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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
THE ELECTRIC LINE MARVEL,

If every member of Pendleton Com
mercial association could be induced
to take a ride on the electric line from
Milton to Wala Walla, now while the
fruit and garden tracts along that line
are at their height, it is safe to say
it would not be two gears before such
a line were running into Pendleton
from perhaps more than one direc-
ton.
The entire distance of 10 miles from
Milton to Walla Walla is now solid
garden and fruit tract. Water has
been turned upon it, orchards have
sprung up, as If by magic, in a few
years. homes are being built or have
been built along the entire distance,
and it is really one of the most de-
hghtful and prosperous communities
on the Pacific coast.
Long distances in Umatilla county,
down the Umatilla river to Umatilla,
through the Hermiston and Echo
country, north toward Helix and the
Columbia river, can be converted into
similar settlements with homes on
small tracts and four or five times
the present amount of traffic availa-
BILE.
Such a line from Pendleton to Wes-
ton and back by way of Wenaha
Springs and Tutuilla would convert
thousands of acres into orchard and
garden tracts and would bring thous-
ands of new settlers into this rich ter
ritory tributary to Pendleton.
Power for such lines is now going
tc waste in the Umatilla river. Rich
fruit land worth from $500 to $1,000
per acre when covered with bearing
orchards is now being used for S25
per acre wheat crops and Pendleton is
simply without the traffic which such
settlement would create.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
MASONRY AND THE WEST.

The excellent oration on the SYM
bols Of Masonry. delivered by Grand
Orator H. W. Scott Of the Oregon
grand lodge. at the recent session in
Portland, recalls the splendid part
which the Masonic order has taken
in the settlement and uplifting of the
Pacific coast.
In many Of the early settlements,
the pioneers organized their Masonic
lodges. even before their churches or
their schools. Half a dozen Masons
in a community scattered perhaps
miles apart, would get together and
scour the country for enough to form
lodge and before anybody was aware
they would be holding sessions in the
upper story Of some humble home.
To the pioneers the Masonic lodge
was practically all the social life that
was to be found. They would ride
for 20, 30 or even 40 miles from their
remote stock ranches mines or noun
tain settlements to take part in the
Masonic lodge and to be a member
was one Of the highest honors that
could be accredited to a pioneer.
The order threw about its mem
bers strong protection in thoss early
days. It stood guard over the scatter
ed interests Of the pioneers, scrutiniz-
ed every new settler closely to find II
he was worthy, watched for thieves
gave warning Of dangers and made II
safe to live and own property in the
remotest corner Of the country
Today the country members, those
living at long distances away from the
centers Of trade, take even greater in.
terest in lodge work and in the order
than a large part Of city members.
It is not uncommon In Pendleton
Echo Helix, Milton, Union, La Grandc
or Baker City to sit in lodge witt
members who have come for miles
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15

II there is any word with a keenel
and more cruel edge than that of the
word ingratitude, in human language
II has not yet been discovered. Hatred
you can combat ;anger you can ap-
pease; abuse you can retaliate upon;
deceit you can watch for and avoid;
but ingrattude is the one unpunisha-
BILE and unpublished sin. Neither
heart nor hand nor brain can make
reply to its wanton cruelty.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
THE REWARD.

Every public man who dares t
question the corrupt methods of the
political machines of the country ant
who dares to throw the search light
upon the actions of the machines. Is
branded by the machine interests as
a traitor and a demagogue, no mat
ter how high his ideals, how honest
or exalted his purposes or how faith
fully he is serving the people he rep
resents
The Walla Walla Union, the person.
al and private organ of Senator Ankle
ny of Walla Walla, stoops to the level
of the ward bully in an attack on
Senator La Toilette. The attack is
made simply and solely because Sena-
tor La Toilette placed Ankeny with
the senatorial machine where he be-
longs, in his various speeches on pub
he questions before the senate.
Ankeny voted with the machine,
trained with it, worked with it, stood
with and was part of it and Senator
- toilette was guided by Ankeny's
vote and acts as recorded in the pro-
ceedings of the senate, and not by
any personal feeling in the matter,
and he did not single out Senator An
keny for a special roast, but simply
branded the entire machine clique in
the senate as being dishonest and cor
rupt.
Taking Senator La Follette's roast
Of the senatorial machine as a person.
al attack on Senator Ankeny, presum-
ably because he is a part of the ma
chine, the Union brands La Toilette
a. a cheap faker, a seeker after cheap
notoriety, blatant fraud and dema-
gogue fit only for the lecture plat
form where he may abuse honest"
public officials.
This is the reward meted out to re-
formers for their service in the in
terest Of the country. Everybody
knows that the people of Wisconsin
have found in Senator La Toilette a
staunch and stalwart friend and a ca
pable, fearless and honest statesman
or they would not have followed him
from one reform to another during the
past 20 years as they have done.
The attack Of the Union upon him,
only makes 1t more plain that that
paper is a personal organ ready and
willing to do anything to defend the
machine or to further machine inter-
ests. Amy man who tells the truth
about the Interests" in the senate Is
radical and a demagogue in the
eyes Of the Union.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
BEST YEAR FOR INDIANS.

