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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
RECOVER THE LANDS.

A pamphlet reviewing the legisla-
ton. legal phases and present status
of the Southern Pacific land grants
in Oregon has just been prepared by
Attorney A. w. Lafferty of Portland,
for Attorney General Charles ]. Bo-
naparte.
This is the first step toward the
restoration of these priceless lands to
the public domain.
The review begins at the very be-
ginning of the land grants and fol-
lows the tortuous pathway through
congress, the United States land de-
partment, the Oregon legislature and
up to the present. On this founda-
ton it is hoped that the United States
builds a case sufficiently strong to
wrest the lands from the corporation
or force it to sell to the homesteader
at $3.50 per acre, as stipulated in the
grant.
This is but one of the magnificent
bodies of land held under grant in
Oregon. The military road land
grants extend through the heart of
central Oregon and are held by for
eign company purely for speculation.
The agents of this foreign compa-
ny prevented the adoption of the NAL
heur government irrigation project on
which several thousand settlers would
have found homes. This company is
not a useful citizen, it is simply 6
parasitical speculator, feeding fat up.
on the thrift of industrious settler.
surrounding its holdings.
The people would be justified IL
beginning proceedings to restore th'
military road grant to the public do
main. The road was never built, tn
provisions of the grant were neve
observed, the land is held today with
out warrant and there is ample jus
tification for proceedings to dispos
sess the foreign company and tur1
this land into usefulness.
Public sentiment in the west shoul
be strong enough to drive congres
to correct d number of errors made b
that body in the past. The need TO
homes in the west is more urgen
than the demand for opportunities t
speculate in the peoples property
The parasite should give place to tn
, worker; the speculator must stan
aside for the homebuilder.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
BIGGEST MULE IN THE WORLD.

The high-water mark on the price
of the world-famous Missouri mule
was recently set, when the largest
mule in the world was sold in East
st. Louis for $400. The enormous
size of the mule was the star attrac-
ton recently at the East st. Louis
Chasity carnival. The mule is a ma
tive of Culver, Mo. 1t was shipped to
Pittsburg, and upon its arrival there
will take its place beside a hairless
horse.
The animals will be used for exhibi-
tion purposes. The mule weighs 1860
pounds, almost twice the weight OF
an ordinary mule, and stands more
than eight feet high. with his head
up. There is not a blemish on him
and besides being the largest, is sale
by experts to be the most perfectly
formed large mule in the world
Kansas City Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
THE DELUDED PIONEERS.

For 35 years the big cattle COM
panies of central and southeastern
Oregon have persistently preached
that those sections of the state were
not adapted to farming. They have
bewailed the coming of the settler
and the narrowing of the range. This
false preaching of the cattle barons
and the cowboy hosts has kept many
a settler out of Harney and Malheur
county. 1t has held back the settle
ment of those counties for at least 20
years.
Abner Robbins built a modern grist
mill near Burns about 20 years ago,
upon the representation that wheat
would grow there. The cattlemen
discouraged wheat growing, talked
against it, agitated against it and
prevented tests wherever they could,
until at last when the Robbins mill
was ready there was really no wheat
anu 50 us WhcSlS StOOu SUN iOi q
decade II
A few years ago it was brushed up
and started and finally found plenty
OF Harvey wheat to grind. The delud-
ed pioneers found that the cattlemen
had preached against wheatgrowing
for a purpose-they did not want tc
see the magnificent range area:
ruined.
This week w. G. Holder, formerly
of Pendleton, took samples of 35
bushel wheat into Burns from his
farm at 1.-THE Narrows," in what wa!
formerly the heart of the desert
Thus is the delusion of the pioneer
shattered.
The East Oregonian well remember.
when vast tracts of the present whea
belt of Union and Umatilla countie!
were spurned by settlers as unfit fol
wheat growing. Somebody had SAID
so and the dictum became genera
and unalterable, until finally some
daring settler built cabin and begar
growing crops.
The arid lands which are now ar
"eye-sore" in many sections of Ore
gon are destined to be settled upor
and made productive. The germ !!
there. The desert holds the secret
and sooner or later the idle tracts
will be reclaimed. The era of actua
settlement in eastern oregon is }us
now beginning. AS the old delusions
are swept away, homes will multipl!
upon the desert.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
OREGON MIsREPRESENTED.

