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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

the building and the work will be
started this month. w. d. Wood.
president Of the Seattle Trustee COM
pany. ]. B. Melkle and A. L. Hawley.
president and vice-presldent respect
lively of the Trustee company OF
Portland, are in conference In this
city today and during the week a
meeting for the organization will be
held.
The department store building,
equipment and ground on the PEN
noyer block. for lease to Olds. Wort
man & King, will cost In excess OF
$l,0O0O0O. The company more than
a year ago secured a lease on the
block at a rental Of $500 per month
for q period OF so years,
The construction Of the new build
Ing will require year and a half.
Should the building be commenced
this month. 1t would not be ready for
occupancy by the big department
store before January Of 1910.
The building will cost between
100000 and $500, 900, and the equip
ment will represent S250,O0O more
This, with the ground value will
make the entire plant represent con-
siderably more than 100000 The
store is expected to be one OF the
mercantile marvels OF the country.
The best ideas from all department
stores in America have been gath
cred and are embraced in the plans
of construction and equipment
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
ROADS WONT HELP FAIR.
Washington Companies VIII Run No
Special Trains.

Washington Companies VIII Run No
Special Trains.
No special trains will be run into
North Yakima this year to the state
fair says the Yakima Republic.
There will be no excursions from any
special points. The railroad charge
to North Yakima for the fair will be
a fare and a third. This will be good
on all trains and as a consequence the
state fair management will make no
effort to run special excursion trains
The Northern Pacific railroad declines
absolutely, to give better rate than
that named above.
Last year a single fare, or one way
price, was charged for the round trip
during the fair week to visitors to
this town from any part of the state
and the fair management was obliged
to make guarantee of a $500 busl-
ness for the company. The previous
year the company gave a $3.50 rate
from Seattle and Tacoma, the ticket
carrying with 1t a 50-cent admission
to the fair grounds. In that instance
a guarantee of $1,000 was made to the
railroad company.
The lowest rate the railroad au-
thorities will consider this year is that
of fare and third, and It is the un-
derstanding of the state fair manage
ment that the refusal to go any better
in the interests OF the show Ia hased
on a general agreement between all
the railroads doing business within
the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
FOR ILLEGAL FENCING.
Three Suits Against Big Stock Com
panles of Oregon.

The government has filed criminal
suits in Portland against three cor
porations and several individuals
charging them with having unlawful
ly fenced and maintained fences en-
closing more than 1000 acres of Ore
gon land illegally.
The principal corporation mention
ed in the complaints is the William
Hanley company of which Harry L.
Corbett of Portland Use secretary and
treasurer. It is claimed that this con-
Germ has more than $4,000 acres OF
land in Harney county enclosed by
fences which 1t has been maintaining
for years.
The officials of the Pacific Live
stock company, which is charged with
enclosing $4,000 acres of government
land, are Henry Miller OF San Fran
cisco, president; c. v. Merritt, Sec
retary, and John Gilchrist. man
ager This tract lies in Malheur
county.
In the suits against the American
Livestock company Edwin B. Hill Is
also mentioned as a defendant
All told. five suits were filed by
DR.. McCourt. Three of these were
against the corporations and the 9TH
er two against Elijah and Roy T,
Oliver. The land that is claimed they
have illegally fenced is in Union
county
John F. and Ralph o. Smith are
named as the defendants in the other
case, the land in question being in
Baker county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

wheat for this year and last, amount.
Ing to 10000 bushels, has been
bought by an eastern man. with the
exception Of about 10000 bushels re-
served for supplying the farmers in
Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Kansas,
allowing each farmer no more than
one bushel. The entire crop is in the
hands of Adams, its discoverer, who
is selling it at $40 a bushel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
HOW TO TELL
FRESH CHICKENS
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
GIVES TIPS TO HOUSEWIVES
statements of Cold Storage Men That
.cwls Are just as Good After Two
Three Years on Ice Are Refuted
Some Rules TO BE Observed.