While we are boasting of the pro
greSs of the public and private school!
and of the progress being made in the
education of the white children OF
Umatilla county, we forget that the
best year for the Indian children OF
the Umatilla reservation is also just
closing.
Under the excellent management of
Major A. E. McFatridge, the Umatilla
Indian agency school has made more
progress during the past year than
ever before and the attendance has
been larger than ever. also.
The Indian children show more ad-
vancement, the attendance has been
more regular and the general condi-
tions of the agency schools have been
better during the past year than ever.
The excellent showing is due to the
settled conditions on the reservation
and to the absence Of factional and
personal difficulties which have al
ways cursed the reservation manage
ment
Agent McFatridge has simply
brought order out Of chaos and the
people Of Pendleton and Of Umatilla
county appreciate his practical work
among the Umatilla Indians.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
CONE SAD DAY"

One sad day when the suns gold
crown
Jeweled the desolate, dreamy west,
l came with a burden and laid II
down
Under the lilies and leaves to rest;
And, weeping, I left it, and went my
way,
With the Silence whispering, GOD
knows best"
II.
One sad day-it was long ago
And stormy the ways my feet have
pressed
Since with tears and kisses 1 laid II
Soul of my soul, and life of my
breast!
And kneeling now in the dark to
pray.
There comes with a song from the
sunless west,
The same sweet voice that l heard
that day
The Silence whispering, God
knows best!'
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Con-
stitution.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
WHAT TO DO THE FOURTH.

The East Oregonian believes that
Pendleton should celebrate and it
will contribute literally to the fund
for that purpose, as It has always
done heretofore.
1t believes that Pendleton and
Umatilla county have more genuine
cause to celebrate this year than ever
before. The county Is on the verge
OF its best Industrial era. New land
is being made tillable. The marvel Of
new homes is rising from the sage
brush prairie everywhere and all the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
TOUCHING.

Soon after his first baby was born
his wife went upstairs one evening
and found him standing by the side
of the crib and gazing earnestly at
the crib. She was touched by the sight
and tears filled her eyes. Her arms
stole softly around his neck as she nes-
tied her cheek caressingly against his
shoulder.
He started slightly at her touch.
Darling" he murmured dreamily
"Yes?" she said softly.
"What l was going to say Is, it is
incOmprehensible to me how they
can possibly get up such a crib as
that for seven-and-six London
Times
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
TRUST WINS BOTH WAYS.

Russia, it seems, is quite willing to
place a huge order for steel rails in
this country, about 100000 tons,
providing the steel trust will take pay
ment in Russian bonds at par.
The United States, 1t seems, will
have a chance to take large block
of desirable foreign security with
out sending away any cash for the
purchase for the steel trust may mar
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15

perhaps half a days drive to attend
lodge. They live in their Masonic
teaching they think of it, practice it
and love 1t and to this enthusiastic
devotion 10 its principles is due a
large part of the civilization of the
Pacific coast states,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15

ket the bonds to American investors.
The main beauty OF the scheme IL
that the bonds may be forced up
above the price at which the steel
trust takes them for trade, and the
trust, besides making a fat profit on
the rails, will make a nice commits
sion on the bonds. The intrlcacies Of
so-called high finance are as pretty
to watch as the fitting together Of a
clever Chinese puzzle.-Spokane
Chronicle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-06-15
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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
AMATEUR PLAYERS WIN
SUCCESS IN king LEAR"
The Most Remarkable Performs
ance Yet Given by the St.
Mary's Organization.

The most remarkable performance
yet given by Newark's most talented
organization of amateur thespians was
that last night of "King Lear" by the
st. Mary's players in st. Mary's Hall,
Shipman and William streets. The
performance is to be repeated tonight.
The production was the fourth of
Shakespeare's plays undertaken this
season, and from the nature of the
play. necessarily the most ambitious OF
them all. The admirable n in
which it was staged and costumed and
the actors trained reflects the excep-
tional ability of the Rev. Father Bene-
dict, o.. S. B., as a stage manager and
coach.
The acting of this most formidable
of Sh~akespeare's tragedies revealed ar
intelligent conception of the meaning
of the play, and the ability to trans.
late 1t into action. Few amateurs car
read blank verse acceptably, but these
Of st. Mary's have been well trained
in the art.
Frank G. Schaeffer played Lear in
a that did credit to himself
and his instructors. 1t is q colossal
role, but he did not belittle it. Miss
Zekue's Goneril, Miss Schramm's Re-
gan and Miss Kueffner's Cordelia
were all well done. Il. ]. Birs and
William Wright were also successfully
cast.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
COUNTY BUDGET
TO Be 100000
OVER LAST YEAR
School Tax Mainly Responsible
for Increase-TOtal Amount
About $2,5I5,357.44.