The Boston Transcript, a corpora
ton paper interested in defeating all
efforts toward popular government,
wilfully lies about the initiative and
referendum in oregon, in Its frantic
efforts to defeat a similar measure
in Massachusetts,.
The misrepresentation, falsehood,
misconstruction OF facts, wilful mis-
statements made by the Boston paper,
which really processes to be leading
Massachusetts paper. are positively
amazing. Here is one Of the mlldest
missstatements from a recent editor
ial in the Transcript:
Experience has proved in oregon
that 1t is perfectly easy to get peti-
tons to any measure in which a group
OF enthusiastic individuals may be
interested. In Portland 1t is COM
mon saying that 1t is easier to sign
a petition than to refuse, so the hur-
ried man, the lazy man, the good
natured man, all sign whatever comes
before them.
"At the last state election IL meas
ures went before the people for ac'
ceptance. The title rarely expressed
the meaning. In fact the title wa'
more often a misnomer. The average
man was interested in perhaps two ol
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
SKETCH OF SENATOR PERKINS.

George Clement Perkins, United
States senator from California, was
born August 23, 1889, at Kennebunk-
port, Me. firing of life on the farm
he left home when lad of IL years
and until 1855 followed the sea as
cabin boy and sailor. In 1855 he ship
ped aboard a sailing vessel bound for
San Francisco. He left his ship at
that port and settled at Oroville, Cal.
Here he went into business, prospered
and in time became bank president
and the principal owner of several
steamships. He entered political life
in 1858, when he was elected a mem
ber of the state senate. The cost of
governor of California was won by
him in 1879. and he held that position
till 1888. In 1893 he was the sue
cessful choice of the republicans for
seat in the United States senate.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

Roosevelt will have a hard time
making a lot Of people believe that
Taft is the fit successor to the Roose-
welt administration. Taft may be ac-
ceptable to Roosevelt, but 1t has only
been a few years since the big sec
retary Of war was considered strict
ly corporation man and his regenera-
ton is all too recent for him to be
accepted into full fellowship with the
real reformers of the Roosevelt-Folk-
La Toilette type. He should serve
an apprenticeship of at least four
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
CONFEDERATE CAMPS DECLINE

Three hundred and ninety camps
of Confederate Veterans were drop
ped during 1906 because of apathy
and non-payment of dues, according
to the annual report of Adjutant Gen.
eral William E. Mickle. Forty-one
charters were issued during the peri
cd, bringing the total strength to
1649 camps.
Texas with ~ showed the greatest
decline. Others are as follows: South
Carolina, Al; Georgia, "A; Alabama,
AS; Missouri, 32; Arkansas, 20; Ten
nessee, 1S; North Carolina, II; Mis-
sissippi, 13; Virginia, IA; Indian Ter
ritory, II; Kentucky, 10; Louisiana,
9; Florida, s; Oklahoma, 8; West
Virginia, Z; Maryland. S; Pacific
states, 2; Massachusetts,, Army
and Navy Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

three measures, and professed abso-
lutte ignorance of all the rest, and yet
he decided their fate.
"Oregon's experience, therefore,
teaches that signatures to petition
afford no barrier against foolish or
ill-adyised projects"
If this editorial were not such ma
licious misrepresentation of facts, it
would be amusing. 1t voices the wall
of the corporations against the over
whelming tide of independence and
popular government, which is sweep
ing over the United States from Ore
gon to Massachusetts.
This is a sample of the plutocratic
argument. 1t is an illustration of
plutocratic weakness. The truth
about Oregon would have helped the
cause of popular government in Mass
achusetts, so this enemy of popular
government, relying on its standing
among newspapers to exert some
small bit of influence, perverts the
truth and makes itself the laughing
stock and plays the idiotic jester be-
fore every thinking man in Oregon
who knows the truth about the ini-
tiative and referendum here.
The initiative and referendum
amendment was adopted by vote OF
five to one in Oregon and there has
been no attempt to repeal it,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
ESSAY OF $50 WORDS.

A school girl was required to write
an essay of ESQ words about an auto
mobile. She submitted the following:
my uncle bought an automobile. He
was riding out in the country when 1t
busted going up a long hill. I guess
that is about 80 words. The other
200 are what my uncle said while he
was walking back to town, but they
are not fit for publication"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
PRONOUNCED 1T BUTTER.

