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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

and Mrs. W. ]. Stockman at their
home on Garfield stret last Saturday
evening, on their 10th or tin wedding
anniversary. A large number Of
friends gathered at the home with
presents of tin of every description.
The evening was pleasantly spent in
games, q delicious lunch being served
during the evening. At the close Of
the happy event a mock marriage
ceremony was performed for Mr.. and
Mrs. Stockman. About 80 friends
were present and 1t was most en-
! joyable event.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
City BREVITIES

All kinds of good, dry wood. See
Minis.
Private room and hoard, 313 South
Main street.
Wanted-County script bought at
this office.
Talking Machines given away at
The Wonder Store.
Special sale of hair goods at Mrs.
Camrbelrs millinery.
Houses and rooms, close in. for
rent. Apply John Vert.
Charles Lane & Son put In window
glass. Phone black 3071.
See MINIS for good. dry wood that
burns. Lots of It on hand.
Music hall, LaDow block. for rent
for dances. etc. Apply ohm Vert
Charles Lane & Son for paints and
wall papers. SO7 Vincent street.
Nice furnished housekeeping rooms
for rent. Inquire 3O2 Logan street.
Lost on street-Blue sweater. Find
.er return to Gray Bros grocery store.
Don't forget that the Wonder Store
carries a full line of popular priced
shoes.
Cerena s. Driscoll, voice, piano and
elooution. Studio GOA Thompson
street.
Mrs. Thompson, general stenogra.
pher and notary public, room 16, as
ISOLATION block
Lost-A bunch CT keys. Finder re-
turn to Logan Rem, at Demott's gro
Gerry Reward
For Rent-Four room house, $3.50
per month. Inquire Dan Kemler, al
Gray Bros grocery store.
Wanted--At once, coal sacks at
Potlatch Lumber company; will pay
highest market price for some.
When in Portland stop at the Hotel
Oregon. Rates 81 per day and up
ward. European plan. free bus.
23O acres summer fallow for rent
northwest of Pendleton. One and a
half miles from depot. Apply John
Vert.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

full electrical equipment have been
installed and a beautiful curtain is
expected to arrive from Spokane to-
morrow The seating capacity of the
theater will be aboue $50.
1t is the intention Of the managers
to give three shows each day, one in
the afternoon and two i'm the evening.
They are on the regular northwestern
vaudeville circuit and will give first
class performances. A complete
charge will be given twice "a week,
and nothing but refined and first
class vaudeville will be presented.
NJ. Comstook, one of the propretors,
is now experimenting the improve
mcnts in the new theator.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
SNOW PROTECTS WHEAT.
Farming Section Well Covered No
Danger of Freeze.

That the present cold weather is
having no bad effect thus far upon the
growing wheat is declared by those
familiar with the crop conditions.
According to b. b. Richards now tenn
porarily in charge of the Puget Sound
Warehouse company's office here. the
wheat section of the county is well
protected by the snow. Mr.. Richards
was recently over the country north of
Pendleton and in the vicinity of Athe-
ma. In that portion there is more
snow than here, and unless strong
winds should arise to blow it into
drifts, leaving the fields bare. there is
no danger from freeze at this time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Rabbit Drive Near WalIula.

On Sunday. January 20, big rabbit
drive will occur in the sand dunes
north of Wallula. Captain B. B.
Moorehead will be master of cere-
monies. A wire fence will inclose a
sink about three acres in extent, west
of Alfalfa, and into this inclosure the
bunnies will he driven and slaughter
ed. No guns are to be used, thus
avoiding any chance of accidents.
Everybody is invited. 1t is desired
that those who can will bring horses.
If you want to enjoy rare sport, come
to the rabbit drive Sunday, January
20, beginning at 10 a. m.-Wallula
Gateway,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Banner Carload of Cattle.