What American housewife Is able to
tell cold-storage chicken from a
fresh one? How many American
households regularly eat fresh"
chicken that is only "fresh" in its re-
cent resurrection from the secluslon
of two or three years in the refrlger-
ator of the storage company.
1t has long been the boast of the
cold-storage men that fowls are Just
as desirable after two or three years
icing as on the day they are killed.
This claim IS strenuously combatted
in report made by the department
Of agriculture. One object of the re-
port is to furnish a graphic guide to
chicken purchasers, so that they may
be able to tell the fresh chicken from
the cold-stoEage article.
When you see a chicken, the mus
cles of which are so drawn as to cause
it to hang, for instance, with the head
doubled up; when the skin is mottled
with a greenish tint; when there is a
sharp, although not putrefying odor;
when the comb and gills are nearly
dried up; when the skin is so brittle
over the breast bone and at the leg
joints as to crack when rubbed-that
is the fowl to beware of as If it were
the plague. 1t is the three-year-old
cold-storage fowl.
The fresh killed chicken. continues
the report has a clean, pale soft yell
low skin, translucent enough to show
salmon pink flesh beneath, and flexi-
ble-there are no signs of reddish or
greenish blotches; the comb and gills
are a brilliant red and the feather
papillae distinct because of their ele-
vatiun above the skin, although OF
the same color. When drawn II Is ex-
ceedingly easy to tell the fresh chick
en- from the cold-storage fowl: the
flesh and muscles of the former are
a salmon pink in color and the inter-
ior organs have an unmistakable
bloom; the two-year-old or three
year-old chicken has none of that
tint on the muscles and skin. The
skin itself is leathery; there are red
rust spots, and perhaps green
blotches; the body is covered with ir-
regular hollows and distended Jumps.
where watery slime or gas collects
The feather papillae have darkened
Exposure to the air for a few hours
produces a characteristic odor ap-
preaching that Of putrid flesh.
The department of agriculture's ex,
pert thus sums up:
THE dictum of the warehouse men
that there is no change in cold-stor-
age poultry and that it may be kept
for an indefinite period cannot be ac-
cepted in its entirety Both micro
scopic study and taste Of the cooked
fowl confirm the fact that degenera-
ton does take place.
1T seems most desirable that a
careful study should be made to de-
tormine whether such alterations as
have been noted affect the appearance
and hlstologlcal integrity Of the flesh
only or whether, as has been as
serted by some, the consumption of
poultry after long periods Of cold
storage, is not responsible for some
Of the obscure intestinal disorders
disorders and the imperfect metabol.
ism from which modern humanity,
especially the dwelers in large cities,
are SO apt to suffer"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
SCIENCE PREVENTS 6ALpNEss.
The Fatal Germ and It's Remedy Now
Facts Of Science.

II is the rarest thing In the world for
a man to be necessarily bald. No man
whose hair is not dead at the roots, need
be bald II he will use Newbro's Herpi.
eide. the new scalp antiseptic. Herpl-
eide destroys the germ that cuts the hair
off at the root; and cleans the scalp Of
dandrufr and leaves 1t In a perfectly
healthy condition. Mr.. Alannelt, in tho
Maryland Block. Butte. Mont, was on
tlrely bald. In less than month Herpi-
eide had removed the enemies Of hair
growth. and nature did its work by COY.
ering his head with thick hair an incl
long, and in. six weeks he had q normtl
suit Of hair. Sold by leading d5ucaistl.
Send 1Oc. in stamps for sample 70 TIL
Herpicide Co.. Detroit. Mich.
Two sizes-60 cents and S1.00.
a. O. Koeppen q Bros
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
MlNLESs CLUB \ MENACE.
Stork Brings Only Female Children
to Members.

st. Louis, Aug. 6.--Alton men may
be forced to appeal to President
Roosevelt to WELD the big stick in
breaking up the Manless club. which
promises to become a national men,
ace and reduce the visible supply Of
voters to the vanishing point.
The Manless club was formed three
years ago in Alton, the charter MEM
bers being IA prominent women Of
the town, all married. Since that
time eight of the members have been
visited by the stork, and in every
instance the bird has left baby
girl.
Branches of the club have been or
ganized in many cities and in states
as far as Colorado and California. 1t
is alleged that among the members of
these subordinate lodges the stork is
just as partial to female children and
it is feared that If the idea is carried
further posterlty will consist of the
gentle sex only.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
PORTLAND's MAMMOTH STORE
Million Dollar Department Store Is TO
Be Erected,

