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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
LANTERN SESSIONS.

Following a dangerous precedent es-
tablished some time ago, the board of
education is again resorting to ''execu-
tive sessions in the consideration and
transaction of important public bust
ness. This is a defiance Of public poll
cy. a violation of every public obliga-
ton. a possible means of covering up
transactions which would otherwise
meet with disapproval, and it should
not be permitted to pass without pro-
test.
1t IS possible to conceive of circum-
stances which would justify secret
meetings. Where charges have been
made against a teacher which involve
that teachers character, it would be
unfair to consider the accusations in
public unless the accused demanded it.
The contemplated purchase of real es-
tate might excuse preliminary discus
sion in private to secure the best terms
possible, but the large questions of poll
cy. the real business of the board
should be debated in open meeting so
that the people of Salt Lake City may
know. not only what is going on. but
what the reasons are for every act of
the hoard which is important enough
for discussion at all.
Some members of the board Of educa-
ton. presumably the majority OF them,
assume that they have a right to do as
they please about this matter. In other
wo~ls, they take the position that the
servants OF the people have a right to
defy the sentiment and wishes of their
masters. No man ever feared publicity
who was doing right; no public SER
wants resort to executive sessions
whose reasons for action will stand the
light. The secret meeting is the favor
tie resort Of officials who either fear eX-
posture Of wrong or are too cOwardly to
give their reasons even when they be-
lieve they are doing right.
In this case there has been no cause
as yet to suspect the board of any
wrongdoing, but these executive ses-
sions" are the surest means the board
could adopt if it were trying to arouse
distrust Of its motives and suspicion of
its actions. The quicker the system is
changed and the members adopt a
frank, open policy with their constitu-
ents. the better it will be for the board
and the school system of the city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
MUST NOT DESERT PARTY.

The Democratic members of the Wis
consin legislature, which is just now in
a senatorial deadlock, are being urged
TO get in and help the Republicans elect
some Republican with progressive
principles" A Republican newspaper
published at Milwaukee the other day
printed some interviews with alleged
prominent Democrats in which the sug-
gestion outlined above was made. On
general principles a Democratic legisla-
tor who votes for any Republican for
United States senator betrays the trust
reposed in him by his constituents and
proclaims himself unfit for further po-
litical honOrs.
The Democrats Of the Wisconsin leg
islature are in no way responsible for
the disgraceful row that has been pre-
cipitated over the senatorship left va
cant by the resignation of Mr.. Spooner.
1t Is a Republican fight. pure and sim
pie. The Democrats have no more bust
ness mixing in it than they would have
in going as delegates to a Republican
state convention to break a deadlock
over nomination for some state office.
They were elected as Democrats, not as
Republicans. and it is their duty to
keep on voting for Democratic sena-
torial candidate to the end, even
though they know there is no hope of
electing him.
If the Republicans of Wisconsin are
so anxious to settle the trouble why
don't they vote with the Democrats for
Democrat? That would be as effec-
tive a quietus on the fight as the cleo
ton OF a Republican by Democrats.
But you don't hear the Republicans
making any such proposition. We
would even be willing to have the
names of the most prominent RepubH-
can candidate and the most prominent
Democratic candidate put into a hat
and let bHndfolded boy draw out one
of them, the name SO selected to be
voted for by both Democrats and Re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

publicans. But does anybody suppose
the Republican leaders would consent
TO that proposition? They certainly
would not.
Your Republican politician is never
willing to take remote chance Of los
ing an office. He is not willing to damn
himself politically, but he is willing to
let his Democratic friends damn them
selves if they can be persuaded to do
so. Why, if the Democrats should help
to elect a Republican senator from
Wisconsin, and that senator should
turn out to be the greatest man the
country has ever known, would the
Democrats get any credit for it? Not
on your eternal fleshpots. The Repub-
LEANS would claim everything. as is
their blithe habit.
The Democratic legislators should
emphatically let the Republicans fight
out their own battles. They control
the legislature by a comfortable ma
tority. They will be held responsible
for a failure to elect a senator 1t is
I'D to the Democrats to give them all
possible rope. 1t may be possible for a
Democrat in Utah to vote for Repub-
lican for senator without losing his
party standing, but it should not be
possible anywhere else.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
oHOULD BE PARDoNED.

