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The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
Big Picnic.

On July 5, there will be a big picnic and family spread dinner at the Tom Morris mill on Big Fork on the Mt. Ida road. Thert will be speakers, smusements of all kinds, including some foot races. Bring your baskets and come have a good time. l04 II w3t
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
For Sale.

One Broom and two o,I", M houses; we'll improved ana g,, ,.s. titul places bringing goo,,O %, ,1,,p and 9 nice lots. Will sen s,I ssl. Also one 4.room house lu'1 7. M with everything that 2 s,sa needs, Tor rent. Very 1us 'ss < right party. Sam osOslg,',s oa N roundhouse.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
Kansas Calls far Ma

Topeka June 22.-T. B. Gerow. al. rector of the state free employment bureau, wants more harvest laborers. The wheat growers in the southern part of the state are calling for more men and they want them at once mus Tar only a few men have aFailed themselves of the low rates on the railroads to the harvest fields About loo have been sent from this eity and only a few more than that rom the agency in Kansas City
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
Amerioan Rohhed h pa..a

Paris, June 21.- During dinner Wednesday night skillful burglars entered the sleeping apartment of Mrs Otto steffens, an American in the residence once occupied by the late Dr. Evans. the dentist. al 43 Avenue of the Bois de Boulogne and succeeded Tn carrying off jewels valued af $50, ooo. There is no clue to the burg lars.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
rhe pes Moines plan of oovernmenI
IustIce Rremer ln I'd.

Washington, June 22.-Justice Da. vid Josiah Brewer celebrated his roth birthday anniversary Thursday in true New England style with fam fly dinner at midday, surrounded hy his wife, children, sister and sons. .lnlsy.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
THE MCKINLEY MEMORIAL.
Plans 6ing Formed for an Imposing Military Pageant at Canton on
 September 16.

Canton, O., June 21.-When the Mo Kiniey mausoleum is dedicated Sep tember 16 not only President Roose. welt, Vice President Fairbanks and other members of the cabinet will be present but it is planned to have an imposing military pageant Gov. liar ris will be asked Monday by a spe- cial committee named by the Me Kinhy Memorial association and by the Canton Memorial Dedication com mittee to order the Ohio national guard to assemble here for the cere- monies. This committee will be ac. companied by Senator Dick who is commander of the Ohio guardsmen. The National Memorial association trustees were in session here Thurs day. A request made by Vice Presi- dent Fairbanks showed that the asso- citation is still s30,000 short of the amount desired for an endowment fund. Formal action was taken, ac- cepting the offer of Mrs. c. Barber, sister of Mrs. Mckinley, to protect to the association the Mckinley home and furnishings intact providing it can be purchased from the heirs of the late president and this is now prac- tically assured
 The Des Moines Plan of Government.
 Des Moines, June 22.--By an over whelming majority the citizens of Des Moines Thursday adopted what is known as the Des Moines plan of government. a modification of the commission form of government adopted some years ago in Galveston, Tex. The new plan provides for an elimination of the ward system and the election by the city as a whole of five commissioners. all of whom shall give their entire time to city affairs, one as mayor and the other four as heads of departments All other of ficers are made asOointive.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
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Salena' Kan, June 22.--Beeause nis mother required him to dig n cel'af Charles Mckinney. 14 years ola. committed suicide Thursday by us'pg load es shot into hls heart
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
LAND CONVENTION ENDS
Resolutions Adopted Were Not Near so Radical as Had Been
 Expected.
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

After Lengthy Argument in Support of the Governments Policy Secre- tary Garfield Read Statement From the Executive Declaring His
 Attitude Had Been Misrepresented
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
smiths Sure Kidney Cure.