The million dollar department store
proposition Of the Trustee company
of Portland on the Pennoyer block is
about to crystallze into the begin
ming of construction work, says the
oregon Daily Journal.
The Trustee company has nearly
completed arrangements to commence
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
Gold Nuggets.

j. E. Williams is in the city from
his Snake river placer at the mouth
of Powder river says the Baker City
Democrat.
He is displaying a number OF gold
nuggets which are good for the eyes,
The gentleman is operating with
pipe and will work considerable good
ground this season. Mr.. Williams
says the railroad company Is laying
rails about nine miles below Hunting
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
WHAT is A PIGEON?
Superior Court Of Massachusetts VIII
BE Called upon TO Settle Question.

superior COuft OF mhSsaCnuSettS VIII
BE Called upon to Settle Question.
Boston Aug. 6.--Is a pigeon a
fowl or a bird? This Is a question
which the superior court will be
called upon to decide at future ses-
sion. Fanciers all over the country
have become interested, and It Is
will be required to settle the prob
lem.
The controversy grows out of a
suit brought by John and w. G..
Erwin Of Easton against F. Sherwood
Keith, a neighbor, who is a pigeon
fancier It was alleged by the Err
wins that certain fowls" owned by
Keith did great damage to their
property. A verdict in favor OF the
plaintiffs was given. Now Keith has
taken the matter to the superior
court, baslng his appeal on the tech
nical ground that a pigeon is not a
fowl" as set forth in the complaint.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

4 short time ago there was pub
lished in this paper an account of a
wonderful wheat alleged to have been
discovered by a Jplietta, Idaho farm
er. says the Boise Capital News.
From the following taken from a Fort
Collins, Colo, special dispatch to the
Denver News, it appears that there is
at least doubt about the honesty Of
the Idaho farmers claims, the Colo
rado agricultural college branding it
unqualifiedly a fraud. The Denver
papers article follows:
Fort Collins, Colo, July 2S.-That
Abraham Adams, of Julietta, Idaho,
has revived the swindle Of the seven
headed Egyptian wonder wheat found
in the tomb of the Pharaohs by an
archaeologlst with agronomistic lean
ings some years ago, is the opinion Of
the professors Of Colorado Agricultu
raj college who have just announced
the result of a test of the famous 200
bushel wheat known to the scientific
world for the last six months as the
Alaska.
In the opinion Of the college ex-
perts, the humble Idaho farmer either
is sadly mistaken OF ne has purposely
set out to deceive thousands Of farm
ers into the belief that the Rocky
mountain country is to become the
granary of the world. The basis Of
this is a wheat variety which Adams
claims excels all worlds records by
the marvellous increase Of 400 to 500
per cent above the present maximum
yield.
Professors Skeptical.
The college secured from a Denver
man last spring a small quantity of
the Alaska seed. Professors w. H.
OHn and Fritz Knorr heard the yarn
of a 2O0-bushel to the acre yield with
some doubt However, they decided
to plant the seed. Professor Knorr
thought he saw a similarity between
the Alaska and the seven-headed won
der wheat which has been grown in
LlllH touHtly lOI SOhlc ySo4S
He planted the two varieties side by
side. Now that both crops have about
matured, he finds that his theory is
right. Even the most able expert is
unable to tell which is seven-headed
wonder and which is the Alaska.
Someone is busy circulating the
story Of Adams alleged discovery,
which reads like a romance from the
Klondyke and is being published in
agricultural papers all over the coun-
try The following is an extract from
one Of the alluring statements:
Mr.. Adams in 1904 succeeded in
getting one single head Of wheat that
satisfied him Of discovery. This one
head Of wheat he planted in the fall Of
that year and in the following sum-
mer procured seven pounds Of the
wheat This seven pounds he plant |
ed in the spring Of 1906 and he secur-
ed from the seven pounds 1545 |
pounds.
Here was a startling yield at the !
ratio Of 222 bushels to the acre. This !
seed was planted in the fall for win
ter wheat, but bad weather and hail |
during the summer destroyed all the |
fields Of ordinary wheat so they were |
not III to harvest, yet the new wheat
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

