R. & N. to the Spokane branch at
this place. Most of the number were
homeseekers who had been unable
to leave home during the colonist
movement of September and October,
but who are determined to come to
the west to investigate. They were
all people of excellent appearance,
including men, women and children
and were destined for Spokane, Pull
man and Moscow, principally.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Oregon Apples to Washington, d. G.

j. n. Teal the well known attor-
ney and capitalist OF Portland, pass
ed through last evening over the o..
r. & n. to Washington, d. c., where
he goes to attend the session OF the
Rivers and Harbors congress which
will be held there this month. He is
taking with him, as an advertise
ment OF oregon 20 boxes OF choice
oregon apples to distribute to the
delegates at the congress- DIR. n. G..
Blalock OF Walla Walla, expects to
join Mr.. Teal at Chicago and go with
him from there to Washington.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Frey, former
ly of this city but who have been at
Victoria, B. c., for the past six
months, have moved from that city
to $50 Seymour street, Vancouver, B.
c., where they will reside during the
winter. They are very well pleased
with British Columbia and while
they are largely interested in Pendle-
ton and Umatilla yet, they will per-
haps make their home at Vancouver
for some time,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

town. The ball will be given to raise
money for the firemen's relief fund,
which is to be used In payment Of the
expenses OF members OF the depart
ment who become injured in the dis
charge of duty.
The ball will be given under the
auspices of the entire fire department
but hose company No. will have
charge of the arrangements. The bali
room will be decorated appropriate
ly and a firemen's lunch will be
served in the banquet room.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
ATTENDANCE INCREASES.
Lively Interest Manifested in Pendle-
ton Business College.

At the Pendleton business college
the attendance and general interest
is much greater than ever before since
the school was started. According
to Prof c. w. Steele, principal of the
institution, the enrolment now is Sc
per cent larger than it was a year
ago, although good record was made
last season.
Several days ago a boys and agirls
basketball teams were formed by the
students and an effort will be made
to get some games with other teams
here during the winter. In the young
mems team there are four players all
over six feet in height.
Among the students recently enter
ing the school was ]. r. Beauchemin,
former baggageman at the depot.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Just 23.

He came often and early and stay
cd too late. Recently, as the CLOCK
struck II, she asked him IL he knew
how to take II ciphers and make 20
out Of them. He didn't, so she told
him to put down II ciphers in a
straight line, then to draw a perpen-
dicular line about half an inch long
down from the right side to the first,
fifth and tenth, and up from the
right side to the fourth, seventh and
eighth. He read the result-and van
ished.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
FIRE IN OUTFIT CAR.
Half the Town Attracted by Blaze
That Does Small damage.

About o'clock last evening fire
broke out in one of the outfit cars
standing on the o. r. & n. side track
along Bluff street and half the town
followed the central companies to
the scene. However, the fire was
soon gotten under control by the
company in that vicinity and the rest
of the department was not needed,
though two hose lines were quickly
gotten ready for work.
The construction train is the one
that had been in use on the Pilot
Rock branch and as the car which
caught fire was not in use the origin
remains mystery.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
j. S. LANDERS A MEMBER.
City Superintendent of PendletoT
Public Schools on State Debating
League Roll OF Officers.


League Roll OF Officers.
City superintendent ]. s. Landers
of Pendleton public schools, is a
member of the executive committee
of the Oregon High School Debating
league, which has just been organiz-
ed throughout the state.
The officers of the league are as
follows: E. T. Martlett principal
Salem high school, president; E. De-
Cou, professor mathematics, Univer-
sity of oregon, secretary-treasurer
State Superintendent ]. II. Ackerman;
President p. L. Campbell. state uni
versity; Miss Cornelia Marvin, Sec
retary OF the state library commits
sion; City Superintendent ]. S. Lam
ders, Pendleton; County Superintend-
ent w. c. Bryant Moro; Principal
e. T. Martlett, Salem, and Prof. f.
E. DeCou, Eugene, compose the ex-
ecutive committee.
A series of high school debates is
now being arranged for different
parts of the state and 1t will be
made a regular feature of school
work hereafter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Fine Birch Creek Fruit.