What is believed to be the banner
carload of beef cattle shipped out of
Pendleton this season was sent out by
Nate Rains over the w. & C. R. Sat-
urdsy evening to Frey-Bruhn & Co..
Seattle There were rs head Of cattle
in the carload and they averaged 1880
pounds each They were purchased
from Pat Doherty of Butter creek.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Value of One Horse.

st. Simon, the greatest of living
English thoroughbred slres, has
earned over $1,OOO,OOO In stud fees
up to June. 1906. His get have won
races worth over s2,5OO,OOO, and the
get of his sons over s2,75O,OOO. He
will be 26 next spring and is still
potent,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

James ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railroad, has given
$4,000 to Manchester college, Min
neapolis, on condition that the pro-
ductive endowment fund be raised to
100000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Masonic Lodge Tonight.

a special meeting of Pendleton
lodge No. SO, A. f. and A. NJ, will
he held this evening beginning at Z
o'clock, for work in the masters de-
gree. Visitors from Walla Walla
will he present and full attendance
is requested.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

Near Wyeth, below The Dalles, two
O. p. & ~ cars burned, one loaded
with hops, the other with lumber. The
fire was caused by escaping oil on
engine 179, eastbound.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Found n Boa.

John Heathman, Of the oregon
Liquor store. found . fur boa on the
street this morning, which the owner
can have by calling upon Mr.. Heath
man.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Attention. WoOdmcn.

Installation and program tonight
All workmen, their families and
friends, are requested to attend. En-
tertainment commences at s o'clock
sharp.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS.
French History viii Meet With Mrs.
NJ. A, Sheridan OH January %.

The French History club will meet
at the home Of Mrs. NJ. A. Sheridan
on Wednesday January 23, at . p. m.
The program will be as defined in
the November magazine for the Sec
ond week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

Special sale on Pianos for this
month. Only chance to get high
grade piano cheap.
JESSE FAILING, G.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

looking over the field for business
location. He will remain for several
days and visit several point in the
county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
Paving Contracts Extended.

The city council held a regular
session last night of nearly three
hours duration, which time was oc-
cupied in large part by discussions
and reading of reports of city officials
for the month of December, says the
Boise Statesman. Further time was
granted the Warren Construction
company for the completion of five
blocks of paving in paving district
No. 7, which, according to a previous
extension of time, were to be COM
pleted by January l and the remain
der Of the district by June 10.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
VAUDEVILLE ON JANUARY 21.
ComstoCll and Smith Installing n
First Glass Attraction In the Fer
gusop Building.

About $500 worth of fixtures and
improvements have been added TO the
J. W. Ferguson building on Main
street, by Comstock and Smith, who
will open continuous vaudeville
tEcater there on Monday afternoon
January 2l.
An elevated floor, a large stage
ticket boxes, dressing rooms and n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14

Read the East Oregonian.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
THE LEGISLATURE

HyHE legislature settled down to the
business of it's special session
= promptly yesterday, and If the
first days proceedings are a criterion
the work in hand will be transacted
with expedition. Fortunately the resig-
nation Of Railroad Commissioner Will
son and it's acceptance by telegraph
obviated the necessity Of taking up this
matter. and valuable time has been
saved thereby.
Too many bills providing for settle
ment Of the legal holiday question were
introduced. 1t will be unfortunate if
the legislature finds it necessary to
consider any but those that appear to
be the most comprehensive measures.
The legislature will do wisely, in this
exigency. if in enacting bill for finan-
cial relief it confne the scope of its
law to one year or less. This will afford
solution Of the present problems.
Further necessities csa be considered
with care by another legislature.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
THE WARPATH

TIME National Association of Liquor
Dealers is now realizing the folly
Il of speaking in haste. 1t is taking
it's leisure for repentance. Its spirit is
being chastened. 1t is becoming VIC
timized by it's own volubility The
petard that it set for the Prohibition
lists has been sprung, but it kicked
backward with doleful results.
The Prohibitionists are intoxicated
by the exuberance of their spirits
their own spirits, not those produced
by any of the members of the national
alliance of liquor dealers. The passion
ate condemnation of temperance and
prohibition uttered by the liquor men
has stirred their enemies as they have
never been stirred before Nothing
could have been more stupid, from the
tactician's standpoint, than the passage
of the liquor resolutions to the effect
that Prohibitionists were not good citi-
zens.
The liquor men have learned one
great 1esson-that the less oratory with
which they surround their business the
more likely they will be to succeed in
maintaining it as an institution.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
WEBB DELAY TO
PROTECT RAM WA VS.?