The pioneers Of the Inland Empire
will meet in Walla Walla Thursday in
the eighth annual gathering Of the
association. \ big dinner will be
served to the pioneers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
IDAHO FARMER BRANDED A FRAUD

, left standing crushed out $4,000
pounds.
statements Show That It's Wonder
full"
From these statements it is easy to
figure what this wonderful wheat is,
because it is impervious to frost and
also to light hail, and because it par
TALLY withstands the heaviest hail.
Mr.. Adams named his wheat the Alas
, ka to mark its wonderful sturdiness.
But the wonderful things were yet
to come. On a government station
test it was found that this wonderful
wheat was hard wheat. 1t is there
fore a wheat that succeeds equally
well as winter or spring wheat, and
in both paintings will grade No.
hard.
This means an absolute revolution
in wheat raising. 1t means that this
year, if Alaska wheat could have been
planted. instead of an estimated
American crop of 500, 900, 600 bushels,
America would raise for the world
close ont6 5000, 100000 bushels. When
this is realized the wealth that Alas
ka has given in gold pales into inslg-
nificance by the side of what the
farmers will be able to lay up in
wealth for the country"
The publication of such stories in
agricultural journals has aroused
great excitement in all wheat-raisins
sections, and particularly in the Rocky
mountain country. Hundreds of farm
ers wanted the seed, and the press
agent notices that are now being cir
culated contain the address Of the
discoverer.
The seven-headed wonder wheat, Of
which the Alaska is an exact dupli-
cate, is none other than the Egyptian,
which came upon the market by some
mysterious means five or six years
ago. The discoverer claims to have
gotten the seed from the ancient
Egyptian tomb, and it was generally
believed among the gullible that the
wheat was the progeny of the grain
grown in the seven fat years during
Joseph's time.
Marvellous Claims.
Marvellous claims were made for
the wheat, and thousands of bushels
of seed were sown, the swindler re-
ceiving a fabulous price per pound.
When the crop was harvested the va
riety proved to yield only little
above the average, because of the size
Of the head, but it graded No. quail
ity, and the millers would not buy it.
The state department station here
has had some of this wheat as a curl
osity, and the fact that it was kept on
hand resulted in the discovery that 1t
was an exact duplicate of the Alaska.
Hasley NJ. Rhodes, 1925 Wyandotte
street, field agent of the bureau Of
statistics in the department of agrl-
culture, sent the sample of the wheat
to the agricultural college at Fort
Collins, sending some at the same
time to the department Of agriculture
at Washington.
Rhodes learned of the wheat in con-
nection with his government work,
and investigated the story Of It's de-
velopment. He visited Adams and
talked with him about 1t, finally pur-
chasing a small amount He has sown
some Of 1t in his back yard and de-
clares that he believes from its pres
ent appearance that it will produce
200 times as much as he planted.
Rhodes says he knows nothing Of
the quality Of the wheat, further than
what he could tell from examining
that he bought. He says he believes
it will test about equal with ordinary
wheats.
Rhodes says he has learned from
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Co.,. -=Q[%@akx&sM~<S~ "a