The only guaranted kidney remedy. Buy it-try it-it costs you nothing if it fails. Price 50 cents at Jackson nrug Co. Nov.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-06-27
The onIy 0uaranteeiK kidney cure

is Smiths Sure Kidney Cure. Your druggists will refund your money if after taking one bottle you are not satisfied with results 50 cents hy Jackson Drug Co, Nov |
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

Nobody gifted with seil4 &? ~
NOR can fail to he diverted rs ,..
Puck like manner in which luck maho
and unmalSes regulations for bUsiuc,'-
ability" says Will Payne in Every
body's. Years ago a gentleman nameG
Jennings was an exten5lr> n%Ler ot
downtown real estate il lA,r.. %. AZ
was the first, l believe, to Gttt.J.l ~.
large scale the modern syste-l Of tlr
ninety-nine year lease. whereby NE
owner insures to himself and his heir,
for a century an absolutely fixed rent.
al, free and clear Of all charges. After
Mr.. Jennings had leased lot of his
lands for ninety-nine years a depyes.
sion came on. Other peoples incomes
were curtailed, but his was stable
What foresight said the town. What
sagacityp What superb business judg'
mentv Mr.. Jennings views on the
business situation and outlook were
eagerly sought. The depression passed
Realty prices advanced immensely
The Jennings lots could have beer
leased at twice the rental named In
the old indenture. The town shook it:
head sympathetically over poor Mr.
Jennings deplorable shortsightedness.'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Woes of a Drummer.

"I'm just a little discouraged with
my work." said the tall New York
boy who has started out on the road.
IT was making my second trip west
when l met an old drummer who had
been on the road for more than thirty
years. He sat with grip between his
knees and talked to me.
"'Chuck 1t, my boy he said. If
there is anything else in the world
you can do, do 1t. Look at my gray
hairs. don't know what 1t Is to have
home. For thirty years have seen
my wife about once in five weeks. |
know that I've wife and children in
a fat in New York, but that's all do
know about them. The children have
grown up and married, but I have not
had time to attend their weddings, My
wife has grown gray, too, but she has
had the best Of It, She has had a
home and the children. If there is
anything else in the world you can do,
my boy he repeated, quit drumming
and do it,"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Curious BIunders.

Some remarkable mistakes in me-
MORALS have totally escaped notice un.
til 1t was too late to rectify them. The
spurs on the boots Of Cromwell's
statue at Westminster abbey, London,
are the most interesting feature Of the
monument, although they generally
get no attention at all from slghtseers.
They are worn upside down. In a
painted window on the staircase which
leads from the floor Of Westminster
palace to the committee rooms an in
scription on a sword welded by the
"Black Prince" has the words "Prince
Of Wales" Again, in the fresco de-
plcting the embarkation Of the pilgrim
fathers in the corridor leading from the
outer lobby at st. Stephens to the
house of lords the Mayflower is shown
to be hoisting the union Jack, flag
which did not come into existence un-
til $50 years after the days Of the his
torie Mayfiower.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