Fred Geinger, the well known
Birch creek farmer and fruit raiser
brought a load of fine apples to the
city today from his farm near Pilot
Rock. The apples are as fine look
ing and as we'll favored as any to be
found in Pendleton markets. Mr..
Geinger has a large orchard and is
making a success of diversified farm
ing, including dairying, fruit raising
and other lines.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Money I'm Mule Colts.

At the Walla Walla fair a man re-
fused 1925 for six months old mule
colt This looks like the farmers
ought to turn their attention to the
breeding of these fellows. They prob
ably would If they could all be mark
eted at this price at weaving time,
but while they will not all sell as
high as this bid, yet they are market
able and at prices ranging from $65
up.-Rural Spirit.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

entertainment at the First Presby-
terian church tonight, which promises
to be excellent in every way. A de-
lightful program of elocutionary and
musical numbers as published in the
East Oregonian last evening has been
arranged. Miss Crosson is talented
elocutionist and with the assistance
OF Mrs. Norton and Miss. Thompson,
will delight Pendleton people TINS
evening.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
LOST-A FREIGHT AGENT.
George ID. O'COnner of the Northern
Pacific, has Been Absent From the
City for Two Weeks.

Northern Pacific officials are
thinking of sending tracer" after
Travelling Freight Agent George d.
O'Conner, who left this city for east
ern Oregon two weeks ago and has
not been heard from since. Although
it is his regular custom to keep his
family posted on his movements such
has not been done in this case and
Mrs. O'Conner at Walla Walla does
not now know his whereabouts.
When he left here for Baker City
about two weeks ago, Mr.. O'Conner
expected to return to this city within
a few days, but so far has not return
ed to either Pendleton or Walla Walla
and officials do not know where he is
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
READY FOR HOLIDAY BUSINESS
Postoffice Has Better Window Facili-
ties for Mail Order and Registered
Letter Business.

NiuCE
Letter Business.
At the local postoffice an addition
al window has been installed at the
money order department for the pur-
pose of facilitating the handling of
money order and registered mail bus
mess. The change was made at this
time so as to make It easier to care
for the anticipated holiday business.
Under the requirements of the new
postal guide just issued, regular first
class rates will henceforth be charg-
ed on all souvenir postal cards that
are inclosed in envelopes, whether
transparent or otherwise. In the past
many have been sending cards in
envelopes with the corners cut away
thereby showing nothing to be con-
tained within aside from the card.
However, a two-cent stamp will be
required for such letters in the fu-
ture.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
Fine Rain All Over the County.

People from Helix, Pilot Rock,
Freewater and Umatilla, who are In
the city today, say they have fine
rain at all of these points and that
farmers and stockmen are rejoicing
over the great benefits to crops and
stock range.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

DR.. NJ. S. Kern OF this city. r. r.
Johnson Of Echo, Francis II. Bartlett
and oliver p. Morton of Hermlston,
were registered at the Oregon hotel
in Portland Thursday, while T. c.
Taylor, Robert Forster and II. c..
Bickers OF this city, were registered
at the Imperial.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
CANDIDATES OF ECHO.
City Election Promises Several Con-
tests for Office.

Echo, Nov. 2.-Following are the
candidates for the various city offices
that have filed their petitions for
nomination, with the city recorder,
for the coming city election to be
held December 2:
Mayor-Louis Scholl, jr.
Aldermen. six to be elected-Fred
T. George, Cloyd Oliver, NJ. H. Gill
lette. John Dorm, R. B. Stanfield, c.
]. Gulliford and E. E. Ripper.
City recorder-E, H. Brown and e.
H. Ware.
City treasurer-W. H. Boyd.
City Marshal-Wm. Hoggard, Tom
Burns and Geo. F. Green.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
GREEKS HOLD
PAGAN RITES
BARBARIC CEREMONY IN
KILLING A SHEEP.