betting ring to take a peek at the prices.
There in the middle of the betting ring
that gay clip who had tackled me only a
few minutes before had friend of his
pinned against the stanchion, and, as I
passed. l overheard him saying some
thing like this to the friend:
'Pipesky. Moral. l was in the pad
dock. only minute ago. and l got the
straight stuff from Johnny Blank nam
ing me. Johnny's an old sidekicker of
mine-used to go on bats together around
Washington-and Johnny. he told me that
the race was in. Said for me to go far as
I liked. Couldn't lose. And any time
Johnny tells me thing like that. why
81 took that smudge by the collar of his
coat and yanked him around-couldn't
help it.
1--we cut the trail of whole acre of
liars in my time, Bud I said to him. but
you've got 'em all burned to the ground
and their ashes put away in sealed jars.
Take it all in ALL you are about the thun-
deringest liar that ever l heard, and
law. stop y'r kiddin'. Johnny the
mad wag broke in OH me. merrily, right
there. Come on and have a little drink
for yourself
''Oh. l just had to turn around and
walk away again. Who could stack up
against such an unbustable bunch of
serenity as all that?
at would be the sad day for the stable
hands and the kids in sweaters. though,
If ever they adopted a rule shutting the
general public from the paddocks. You
see, all they've got to do is to stand still
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privately He looked delighted at that,
and said. L was sure you'd see the thing
the right way, old boy-dead sure of IT..
II walked him out of the paddock and
smack to the main gate. he imagining, l
suppose. that I was conducting him to
some secluded nook outside the grounds
where we could have that buzz At the
main gate I took him by the two
shoulders from the rear. whispered some
thing important in his ear. gave him only
one of the boots where | should have
handed him both of them. and then I
came away from there. just letting the
people at the gate think what they had
in mind to think. 1 know what I was
thinking
AT the Pimlico spring meeting one of
these wedge-ins gayly boned me for the
straight junk. as he called it. about a
mare that I was going to saddle for a
stake race that afternoon.
~ know that you haven't the advan-
tage of my acquaintance. was his larky
way of coming at me, but what's the diff
between good felers? Are you out for ii
with that mare today? Is she the mel
ons? Aw, come on, now, and slip it to
me right. ] amt such bad people.
sure want to get the live one in that
race
Il was SO keen to turn upon that mad
wag and pump the hot lava into him that
my entire chest was throbbing like the
works of a motor boat. l never give my
self rein when 1 feel that way, and SO
walked away.
Five minutes later I strolled into the
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and chew a straw and look owlish. ana
the paddock providers are Just naturally
bound to walk up to them and hand
'em money.
There may be funnier gags in life
than this. but I never happened to run
into funnier ones. A snipe Of an exercise
boy in a red and green sweater will be
leaning against the fence Eliminating on
a piece Of hay, when one of these foxy
paddock visitors will edge over to him
and give him the deep and dark poke in
the ribs. At the same time he'll slip the
stable kid note-a ten or a twenty.
sometimes even more. The stable hands
have learned to control their features
and to look deadly solemn when this thing
happens. although they really ache 10
laugh aloud.
Hey. son. put us hep will your the
crafty one says to the snipe OF q kid In
a sweater. and then the boy uncoils
little bunch of patter. the gist Of which
is that such and such a horse is already
in. his number hung out and the money
paid off on him.
Git out, is that so?' says the note slip
per- and then he all but breaks the arms
of a whole lot Of men rushing to the bet
ting ring to get his kale down on that
one.
and this little game will go on just as
long as idiots wearing the clothes and
hats and shoes Of grown-up men accept
the sweater and the STRENGTHENING habit
as badges and symbols OF a prophetic
knowledge of what is going to happen in
a horse race"
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them for the manufacturing of a pro-
longed carnival.
You know. for example. what the New
Year thing has come to be over in these
parts. 1t has come to be one stupendous,
colossal, all-hands- around, Billy be-
whanged drunk lasting about one week or
more. and taking in, in its various rami-
fications and tentacleS about nine tenths
of this population, the high and the low.
IL is not one of those invisible, under
cover, secretive. s-get-out-o of sight
DRINKS. but gigantic. in plain sight,
glorified and glad of it's drunk, right in
the presence of the audience. with the
audience drunk. too. and everybody de-
lighted. or protesting to be. until it's all
over and the heads begin to clang
their sad dead-march cymbal notes
Well, the election business of quite re-
cent years has come to be the other great
legitimate opportunity for drunken New
to view with alarm" or to point with
disdain" or anything like that, his part
being simply that of a chronicler and
humble manipulation of the machinery of
the moving picture show. But it has got
to be said that. beginning last Saturday
afternoon. New York got itself into a
state OF souse that made even the habit
VA Indians and scouts and such like sit
right up In straight position and take
visual observations 1t was q sort Of
New York New Year drunk plus and
additionally and with trimmings. and it
was all under cover of a beautiful i'm
munity which seems to have grown up
over here for DRINKS which take in any
sizable part of the population That is
10 say, the DRINKS could and did wallop