Two men in a restaurant were
discussing how to pronounce mar
garine-should 1t be '..marjareen" OF
"margareen." with the "g" hard
They referred the point to the wait
ress. well, SIR" she replied demure.
ly, 1t is as much as my job is worth
to call 1t anything but butter"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

The island Of Laysan, Hawaii, has
not disappeared as was reported by
the captain of the schooner Olsen.
The island was visited on the 18th
of this month by the United States
government tug Iroquois, which was
returning from Guam.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

Pierce Brothers of the Grande
have begun the delivery at Conley
Spur, on the Elgin branch, Of 400
tons Of timothy hay, which goes to
the Portland markets. The price re-
ceived (. o. b. at Conley is $12 per
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

It's down hill every way into Port
lands harbor That's why she is des-
tined to be the chief commercial and
shipping center of the northwest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
e. 60 a. DRIVES OUT
- - -. RHEUMATISM

The OF Rheumatism acid condition the blood brought
about by indigestion chronic constipation and the accumulation the
which
out This refuse generating
acid which absorbed into the blood and distributed
and gets possession of the system One also be born
with preposon tendency Rheumatism all blood
eases can be transmitted from child pains
the disease only symptoms which relieve with n
men plasters bste deaden with opaes
such treatment left off there exposure dampness
after attack OF indigestion constipation the wandering palms.
ana Joints and tender places on the flesh return and the sufferer
checked while
disease remains in the blood Rheumatism
blood remains saturated with irritating pain producing acid poison
s. s. Rheumatism by driving the
ougy ceanses the blood and renoa the circulation neuang
acids and expelng all foreign matter from the system
and the blood that instead of weak stream constantly
deposing
bones the body oohed and nouhed by rich sustaining blood
which completely and permanently Rheumatism. composed
herbs and bars which both purifying
Just what needed Rheumatism
and medical advice free THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.. ATLANTA GA
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

years and prove his staying qualities
Bryan will come much nearer carry
ing out the Roosevelt policy than
Taft
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND. OREGON.

PORTLAND. OREGON.
American plan. SO per day and up
wards. headquarters for tourists and
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
establishment in the hotel.
H. c. BOWERS. Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

, Where now we wait a 'dreary !
; waste may be, +
, With no green thing to glad our I
longing eyes.
, And far away-across the I
, bounding sea, +
, Are hid the balmy isles of Para !
disc! :
, stand fast, o soul, thy captive I
, days are closing, !
Lift up thy voice in song of =
, endless praise.
For deep, nor high, nor storms !
nor treacherous loosings !
Shall hide thee from the glory !
: of His ways! I
, Julia Seton Sears in The Bal I
ance.
. q q = = z T. + 4 + + 2 , = 2 = . I
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-23

Pretty organdy short Kimonas wsth
full bell sleeve, band effect cuffs.
These were sold at Cranks for
$1.25. To close them out we
offer for Saturday (also EAo
Monday ............... Wv
Style 1925, handsome floral lawn
short Kimonas, white lawn edges
on front and cuffs; formerly the
dollar kind, for saturday IQc
and Monday ............ uoC
Style 2550-Neat striped lawn XII
monas, were marked special at
SSc at Cranks, will make entire
lot for quick dispo- IEc
sal ......... ..,........ NV
Style 2540-Long Kimonas made
of pretty lawns. edged in pink and
blue, bell sleeve, full and well
made; these were 50 &lI2
go at ............., shO
Full length all wool batiste and all
wool albatros Kimonas. very
handsome, were $3.50 o. M
go at 0CsSC
Full length crepons and fancy
flannelette Kimonas, were $3.50,
SO and $3.50. These &IOE
Il at
Numerour other specials that
are displayed.
Children's Knit Waists, very easy,
strong and serviceable, reinforce
ed bands, lot of assorted sizes,
25c qualities go at, each. -. 18c
SO embroidered pecay Stock Col
lars, full length, double bands,
not many, but they are to go
at ............... 28c
35c and 40c fancy white Stock
Collars, all at ..........,. 25c
25c fancy white Neckwear, very
jaunty and neat .......... 15c
Embroidered white duck washa-
BILE Belts at ............. .1Oc
Ladies' 35c silky inserted lace neck
and with heavy crocheted inser-
ton at top, very fine white knit
RID at ............. .......... 23c
/ A few dozen lace neck, taped shlr
sleeve and neck opening, sleeve-
less white vests, that were zoe, at
half price ................ 10c
A large lot of neat &c, SC and 10c
cambric edge Embroideries, very
neat needle work, the whole lot
at, yard ,............' DC
Pretty Embroidery Insertions, that
you've paid 12hc, 15c, and even
1Sc for, go at, yard. ....... DC
Always something new to greet
you at the
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24
LONE OAK
BY PLow BOY.
desertiOn