The man January. of Kansas City,
who is serving an unexpired term in
the Leavenworth penitentiary, should
undoubtedly be pardoned. Indeed,
there seems now no doubt that he viii
be pardoned, for the judge who tried
him, the last obstacle in the way of
JanUary's freedom, has signed a petit
ton for his release The department
of justice will now doubtless recon-
mend the pardon to the president and
the latter will promptly issue 1t.
January was convicted of robbing a
postoffice and sentenced to serve sew
eral years in the penitentiary. He made
a model prisoner, but when he had only
eight months more to serve, he could
not resist a suddenly offered opportun-
ity to escape. This was nine years ago.
January changed his name and went to
Kansas City to live. There he engaged
in business, married and lived an alb
solutely clean life.
A few weeks ago a resident of Kan
sas City who knew January's record
saw him and betrayed him to the fed
eral officers. His arrest and return to
prison followed. 1t seems hardly neces-
sary to comment on the unspeakable
meanness of the man who told the
story. His meanness has already re-
acted upon him in the scorn of his
neIghbors and the withdrawal of their
! friendship. He will not be able to con-
tinue to live in Kansas City.
/ The purpose of Furnishing criminals is
not to avenge society but to protect it.
Modern prison methods are reformative
rather than punitive. When a man
| shows that he has reformed the prison
| has accomplished its work In the case
/ of January the reformation was COM
plete. He had been guilty of only the
one offense. It is true that he should
| but in his nine years of freedom he
abundantly demonstrated that he had
| become a good citizen.
The public, generally speaking, is
| bitterly prejudiced against the ex-con-
/ Wet. When he comes out of prison,
| even though he has made UP his mind
| to be honest, he too often finds that
| the hand of every man is against him.
/ So often is this the case that many ex-
! cOnvicts who had determined to live
| honest lives are driven to crime in or
! der to secure a livelihood. The January
| case will have much to do with eradi-
/ eating this prejudice.
He has shown-and other ex-convicts
! have shown-that it is possible for the
criminal to reform if he is given a
chance. The public should be more pa
| tient with them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Governor BuchteL the Methodist ex-
ecutive of Colorado, declares that the
citizens of Colorado believe Haywood,
Meyer and Pettibone are guilty. He
had better sit down somewhere and
pray for a heart with less exaggeration
and more sense of fairness in it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Newspaper men will not be allowed
to congregate in the White house
grounds any more-unless. of course,
they belong TO the fearless, upright,
coura geous'' type that swallows all the
presidents yarns without blinking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
NO oFFENsE.
Chicago News.l

First Stranger ION train)-Don't you
ever quarrel with your wife?
Second Stranger-Never.
First Stranger-Have any trouble with
the hired gir12
Second Stranger-Not me.
First Stranger-Don't your children
worry you at home?
Second Stranger-No, indeed.
First Stranger-Say, I don't like to call
you liar but
Second Stranger-Oh, that's all right
I'm a bachelor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Some of the arbitration committees
that were busily engaged in settling the
strike must have been very much sur
prised yesterday morning when they
walked up and found that it had done
been" settled.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

A southern railroad president has re-
signed because the roads bondholders
refused to let him have an annual pass
over his own line. That would make
almost anybody peevish.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

If somebody will invent a crowless
rooster he can learn something to his
advantage on application to the secre-
tary of the state board of health.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Three thousand women whist players
will meet in New York next week.
Wonder if any of them will ask.
Whats trumps?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
TECHNICAL BASEBALL REPORTS
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

cleveland Plain Dealer)
Going to the game this afternoon?''
Yep l am awfully busy. too
Why don't you wait and read about it
in the morning paper?''
THAT wouldn't do me any good I'd
have to see the game to understand the
article"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
ADJUSTMENTS TO-DAY.

Salt Lake-'The Cingalee."
Orpheum-Matinee and Night-Vaude-
Vile.
Lyric-Matinee and Night-Vaudevile
Grand-'"The Cherry Pickers."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
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James D. Pardee returned yester-
day from a trip to New York City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Fair
THE METALS.

Silver, 653sc per ounce.
Copper (casting). 23S4c per pound
Copper (cathOdes). 24c per pound.
Lead IS re- 100 pounds
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Bishop SpaIding and the faculty of
Rowland hall have issued cards for a
reception to be given at Rowland hall
next Tuesday evening from till II
O'Clock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

The Bridge club meets this afternoon
with Mrs. c. K. Won Knoblock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03
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Mrs. Stuart F. McFarlane of Los An
geIes, who was to have stayed over for
a visit with her cousin, Mrs. w. l..
Jones, was obliged to go on to the west
leaving here yesterday
at noon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

The young peoples Bible class of tn
First Methodist Sunday school wi
hold a reception in the church thi
evening.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

Miss Mary Smedley has gone to ST.
Joseph. Mo, for a visit of some time
with her sister, Mrs. W. II. Curtin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

The Daughters of the Confederacy
will hold their regular meeting this
afternoon with Mrs. r. A. Hasbrouck
at 217 Fourth East. Besides the menu
bers of the order all southern women
will be welcomed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-03

MI and Mrs. Edgar s. Hills are bach
after spending a few weeks at Pacifi
Grove with Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester :
Lynn.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
MELBA's VOICE PAYS HER WE'LL