Gang of o. II. & N. Greek LabOrers
Practice Old World Superstldons
in the Midst of Clvlllzation-Sheep
Was Tied to Roof of Outfit Car,
Where 1t Was Allowed to Hang,
Head Down, for Several Days Be-
fore Being Killed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
FIREMEN'S GRAND BALL.
Thanksgiving Eve for Benefit of the
Relief Fund

On Thanksgiving eve, November
81, Pendleton fire department will
give a grand ball in Eagles hall and
1t will be an affair that should be
attended by every loyal citizen of the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22

Sheriff T. D. Taylor left today for
Portland to secure Dan Hart, who
was recently released by the federal
court. He will be brought back mere
for trial in the circuit court
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
MILLS WILL SOON
BUY WHEAT AGAIN
LOCAL MARKET WILL,
BEGIN OPERATIONS

Some Wheat Already Being Bought
By Smaller Mills-Market Price Is
Several Cents Lower Than When
Market Closed, Club Bringing 20
Cents--Local Market VIII be Ben
efited by Opening at Former
Strength.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-22
The Reason

Mayme-Why don't you get mar
ried?
Sadie-I have too many engage
ments, dear.-Cleveland Leader.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
INTERST.4TE.

Knicker-were they on friendly terms?
 Bocker-No, cash.-New York Sun.
 "Clarice has an engagement ring"
 "Well?"
 Now know what is meant by the glad hand d"-Louisville Courier Jour- nal.
 Sweet Molly O." warbed the tenor
 What was her last name?p wonder ed the soprano.
 "Coddle," growled the basso,-Wash- ington Herald.
 You say you have subscribed to the Up-to-Dat Fashion Magazine for your wife?"
 Yes; she gets so much enoyment out of weeping over the gowns which T cannot afford to buy for her,"-- Houston Post.
 Do you believe in art for arts sake?' asked the transcendantalist.
 No" answered the materialist; "the mention of art for arts sake usually means a request to work hard with out gettlng pald TOT IL. WaShlngton Star.
 The Needy One.-'T say, old chap could you lend me five shillings for a day or two?"
 The Other One-"My dear fellow, the five bobs lend is out at present, and I've several names down for It when it comes back, '-The Tatler.
 Pedestrian-"What a horrible whine you have in asking for assistance. You ought to have your voice cultl- vated.N Tramp wot I wants money fer, boss. I'm t'inkin' uv havin' me voice irrigated. Chicago News
 T must not listen to you, MT. Pen nyaline, protested the blushing girl with eyes downcast. You are only
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
MORE LIFE IN SIGHT.

Judging from the decrease in the death-rate in Chicago and in the Canal Zone the time may come when "health authorities" will enable the meek and the smart to inherit the earth without first leaving 1t through the door of death Dr. Percy, president of the H.. linois Medical society, has taken a look ahead and seen something like that. He predicts that the time is coming when disease will be unknown. Medicine, he says, is advancing by seven-league boots. The day of radicalism in medi- cine is gone. Schools of medicine are gone Already the mortality has been reduced 40 per cent. and 10 to F years have been added to the expectancy of 45 years. The medicine of the future will not be humbled by isms. Cancers will be known only by descriptions in history. Typhoid and tuberculosis will be known as the Ignorance of the an- cients." We shall have human brain that has been born right for genera tions.
 A pleasing prospect indeed. and quite like that discerned by the Christian Scientists. Who can tell? People are living longer now than they used TO- and if they keep indefinitely gaining on it they will in time live forever. And perhaps when that time comes they will know enough to live without the greed and the wrong that damage and sad den the present-day living. If they don't they will get so tired that they will seek death in spite of the health authorities"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
The Coreys are reported happy ir their "princely home' near Paris.
4 BEA UrIFIED NEW HAVEN.

The widening of the railroad cut through the city of New Haven af- fords an unprecedented opportunity for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company and the city to make this more beautiful city than it has ever been. It is possible that the presence of the opportunity has been grasped by those in charge of the work If so the suggestion can do no harm, while if it has not been thought of 1t will be found to be in or- der.
 The railroad has during the few months it has been carrying on the work of cut construction educated this community in the beauty of concrete and in the larger uses to which it may be devoted. Tn the highest sense it's beauty is brought out in that part of the Kimberly avenue improvement where a concrete bridge gives the ef- feet of one of the famous Parisian bridges built by Napoleon. Had it been sentimentally continued up to the lift bridge itself an effect would have been gained which would have made that part of the city one of singular fascination to residents and strangers.
 If the bridges which are to cover the cut in the center of the city are made of concrete, gracefully proportioned and ornamented with electric lights, shining from graceful supports, the center of the city would be transform ed and the property to the east of them reclaimed and made as valuable as it was generation ago. The time is coming when New England is to resemble a beautiful park system from New York to Canada. New Haven has an opportunity now to make it's contribution to this ultimate achieve ment and it is an opportunity which should be seized upon enthusiastically by the two parties to the public im- provement.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
The Petitioners.