500 to the Southern Pacific company ant
a corresponding loss of tina. sum to the
treasury of the state.
Whether the figures presented by Mr.
Gibbon are above or a little below that
which might be determined to be the
actual figures, they are at least from an
expert source and are illustrative of the
main fact that the attorney general, by
reason of his inexplicable delay, is saving
thousands of dollars every, day to the
Southern Pacific at the expense of the
public.
1t is beginning to be charged against
Mr.. Webb that as a luminary of the
Southern Pacific political machine, now
dominant in this state, he will never be
disposed to take any earnest action
against the company, and that his inde-
cisive interviews signify "a desire if not
purpose, to postpone all action until tile
little affair blows over.'' But this is not
little affair and is not destined to
blow over. In fact, it is becoming of
state wide significance, and Attorney
General Webb will make great mis-
take if he persists, by repeated and con-
tinued delays, in giving color to the sus-
picion that he may entertain no purpose
whatever to prosecute the power that
nominated the whole state Republican
ticket at Santa Cruz last summer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
BENEVOLENT MONOPOLY

is 1t strange that several other states
are already seriously considering
the desirab bility of following New
York's example in establishing public
utilities commission? Almost every day
something is cropping out in the Empire
state to prove the great wisdom of the
legislature of 1907-under the lash of
Governor Hughes-in passing the novel
public utilities measure.
AT Lockport a small city in the
western part of the state, the gas and
electric light company asked permission
to combine two competing concerns.
The commission complied with the re-
instance competition was unnecessary
and wasteful. But in allowing the con-
solidation it was ordered that rates
should not be increased without, the
consent of the commission and that the
combined capital of the monopoly
should not exceed the aggregate of their
separate capitalizations in the past.
If the plan of the commission prove
acceptable to these two companies
Lockport will be the first city of New
York state to secure, with the assist
ance of a government commission
which had the power to rule otherwise,
the advantages of monopoly in public
utilities without the disadvantages that
have glared so persistently upon the
American public. The public utilities
commission will keep an eye upon the
Lockport combination. Every pro-
gressive state should do likewise. Per-
haps something of great value may be
learned.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20

The New York state court of appeals,
the court of last resort in that state,
has declared that the legislature ex-
ceeded its powers when it passed an
act permitting a recount of the votes
cast for mayor in the latest election in
New York city. Thereby disappears
Hearst's last hope for occupying that
chair in the city hall. New York city
is jealous of her rights, and under the
new system of government it is not
likely that a state legislature will en-
deavor to interfere in a local election
very soon again.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20

TIME Los Angeles Express, in COM
menting upon the suspicious de-
Il lay on the part of Attorney General
Webb in taking steps looking to the pun
ishment of the Southern Pacific for the
crime of rebating, notwithstanding the
fact that The Herald has made it plain
to any person capable of reading the
English language that the constitutional
provision is unequivocal, says:
SUSPICIOUS DELAY
More than six weeks have passed since
it was shown in an inquiry conducted
by Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane that the Southern Pacific railroad
company had in it's San Francisco Of
fees a list of Ala favored shippers to
whom it granted rebates on business in
this state.
That information has been and is in
possession of Attorney General Webb, to
whom it has been conclusively shown
that the state constitution in self-enforc-
ing provisions authorizes and directs him
to institute criminal proceedings against
the offending company.
The attorney general in recent inter
view admitted that he is thinking
about it, and that at the proper time
1 shall speak with force and effect"
by the additional statement that II do
not intend to take immediate action"
This indicates period of delay more
or less indefinite, and sends a shivering
doubt along the spinal column of the
people lest he MAJ wait until the expira-
ton of his term of office.
70 show what this indefinite delay
signifies in dollars and cents to the
Southern Pacific railroad company, Mr.
Thomas E. Gibbon of the Los Angeles
Herald, formerly skilled and success
full railway attorney, calculates that ur-
der the constitution and its provisions
for the punishment of rebates on state
business the fines which might be i'm
posed upon the Southern Pacific company
by reason of its admitted Ala favorite
shippers would amount, at a nominal fine
of $500 for each daily offense, to $S62, 800 a
month, or s2S,5OO a day. According to
the provisions of the criminal code legal
action can only include offenses COM
mitted within the preceding twelve
months, so that every day lost in failure
to institute proceedings takes one day
from the responsibility of the offending
company.
1t can readily be seen, therefore, that
every day of delay on the part of the
attorney general signifies a gain of $2S,-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
WHOM 1T HELPS