Nine. Melba is the highest priced
singer in the world and one of the
wealthiest women in the public eye.
For every performance at the
Manhattan opera house she receives
$4,000. Half Of the amount of the
salary she draws from Mr.. Hammer
stein for this entire season was de-
posted with her bankers in London
before she sailed for America. The
rest is paid her $4,000 at a time the
omrning after each New York ap-
pearance and deposited with her 10.
cal bankers. There is absolutely no
reduction or concession to agents in
this $4,000.
In addition to singing once every
week and sometimes twice, at the
Manhattan, Melba gives at least two
concerts week, for each one of
which a $4,000 house is guaranteed,
her foe being so per cent of the pro-
ceeds. Tho highest price she ever re-
ceived for singing was s13,300, which
she was paid once for a single con-
cert in Sydney. This forms a striking
contrast to the sum Of SIS a night she
drew at the outset of her career in
her native country. She has recent
ly received an offer of $4,000 a per-
formance for a tour in South AM
erica
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
THE CURSE OF OREGON.

While the substantial and bona
fide business interests of Oregon are
inviting homeseekers and capitalists
into the state to take advantage of its
rich opportunities, few miserable
grafters sit in favored places to rob
the unwary and get something for
nothing from deserving people who
are in search of homes.
\ wrong which the East Oregonian
has complained of many times in the
past is now reaching a climax in
central Oregon. The large land COM
panies which are reclaiming land
Under the Carey act have bilked set
tiers by selling lands that were not
actually reclaimed and that can never
be reclaimed with the amount of
water owned by the companies.
The advertisements of these lands
were misleading, dishonest and Grim
inal and thousands of people have
been induced through them, to invest
in arid land in hopes OF seeing it re-
claimed as promised
Driven to desperation by the fail
ure of the company to make good"
settlers on the Columbia Southern ir-
rigation company's tracts have de-
manded the return of their money on
the ground that the land is insuffic-
iently irrigated.
The company has sold land to the
amount of several hundred thousand
dollars and settlers have waited fol
the promised water until they are now
desperate.
The state is back of these schemes
The companies have used the credit
of the state to induce hom-seekers tC
go into central Oregon and now thu
state must recover the money taker
from these innocent purchasers, b!
the criminal company.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
RAILROADS FOR UMATILLA.

Within the past month the East
Oregonian has announced that pre-
liminary steps on two railroad extern
sions are being taken in Umatilla
county-one a branch from this city
into the foothill district south into the
Tutuilla wheat belt, and one from the
Columbia river into the Cold Springs
wheat belt.
Both these projects are feasible and
probable, and will add from 10 to 20
percent to the value of property in
the sections of the county affected.
Aside from these projected extern
sions an electric line from Freewater
southwest toward Athena, Weston and
Pendleton Is almost q certainty within
a few years. The line now constructed
to Freewater win not stop there.
While portions of the county are
now inadequately supplied with trans
portation, it will be but short time
until branch lines will penetrate into
every section which produces anything
worth going after.
Really, the best era is just dawn
ing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
WILL HAVE A MODEL FARM.

A correspondent from Payette,
Ida, writes as follows to the Boise
Statesman of a model farm to be es-
tablished near there:
A. Z. Wood, the pioneer real es-
tate man If Payette, is going to have
model farm in the Payette valley.
lie ordered more than $500 fruit
trees. which, when set out, will make
one of the largest orchards in the
valley. He has long studied fruit
growing and different phases of
farming and in his real estate busi-
ness has had much to do with Sc
iacting fruit which has been taken
from this valley for exhibition pur-
poses, al.d lie is now going to plant
his ideal orchard, fully 200 trees of
which will be of special exhibition
varieties.
His land, of which there are $50
acres, is in Crystal bottom, about
six miles north of Payette. The site
selected by Mr.. Wood has been pro-
nounced by prominent fruit men as
an exceptionally good location for
the orchard he intends to plant. 1t
is near the mouth of Sand Hollow,
where the soil has been washed
down from the hills and is at least 10
feet deep and very rich.
Mr.. Woods is also going to plant
! five acres in orchard which will get
ite moisture by sub-irrigation. If the
trees thrive this wear, he says that
next season he will plant an orchard
!
pertinent will he made on alluvial
| sandy soil.
| Apples will he the principal fruit
| in Mr.. Woods main orchard. Among
,he varieties will be the Jonathan,
Rome Beauty, Spitzenburg, Newtown
Pippin, Staymen's Winesay, etc.
Among his 200 trees of special ex-
hibition varieties will be the Com
merce, Senator, Champion, Zen
Hur, Delicious and King David. The
arple trees viii. ba sct 80 feet apart
ir each direction. In the squares
thus formed peached, apricot and
cherry trees will be planted.
As soon as the trees begin bearing
Mr.. Wood intends TO build a large
building for winter storage. Hi
scheme is to make the storage
Building combination of a granary
and a place for the fruit he may wish
to hold over until spring. He will
have it arranged so that when his
fruit is placed in it ample ventila'
ton can be provided
This year he expects to plant
large Patch of melons. He has some
IDEAS of his own in regard to grow
ing them, of which the principal one
is that melons can be produced ir
the Payette valley several week!
earlier than they are now being pro
duccd. It will require considerabl;
more work, but he believes the re
turns will fully justify it. Next weel
he intends to plant his melcn seeI
in a hot bed and he will force then
) as rapidly as IL will be possible to dt
so.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
INTEREST
INCREASING
Great Interest Shown in the
Biz Piano Sale,