Pray sometimes for the succor that the
 mighty among us need; fray TOT the kindness needed by tha
 Tea and the ones who lead Fray when the day is ended and nra V
 when the day begins For the strength you need and the
 guidance and the pardoning of
 your sins But know that the Lord who watches
 OCT peasants and priests and Blesses In fullest measure the men who
 arc doing things Pray when the light is breaking for
 wisdom and strength and grace Pray when the day has ended and the
 stars gleam cold in space But the day was made for toiling; lei
 the monk in his closter pray; Out in the world is duty claiming your
 care by day; God in the great beginning wrought
 with Q mighty hand, Pausing not till Ills glory spread over
 sea and land. They are the lost who humble pray
 CTS when the sun is high, Turning away from duty, fearing to
 dare or try; Sitting in dark seelusion, selfshly ask
 ing there Glory in heaven as payment for the
 zeal that they show in prayer Over their heads the gleaming sword of
 destruction swings, While God in His mercy listens to the
 men who are doing things. -S. 10, Riser in Chicago Record Her aid
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27

the sincerity of the boards purpose in thus experimenting with a theory; 1t is a question of the soundness of that theory which Colonel Ullman goes at with the hammer of practical sense. A certificate from the Normal school ought to establish the fact that it's .possessor is competent to teach though perhaps not to teach as relia- bly, as others standing higher at an examination, but here in the schools of New Haven, of all places in Inc state, the trying out process should occur. It is the need of our schools which must determine the worthiness of teacher not his or her success in some other community. smaller in size and less exacting in methods.
 The attitude of Judge Wolfe and Colonel Ullman in the matters which are interesting them is exactly what We mean to make the attitude of The Journal and Courier all of the time. If We can not add to the sum and total of better understanding of affairs by patiently examining into them and printing the results of careful in- Vestigatlon, always with respect for the opposing views of others, our war rant for living is withdrawn. We live and learn by asking questions and by weighing our conclusions with those of our nelghbors. We have no patti ence with "the knocker" or the citizen who opposes for the fun of opposing or for what advertisement there is in 1t. but those who have serious con- yiction will have the greatest re- sPect and welcome to our columns, where they will find a field awaiting them so long as they observe the rules of dignified controversy. Free speech needs to be encouraged in the city of New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-27
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, one Dollar a Ycar.
4 TENTATIVE FRAMEW0Rk.

The school teachers of New Haven were duly soothed and sustained by the ukase which appeared in the Off, cial Messenger and told them how carefully and even cautiously their su- periors were looking out for their in- terests. They will be still more sooth- ed and sustained by the evidence that, careful and cautious as the superiors have been, they have made progress. It appears that the superiors have, with sharp pains and great labor, been able to make "a tentative framework D At the first hasty look, a tentative framework may seem to be something like the structures which are put up on the Green to hitch fireworks to, but it isn't like those. Tentative, = we find by careful and cautious re- search, means experimental, and our guess Is that the careful and cautious SUPSt AOA D OL lllO LSdSllSIS nave lHully succeeded in constructing a frame work on which they are going to hang salaries and then carefully and cauti- ously change them about until they look right. If we are wrong about this, we shall be glad to be corrected, but that is all we can make out of tentative" which is a real good word Of course the tentative framework is not going to be used to hang the teachers on for the 1eze majesty they have exhibited in asking for more pay. Once 1t might have been so used, but these are good, kind days.
 We congratulate the teachers on the fact that there is "a tentative frame work, and we put before their admir- ing eyes picture of their superiors jumping about before it and changing and adjusting salaries much as musical wonders jump about on the stage be- fore tentative musical frameworlxs and make queer and surprising changes. Here's hoping that the superiors will strike the right notes in their antics.