NORTHWEST NEWS.
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All the drug stores of Butte, Mont,
closed at noon on June /, all the
clergs going on a strike for an in
crease Of pay from 500 to $125 per
month.
A train Of 90 carloads of bananas
billed to Seattle wholesaler, reach
ed Spokane on June l after Just
seven and one-half days from Mobile,
Alabama.
Tom Reynolds. an early resident of
Canyon City, who has been for sew
eral years an inmate of the Grant
county poor farm, has been adjudged
insane and been taken to the asy-
lum.
The 4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Jacobs of Lewiston, was
badly though not fatally burned by
trash fire which the child himself
started with matches in the back
yard.
The stone liquor cellar under the
rear end of Fred Mosier's saloon at
Paulina, Crook county, was recently
dynamited, presumably by enemies
OF Mosier, who recently opened the
saloon.
At Yakima, Mrs. Sarah May Walk
~ was recently granted a divorce
from John Alexander Walker, a for
mer Presbyterian minister and doc
tor, on the grounds of drunkenness
and cruelty.
James Paul, aged 20 years, was
drowned in the John Day at Spray
n few days ago. He Is survived by
his wife, who is a daughter of Samuel
Hughes, a Heppner merchant. and by
several brothers and sisters In Grant
and Morrow counties.
Guy Fisher, young man en- route
from Oxford, Idaho, to Soda Springs
was caught between the bumpers OF
a passenger train at American Fall:
and terribly jammed across the hips
He was taken to a Pocatello hospital
where he may recover, though 1t II
not likely.
| Ralph E. Harris, machinist o.
Pocatello, Idaho, claims to be the
first man outside of France to ride
n bicycle. The vehicle was made un'
der his directions from plans SEN
him from Paris. while Harris wa'
| working as a machinisr in Macomb
ILL.,, 40 years aggo.
At Ellensburg, Wash. Frank Sisle
switchman in the Northern Pacifi,
which necessitated the amputatior
OF his left leg. The unfortunate mar
in previous accident lost a left arm
Sisle was on engine No. 1899 ant
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
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GENLRAL NEWS.
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At Tihtic, Utah, William Pail, su-
perintendent of the Lower Mann
moth mine, was instantly killed by
putting his hand on a power trans
mission wire while showing a party
Of visitors through the mine.
The war department will soon
award the contract for placing 10000
headstones over the hitherto un-
marked graves of confederate soldiers
who died in federal prisons and hos
pitals during the civil war.
Southeastern Texas, especially the
ReaumCnt region, is suffering from
excessive rains, and the sleight slope
of the district toward the sea is in
sufficient to carry it off until the
standing water has been disastrous to
all interests.
Mrs. Edna Humelhagen, ~ years
of age, was shot to death at Freeport,
ILL.,, by Herbert F.. Springer, IS years
old, of Rockford. ILL.,, who chased
Mrs. Humelhagen through crowded
streets, thinking she was another wo-
man who, he said "had thrown him
over"
Four thousand. six hundred eighty
eight more immigrants left Ireland
during 1906 than during 1905. OF
this number nearly 10 per cent were.
as has always been the case. young
been between IS and 25. During the
week ending May-31 1903 Irish en-
harked at Queensland for America.
While being taken to the district
attorneys office at Los Angeles in
the company CT two officials of the
Pacific Screen company, by whom he
| was charged with the embeZzlement
of $4,000, Thomas Motion, a collector.
drew pistol and shot himself in the
forehead, inflicting a fatal wound.
At Oakdale, Pa, class of 12 was
graduated from the high school this
spring. Strictly on his merits Ray
Wooteu, a negro and,son of barber,
was made valedictorian. Whereat
seven of the class baked and did not
take part in the commencement ex-
crcises and Furthermore will not ac-
cept their diplomas.
Methodist papers have criticized
DIR. Levi Gilbert, who in his book
| "The Hereafter and Heaven" sug-
gests that prayers may be offered for
the pious dead, for their progress in
the heavenly lfe." Catholic papers
see in this speculation an indication
that "the Methodists are returning to
the older standards of faith"
Separated the length of an ordi.
nary life fme, six brothers recently
saw each other for the first time In
SO years and since leaving home in
early manhood, when they met al
Windsor, ontario. at the residence OF
w. c. Donaldson, one of their num-
ber. The gathering was naturally
unique. Mr.. Donaldson was the
"baby" at 50, and the oldest of the
brothers was so.
The two daughters of Walter A
Schiller, cigar maker of New Yorl
city, Marion, aged 10; and Ruth, ager
IA, and two servants Marie Dilton ant
Tilly Monthon, were burned to deatl
, in fire which destroyed the hand
some residence of Jacob Rothschild
which Mr.. Schiller had rented. Boil
parents of the Schiller children wer
seriously burned while trying to res
cue their children.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
PENOLETON IS URGED TO CLEAN up

how they have cleaned house in Wal
la Walla. Isn't property increasing
in value there. See what Spokane is
doing in this respect, and even the
little mining towns of Idaho are en-
forcing the law.
We know the officials of Pemdle-
ten to be good, reliable business men,
but we believe the town is entitled to
and should demand a highter moral
standard. There are smaller towns
in tho county that are striving to
improve their moral conditions, byt
all the effort is made doubly hard
by the example of Pendleton.
To use slang phrase. we do not
wish ta knock" Pendleton; it is
with the hest of motives that we take
up the subject. Now, will Pendle-
ton do her duty? Though there are
numerous question marks in this ar
ticle, we don't require of the editor
necessarily all answer in detail.
WHEAT GROWER.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Osteopathy
How the Medical Men Would Check
It's Growth.