C. G. Pitchford butchered a
fat hog Monday.
John Hedge and wife were Wis
iting at Mace Hedges Sunday.
Chas. Kennedy was doing ar.
penter work for Sam Lane last
week.
Tom Booth and family we're
visiting at George Booths Sun.
day.
Our farmers are all wanting a
good rain to help the wheat, and
make some stock water.
Mrs. Ruth Bomar and son
Pearl were visiting at James
ILpe's near Butler Sunday.
Mrs. r. B. Bartz and Miss Ber-
tina Pitchford were trading with
hich hill merchants Saturday.
Gus GLAND and wife. Of Rich
Hill, were visiting in this vicinity
last Saturday and Sunday,
Several Of our farmers have
started to husking corna and some
Of them report it turning out
better than expected.
/. Beshore, Grant Slime. j. S.
Merkey and Harye Beshorne
have all been cutting and hauling
logs to mill for lumber TO do some
improving on their places.
PLow Boy.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24
Hot Times in Kentucky.

The following taken from an
Indiana paper published just
across the river from old Ken
lucky viii perhaps be interest
ing to many Of our Kentucky
readers. The paper says:
The old commonwealth of Ken
lucky is in the midst Of the hot
test political battle at present
that she ever experienced-and
that is saying a whole lot, for
any kind Of a political battle over
thAre is a hot one. But the
Beckham machine methods that
have predominated over there
during the period that the little
fellow has been governor, have
shout reached their limit. The
democratic party is a little more
than half split in two and the
majority is opposing BeckhaE
aud his gang. Augustus Il
Wilson, republican nominee for
governor, has more than a good
chance TO win next month, and
prominent democrats are de-
claring that the time has come
for Grips" to loosen his grip.
Louis Ludlow, writing 10 the
indianapolis Star from the cen.
ire Of the bluegrass battle
grounds, Louisville, refers 10
Ingersoll's expression that he
would believe there was a hell
when Kentucky rolled up a ma
jority for the republican ticket,
says that if the famous agnostic
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24
noMAneE or LIZ sINoER.
From the hallway Platform 10 tho
Opera HoVoo.


n. Jean Note, the famous barytone
Of the Paris opera house, and who has
sung more often on the stage Of the
Paris opera than any other Twins
singer, left Paris tho other day 70 DO
present at the fctes which were held
recently, IN his native town OF Tour.
nay, IA Belgium. In honor o. the great
artists jubilee.
N. Jean Notes career has been a
~slnguiarly romantic one. He was born
at Tourney. and began life there as
a weaver In a cloth factory. He vas
noted for HIS nne voice among his fel.
low workmen. He left the factory to
become a railway porter at the Tour
nay station. and soon became a signal.
man.
At the aEe OF q he became a con
script In the Belgian army. and II was
while undergoing his military service
that his officers took an interest in
him, and subscribed a purse to send
him TO the Conservatoire Of Music at
Client.
Here he worked hard. and succeed.
ed In obtaining the FIRST prize for
singing. He made his debut IN "Lueie
de Lammermoor. at the Lille thea.
ter In 1855. He was then engaged for
two years at the Antwerp theater. and
for three years at Lyons. after which
he went straight 70 the Paris opera,
which he has never left since.
While an opera singer in Paris NJ.
Note greatly distinguished himself by
an act Of daring and cooi-headedness
which saved an express train from
total wreck. On September q. 1887.
NJ. Note was standing on the platform
Of the Paris suburban station Of
Colonies, when II was seen &C the
horror OF the numerous passengers
waiting IN the station that a train Of
IS vans loaded with dynamite had
shunted out on the main line on which
the Cherbourg Express was due at
that moment.
The ststionmaster and porters lost
their heads. Note, recoilecting that
he had been a signalman, lost not a
moment He ran to the levers, pulled
them back. and sent the dynamite
wagons on to a siding just as the ex-
press came hustling past For this.
NJ. Note received high distinction
from the French government-LOn.
don Mail.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24
a STRANGE Seed pod.