TT is not surprising that President
| Roosevelt should sympathize with
Il the American Newspaper Publish
ers' association in it's effort to procure
the abolition of the import duty on
press paper and of wood pulp and wood
which enters into the composition of
paper. Mr.. Roosevelt realizes the
necessity of keeping the price of print
paper and the raw materials of which
it is composed down to the lowest figure
that will allow a reasonable margin of
profit to the manufacturers. He also
realizes that an eXorbitant market price
on this commodity, due chiefly to an
unnecessary and most irksome import
duty, must result in q decrease either
of newspaper and other periodical out
put or a lowering of the standard of
that class of literary work which makes
the periodical press the greatest of
educational factors.
Even now the blank paper entering
into the production of daily, weekly
and monthly publications not infre-
quently costs much more than the pub
fishers receive for the product of the
press. Fifteen to twenty-five years ago
men grew rich in manufacturing paper
and selling it at about half the present
figure placed upon it. The tariff has
not been wholly responsible for the rise
in the price of this product. A few
years ago paper manufacturers all over
the country began to combine. The
direct result was an increase in the
selling price of their output. Competi-
tion was stified by methods which have
since become known to all intelligent
men, and before long there remained
in the country hardly paper mill that
was not in the combine.
The paper trust has asserted that II
owns but two Canadian mills. Think
ink that this might be true, a well
known Boston publisher recently en-
deavored to obtain his supply from
Canada, but after making all his ar
arrangements to that end he suddenly
discovered that the mill which had
promised to supply him with paper was
unable to do the work" Soon after
ward an agent of the trust visited him
and, after recounting to him every ster
he had taken in negotiating with the
Canadian mill, laughed at him for his
failure to get out Of the clutches of the
trust.
And the trust is the child Of oul
beneficent 'protective'' tariff!
Every intelligent American reads
daily or weekly newspapers Most Of
us read magazines. Some of us read
books. The trust that furnishes the
blank paper to publishers and printers
in America sells it to publishers an6
printers in England and France and
Germany for less than the asking price
in this country. The protective
tariff, and that alone, enables them tc
do so. And unfortunately, what is
true of paper is equally true of variou:
foodstuffs, Of steam engines, windmiIls
churns. shoes, hats, gloves and a thou.
sand and one other things
Yes. the protective tariff is noble
institution-for the trusts.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
SEE STATES PAGE FOR ALL THE NEWS
FROM YOUR OLE HOME.
A BUDDY"