The Seventh District Medical Soci-
ETY. Of Iowa, meeting recently at nes
Noines, went in to an extended and
very serious discussion of ways and
means Of stopping the progress OF
osteopathy. There is no way on
earth, gentlemen, as your past efforts
have proven.
One Of the learned doctors sug-
gested that they employ massuers, as
serting that this would keep people
from going to the osteopath. By
which the doctor evinced how little
he knows Of osteopathy, and mas
sage; or, in he knows, expects to
hoodwink and deceive the public.
This latter policy is an old game and
is rapidly losing its force as people
become educated to osteopa'hy. In
Iowa It is certain the n. Ds. are
wasting their powder, for Iowa is the
second strongest osteopathlc state
Many wiser NJ Ds. have investigated
and discovered the truth that the
new science is really distinct and by
Tar the most advanced system OF
healing have studied in osteopathic
colleges, and discarded medicine en-
tirely. Can stronger testimony be
given for osteopathy7
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

The following pertinent communi-
cation which was sent from Athena
for publication in Fendleton papers,
is 4 genuine expression of public
sentiment from good citizens of
Cmatilla county who are friends of
Pendleton and desire IL see her the
home and school town of the inland
empire.
The communication is as follows:
athena, June 3.-(To the Editor.)
When talking about Pendeton to
strangers the writer takes pride in
calling attention to her advantages in
natural location, her schools, her
magnificent church buildings, her
banking and mercantile establish
ment., her hotels, her mills, her paw
ed streets and her push and energy;
hut has Pendleton done all this with
in herself?
Has she not been backed by one of
The grandest countries in many re-
spects on the face of the earth?.
Therefore we believe Pendleton owes
II to herself, the surrounding coun-
Try and neighboring towns to clear
up the old, suffocating, pioneer sport
ing atmosphere that has dominated
the city for years and elevate her
moral standard.
Now, while gambling is not con-
dunted openly, prominent men among
you are frequently in the courts in
connection with some gambling case
and wild stories of large winnings are
continually afloat and are listened to
to the detriment of the young man.
hood Of the country.
Are not such offenses looked upon
too much in the light of joke by
men there today that have been with
you for years and were never known
TO do anything hut gamble?
lid your city authorities ever Or
der cleaning up? Did anybody ever
hear of tinhorn gamblers stealing
bicycles with which to escape the
ETath of the Pendleton officials, like
was reported to have been done in Il
neighboring city,
Are not your 81 saloons, or one fer
every 200 of your population, allow
ed TO open early Sunday afternoon in
time to catch the carloads of our
ynung men who are induced to at
tend your Sunday ball games, and
give the hired help Of the country an
opportunity to ill up on Pendleton
bone for Monday morning, to the
detriment of the industries that have
huilt you up?
The moral conditions in Pendle-
ton were discussed, we believe, to
her detrirnent during the session of
the last legislature when the PROPOSE
tion to move the normal school from
Weston to Pendleton came up. Not
only In eastern Oregon, but in Salem
the matter was talked, and again
when your committees were soliciting
financial support for your academy.
Facts Are Apparent.
N'w. is this picture overdrawn? ?
Are these conditions good for Pendle-
ton" Do they look good to people
limiting for a place to school their
ehildren' Is property increasing in
value or even holding its own? See
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Facts Are Apparent.

Nnw, is THIS picture overdrawnY
Are these conditions good for Pendle-
ton" Do they look good to people
limiting for place to school their
ehildren' Is property increasing in
value or even holding its own? See
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Pure Food Law Ignored in Idaho.

"The dealers are very careless
about the pure food law" said A. F.
Hit yesterday. "Only about 20 of
them have been interested enough
in 1t to send for bulletins. Then
when we find illegal goods in their
stores they plead Ignorance Of the
law.
~ have been investigating candy
kitchens and soda fountains lately"
he continued, "and with what little
work / have done / know thatthere
are $4,000 worth Of illegal goods
in connection with these in the state.
And this estimate is very conserva-
tive. I find that some soda foun-
tains are using home made syrups
and crushed fruits, etc, which are
ali right, but only small percentage
are doing so."-Boise Statesman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

stepped off his engine and onto the
track as engine 1871 came along.
"The report that the lewiston
Charleston company will soon resume
boring in the old well which was
abandoned four years ago with the
ultimate idea of striking oil is abso-
lutely an untruth," said f. H. Libby,
president of the lewiston Charleston
company WIN asked by a Lewiston
Teller reporter regarding the veracity
of the statement made to that effect.
George Aleck was fined $40 at
Hood River for bootlegging to In
dians, and in default of payment was
committed to jail. The judge prom
ised Aleck that II he or anyone else
was before him again for the same
offense this summer he would soak
each offender 500 for as many times
as the offense might be proven.
F.. Nj Cooksie, a peddler of Illicit
liquors, got in fight at Milwaukee
construction camp In Kittitas coun-
ty, Wash, and was beaten nearly to
death by Is or 20 railroaders. He
was game to the last and his life was
saved by the wholly unexpected but
most fortunate arrival on the scene
Of an officer sent to arrest him for
selling liquor without a license. The
officer had to show his authority
and two revolvers before the rail-
readers would let up on Cooksie, who
is now in hospital as well as under
arrest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
The New Town of Byron.