Tho antirrhinum. or snapdragon. Is
n Of the old-fashioned garden flow.
ers known BY everyone. Although
It is a visitor from southern Europe
II has been here so long hat 4 has
become naturalized when We say
lions mouth" frogs mouth" "calfs
mouth" rabbits mouth we mean
sn~apdragon. all these M being
suggested by its groteaque. maskiike
corolla. But there is something atm
more grotesque n we win walt tn
the seed time and gather the dried
brown skeleton Of the seed pod. Look
Al them sideways under a bright
lampllght n possible. and you will
hnd they have quite a resemblance
to a rh~inoceros. Remove the calyx
and the little horns on the nose, and
look a. them from the front. and they
have a stiil more striking resemblance
70 human skulls. and BY turning them
about you set an sorts Of queer eK,
pressions on the grinning mouth.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24

The requirements Of the act Of
Feb. g. 1907, as 10 seryiv b the.
war Of the rebellion aiet hon
orable discharge Thereof ~, are.
IN al respects the same as those
Of the act Of June q, 1890, and
an honorable discharge from ali
enllstments for service during
the war on account Of which pen
sion is claimed Is a prerequisite
to pension under either Of said
acts. except as they are modified
by the joint resolution Of July 1,
1902, as amended June %. 1906.
FEE Increase - Medical Elk
animation. - Where, in a claim
for increase Of pension, a claim
ant has failed to appear for med
ical examination before a board
of surgeons in compliance with
an order Of the Burean, and he
files an explanation as to his fail
ure TO appear for examination or
a request for the issue Of anoth
er order. which explanation or
request is insufficient for its in
tended purpose, no other action
is necessary TO dispose of the
claim by the Bureau than a no
tice to either the claimant or his
attorney that said explanation or
request is insufficient.
SERvIcE-Act June q, 1890
Commissioned Ohcer. - When,
subsequent to enlistment, a sol
der is commissioned as an Off
Ger, has pensionable service I'M
der the act of June %, 1890, COM
mences from date of enlistment
and should be computed from
that date and not from date of
muster in as a commissioned
officer.
SERVICE - Fourth Arkansas
Mounted Infantry-Act June q,
1890. - The Fourth Arkansas
Mounted Infantry (Col. Elisha
Baxter), in which claimants
husband served, was not in the
military service of the United
States during the civil war, as
reported by the War Department
March 5, 1907, and soldier was
therefore not honorably dis
charged from the service within
the meaning of the acts of June
%, 1890, and May 9, 1900.
HONORABLE Discharge - De-
sertion, Act June q, 1904
sailor in the United States navy
when the late civil war ended
was not honorably discharged
from his service in said war,
within the meaning Of the act Of
June q, 1890, if at that time he
was absent from his vessel in
desertion.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24

There is marked Improvement
all along the line in Rich Hill and
from the communications that
seem to be pouring in on our
coal men, coal business is get
ting brisk around about the
city, and everybody knows our
hay men have been busy as bees
since early in the summer. Rich
Hill never saw more prosperous
times than she is enjoying right
now.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24

The rapid growth OF Japan's rail.
ways during the last fes years Il seen
from the fact that IN 1875 the mum.
Der OF passengers carried vas a.754..
t2s. whereas IN 1905 Il had been aug.
mented 70 If.675s0S. Durlnn TIE
same period The volume Of iFeiRbt
trame had also risen to considerably
over $1,000. 900 tons. While the total
receipts had rison from ei4,459 70
6s.0S5.f65 yen.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-10-24
a FALLS OF LoDoHE.
The Disappointment Of the American
Tourist Was Great.

southey's description Of Lodore has
given to that charming friend OF holt
day days 8 reputation which is a little
unfortunate. II has brought to It's
course worshippers from afar, when
there has not been q cupful OF water
20 perform as much as the meanest
Of feats which the poet describes. One
such visitor was an American. He had
seen Niagara again and again. He
real Southey on the wonders Of To.
dore. and nee more visited the vast
cataract OF his native land. Then.
feeling that, after all. Niagara must
be very small potatoes compared with
the falls OF which the poet had sung.
resolved to eonsecrate bis holiday 10
the contemplation OF It's beauties and
grandeur. Het set out the moment he
reached Keswick. and long walked
and toiled y e rocks and boulders. He
could not find the falls. He rested,
and asked: Can you direct me 70 the
Falls OF Lodors?" Why. you're a,
sittin' on EN-" was the heart-breaking
answer. The falls OF all the adjectiyes
we're dry!-st James Gazette.