One more beautiful piano has gone
to a Pendleton home to make the
home happy and help educate the
girls. This big sale of Eilers is going
to prove big success and no wonder,
for the prices and terms on the pianos
being sold are bound to attract GUS
toners. One beautiful Kimball was
disposed of last night. Any one who
misses this opportunity to secure
fine piano will always regret 1t. Do
not let anyone talk you out of coming
down and at least convincing yourself
that this Is the opoprtune time to
purchase. Everything we have in the
house will be sold at greatly reduced
prices and on greatly reduced terms.
Your child needs a piano. You have
promised 1t to her. Why not buy now?
You cannot afford to overlook this
opportunity, only 2S more days in
which to purchase. You had better
select the piano now while our stock
Is so beautiful and complete.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
THE TRAITORS GATE.

One Of the four entrances to the
tower Of London, this grim and an
Client gate, outside the deep moat
drained in the year 1s43, is rich in
historical interest.
Wi'h the Iron gate and the Water
gate, 1t stands on tho Thames side
Of the great keep. Dark and shad-
owy to day, as through the ages, It re-
calls TO memory the saddest hap
penings Of history.
Traitors entered here, and with
the swift lock-click of the great dou-
BILE portal, hope waned. Lady Jane
Grey Sir Walter Raleigh, brilliant
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-13
THE HOPE OF PENDLETON.

II the Umatilla river were running
through one of the New England
states it would be thickly studded
from end to end with manufacturing
enterprises.
Between Bingham Springs and
Pendleton, distance of 81 miles, the
fall of the river is over S5 feet per
mile or a total of 700 feet in that
distance. q.
Above Bingham Springs for Is
miles the fall is much heavier and
large number of excellent power sites
exist. Sufficient power could be gen.
Grated on the river between this city
and the head of the river to build up
manufacturing center equal to any
in New England, if capital could be
induced to take hold of the waiting
opportunities here.
This magnificent stream flows
through the finest wheat and wool
section in the world. Its tributary ter
ritory is absolutely without a peer as
a producer of raw material and yet
but little of it-an insignificant
amount. is manufactured here.
Instead of having one of the small
est wooden mills in the state, Pendle-
ton should have the largest Instead
of two Touring mills, there should be
half a dozen here, as the market for
flour is absolutely beyond the capac-
ity of the present number of mills on
the coast. Instead of shipping in fin
ished structural iron and building ma
terial she should be shipping out
large quantities.
THE BEST INVESTMENT THE
CITY COULD MAKE, IN THE oPIN-
ION OF THE EAST oREGoNIAN, IN
WAY OF DEVELOPING THE CoUN-
TRY, woSLD BE TO PAY SOME
SUBSTANTIAL, TRUSTWORTHY
CITIZEN FOR A YEARS WORK
AMONG EASTERN CAPITALISTS
TALKING OF THE OPPORTUNITIES
IN THIS CITY.
Pendleton needs and must have
pay roll. The opportunity for manu-
featuring establishments is here and II
capital were made to know the extent
and character of these opportunities,
II would be but short time until
all the available raw material produc-
ed in the county could be manufactur-
ed into finished products and Pendle-
ton would be one Of the chief export
ing points on the coast.
1t may seem tiresome to some, for
the newspapers to be talking Of these
subjects continually, but how else are
we TO build up the city? The farm
ing lands are being concentrated into
fewer hands each year, the price Of
farming land Is almost prohibitive, on
account Of its excellent quality and
the excellence Of the climate and crop
conditions. We cannot force the large
holders to sell to homeseekers, and
sc the only hope Of increased settle
ment and increased business is in the
establishment Of manufacturing plants
and in the development of the arid
lands. al
With so many homeseekers and cap
italists seeking locations in the west
II seems that Pendleton should receive
her share. II the facts about this
country were known in the east Il
would be but short time until cap
ital turned this way.