The new town of Byron was OPEN
ed yesterday in the presence of about
5000 people from Prosser, North
Yakima and other towns, and who
were entertained by the townsite
company with lunch and lemonade.
The Yakima band furnished music
and a very enjoyable day was spent
by the crowd.
All OF the lots put up for sale at
auction, 20 in number, were sold at
good prices and six additional lots
were sold privately. The average
price realized was $3.50 per lot.
building is TO commence right
away and there will be butcher
shop, grocery store, two warehouses
and other business and residence
buildings erected in week or two.
After the business had been done
the band was invited to go to Prosser
and duly accepted and serenaded the
people OF that city. The fun was kept
IN until late in the evening, the vis-
itors from this city returning here
on the last nights train.
w. Z. Combes of Julesburg, Ore
gon, was large purchaser OF prop
erty. Others who bought one or
more lots were A. s. Murphy, j. Pull
lock, La Grande, Oregon Mrs Mes
ley, Mrs. Benson. L. r. Smith and
Messrs. Ressler, Fake, Sparrow, Gust
and Hammersley.-Ya Yakima Republic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

George Burnhan, IT,, former gen
eral counsel of the Mutual Reserve
life Insurance company, who is now
serving term in Sing Sing for grand
larceny Is to have a new trial under
a decision handed down by the ap-
pellate division of the supreme court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03
Notice.

All parties knowing themselves to
be indebted to me, will kindly call
at my office and settle by June goth.
ROBERT FORSTER.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

Extra fancy mountain potatoes, per
cwt., 50. The Peoples Warehouse.
where 1t pays to trade.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-06-03

Lost. ladies' light grey coat, with
white embroidered collar and cuffs.
Finder kindly return to this office.
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-05-24
Bees Faster Than PIGEONS.

1t Is not generally known that bees
are swifter in fight than pigeons-that
is, for short distances. Some years ago
pigeon fancier of Hamme, Westphalia,
laid wager that dozen bees liberat-
ed three miles from their hive would
reach home in less time than a dozen
pigeons. The competitors were given
wing at Rybern, village nearly a
league from Hamme, and the first bee
reached the hive quarter of minute
in advance of the first pigeon. Three
other bees reached the goal before the
second pigeon. The bees We're also
slightly handicapped, having been roll
ed in -four before starting for purpose
Of identification.
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-05-24
GOV. GLENN ON TEMPER
ANCE,

Gov. Glenn delivered a stirring ad-
dress on temperance in the First
Baptist church, Baltimore, recently.
He first discussed the question of
temperance from moral point of
view and then from the business
standpoint In affirming that he
had been consistent on the question
throughout his political career, Gov.
Glenn declared that he would rather
go back to his farm on Dan river,
live in seclusion and die in oblivion
than occupy the highest office in the
gift of the people if it depended on
his ceasing his fight against intem-
perance.
1.-The men high in public esteem, "
he said, who are opposed to the Ii
ceusing of saloons and who do not
fight for temperance in their politi-
cal campaigns are downright cow
ards"
The speaker challenged any man
who argued for saloons on the
grounds that they benefit business"
to argue the matter on the stump
with him.
why" he asked, "if saloons bene-
fit business does every railroad in
the United States refuse to employ
in any branch of its service men who
drink? Why do people refuse to en-
ploy drunken doctors aud drunken
surgeons? Why do great business
firms insist on temperance among
their employees? Why do even the
saloon men demand barkeepers who
do not drink"
In affirming that the saloons do
not Tighten the burden of taxation
the governor declared that in this
country last year 10 times as much
money was spent for liquor as for
education, and more than the COM
bined earnings of all the railroads in
the United States.