WHE American English tongue ap-
pears about to be enriched by the
Interpolation of new term. Ii
is buddy" In a recent issue of the
National Review DR.. William Wallace
defines buddy as follows.
AS used in the larger cities, it is
applied good naturedly and not disre-
spectfully to man who is not neces-
sarily deficient in capacity or even in
character, who is indeed as a rule
somewhat noisily energetic and public
spirited, but who looks at everything.
and especially every political question,
from the standpoint of his sect, his
class, his trade, or his crotchet, who
seldom thinks nationally or imperially,
but almost always provincially if not
parochially"
That ought to be plain enough. And
it is equally plain that the buddy is
not peculiar to Great Britain. Duncan
Maclaren, a Scottish member of parlia-
ment was once commonly referred to
as king of the buddies'' DR.. Wallace
describes him as having been "a man
of unquestionable industry, persistency,
and, within limits, of patriotism" The
term is believed to be a corruption of
the Scotch word "bodie."
In Great Britain the typical "buddyn
is the small tradesman, with his (natur-
ally enough in that country narrowly
circumscribed outlook into the field of
politics. literature, art, science and life
in general The term may properly be
applied to the average man of this class
in Great Britain, but not in this coun-
try. In the land of our earlier forbears
the tradesman is and always has been
looked down upon socially and his
opinions on affairs in general have not
been highly esteemed. But in America
the ranks of the tradesmen furnish
some of the brightest minds in
the country. Some of the most valued
public and quasi-public men have been
drawn from this field as witness
Robert Morris, the patriot of revolu-
tionary times; John Wanamaker, once
postmaster general; Marshall Field, art
connoisseur; William L. Douglas, gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and very many
others whose enlightened viewpoint has
enabled them to take conspicuous
place in American history
The real American "buddy"-if the
term sticks to the American English
will be more apt to be the vociferous
political contractor who is enabled
through his blatancy and his pull" to
"do things" for his constituents. The
spirit of local and class interest which
moves the average man who attains
Office of public trust. the motive that
impels him to sacrifice the welfare of
his entire community that he may be
instrumental in contributing to the
ephemeral interests of individuals--
these are the spirit and the motive
which make men "buddies." When
'buddy" becomes Americanized it viii
probably be found to apply to men of
this sort, regardless of their vocations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
THE Two IDEALS

| IHI HE eastern press is finally awaken-
ing to the fact that the problem
= OF oriental labor is not confined
nor to be confined to the Pacific slope,
but that 1t will assume national pro-
portions. That any matter vitality af-
fecting the interests of any such group
OF states as those in which this question
OF oriental labor has assumed an acute
stage is not of national interest is just
as unthinkabIe as that an outbreak of
a plague in New York or Boston or
Chicago is not matter in which San
Francisco or Buffalo should concern
itself. The Cleveland, o., Press re-
Gently said editorially:
For a month there have been no
serious outbreaks on the coast against
the orientals. This is as it should be.
Thinking men of every section know
that lawlessness and riot serve no pur-
pose. Congress meets next month.
What will congress do? We take it
that congress will feel obliged to do
something. tits not unlikely that we
shall hear speeches which excel in SEN
timent. America will be held up as the
haven of the oppressed and dowr-trod-
den of every land. However this may
be, we point, congress to a recent ut
terance of the London Spectator There
is no Indictment here, no radicalisri. no
frenzy. But we believe that what the
Spectator says is true, and that con-
gress cannot do better than to real
ize it.
Much as we respect the Japanese,
says this quiet English periodical,
much as we detest the usual Ijhe-
nomena of racial and color prejudice,
we are bound to say that in the last
resort we cannot wonder that the self
governing English-speaking communi-
ties of the empire are determined to re-
main white mems countries with all
that that involves, and will not run the
risk of letting the land they live in and
the land they love be made the ground
for an experiment which has never
been tried in history, the experiment
of community of mixed European and
Asiatic blood, founded on a mixture of
the social, religious and moral ideals
of the two continents" 3"
Not only is the eastern press Begin
ming to try to see things from the view
point of the Pacific coast, but it is evil
dent that the oriental menace is causing
other Anglo-Saxon editors to "view
with alarm that to which the Califor-
mia senses have become somewhat
dulled through our having become ac-
customed to the slow growing forces at
work for the undermining of white
labor. The public temper has cooled
since the San Francisco school incident,
and many of those who at first saw in
this nothing but the Incorporate act of
mob are beginning to concern them
selves with the deeper significance Of
the spirit beneath that outburst of
passion.
The occidental and the oriental ideals |
are and for many generations to come,
IL not forever will remain antitheses,
and the sooner all America recognizes
this fact, Known for long to thinking men
on this western coast, the more quickly
and satisfactorily will our race problem
be solved.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-20
NEWS DATES BACK TO MOSES

On the bulletin board of large broker
age house in New York on Saturday, the
following notice was posted, and 1t at
tracted great deal of attention:
Five thousand years ago Moses came
down from the mount and brought with
him tablet on which was written, Thou
shalt not steal
1.-TWO thousand years ago the same ad.
vice was preached to mankind.
To-day President Roosevelt is giving
the same advice, and Wall street thinks
1t is news. THE Monitor