The finance committee of the Board
of Freeholders, after a four-hour dis
cussion of the county budget last night,
estimated hat the total which will be
approved by the board, May -, will
be $200,0 900 more than last year.
AS near as can be estimated the total
county tax will amount to $1,544, 10.
The school tax as levied by the State
is $970,647.44, making a total of $751;
357.44.
The largest increases are In matters
over which the freeholders have no
control, the school tax this year for
instance, being $113, 151.46 more than
last ear. The court expenses are ex-
pected to be a close second in the in
crease, although the court officials were
not heard from.
DR.. Synnott asked for the new isola-
ton hospital $97,071, on the grounds
that there would be 100 patients and
sixty employees to provide for beside
furniture, horses, ambulances, etc
After going over the request the COM
mittee cut the appropriation to SAG, 1000,
and then to $4,000, exclusive of the
new buildings and repair items.
A request FOR an appropriation OF
$40. 900 for the Essex County Speedway
was received %favorably; $25. 900 will be
placed in the levy for the House OF
Detention, the same amount as last
year.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
BANK CLOSED BY
MAGEE'S SUICIDE
TO REOPEN soon

MANASQUAN. May 5.-The Manas-
guam First National Bank. which closed
its doors several days ago, after the
suicide OF Its president, Morgan De-
lancey Magee, will open it's doors in a
few days. Bank Examiner Schofield,
who has been going over the books, will
send his report to Washington tomor-
row. Two directors made the state
ment today that the bank would open
in two days and pay dollar for dollar to
depositors.
No run on the bank is expected, as
many of the depositors have pledged
themselves t allow their accounts to
remain. 1t is said today that there is
a. 500. 900 payment due the New Jersey
Bridge Company on a contract in Port
land, Me, and this sum will be depos-
tied in the bank. The Terhune Broth
ers and John Borden, the latter men,
toned as Mr.. Magee's successor. are
said to have offered to aid the bank.
The late president viii be buried to-
morrow. Business at ManasQuan will
practically be at a standstill all day.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
HOBOKEN WEEPS;
HETTY GREEN IS
BLOWING HERSELF
Worlds Richest Woman Moves
from $I9-a-MOnth Flat to
$3O-a=Day Apartment.
Especial to the Evening star.l

HOBOKEN, May 5.-Hoboken hal
lost its richest inhabitant, and there is
a rushing of German tears to the eye
at 1907 Washington street, where the
sign Of ''1at for rent" is displayed
For Mrs. Hetty Green, her daughter
Sylvia and a sky terrier dog have left
bag and baggage, The $40 a month flat
is idle, and the Green family are bask-
ing in the luxury of a $40 a day suite
of rooms at the fashionable Plaza
Hotel in New York, whence it is said
that Mrs. Green plans to break into
society.
Not only has Mrs. Green departed
from her modest manner of living, but
the affairs of the financial world are
shared temporarily with the dress
maker and the milliner. Already has
Mrs. Green blossomed out in a new
bonnet and a new dress, the former
Boosting two rich. red roses, the latter
being of the latest fashionable cut
Both dress and bonnet are Of black
but the artists of the scissors believe
that ere long even the conventional
black will be put aside, and the rich
est woman in the world'' will appear in
softer and more pleasing colors.
Mrs. Green left her Hoboken fiat or
moving day, May /. The rent had been
paid in advance to that time, and she
stayed the limit. When she engaged
rooms in the Plaza Mrs. Green was as
careful as ever not to get the worst OF
the bargain. When she was told that
some of the suites rented for $25, 900 and
$50, 900 a year she gasped.
At the hotel. attention is called to the
recent report of the engagement of Miss
Sylvia to Matthew Astor Wilks, great
grandson of the first John Jacob Astor.
Although Mr.. Wilks has denied that
the engagement exists, there are many
who place credence in the rumor.
The Greens have been seen but once
in the public dining-room, preferring
TO have their meals served in their
rooms.
MRS. Green is anxious that her
daughter should marry into some we'll
known family" said a society maj to-
Gay, land TO hat end she has moved
to the Plaza"
Mrs. Green goes daily to the Chemi-
cal National Bank, where she spends
the greater part of the day, taking
luncheon at the bank.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
UNABLE TO FIND
HONEST MAN, DOG
IS MADE PARTNER
"Co." End of F. M. Weller & Co.,
Capital SI,OOO.O 600, Is Thor
oughbred Fox Terrier.
GETS HIS PROFITS
IN MEATS AND BONES
Duties Consist of Inspecting
Grounds of Rented Property.
Has WeiIer's Full Confidence.

When f. M. Weller. of 56S Warren
street, opened an office at S1s Bank
street he looked about for a trust
worthy partner who would be content
with a small share of the profits. Like
Diogenes, not finding an honest
Weller took as a partner "Tassels," his
dog, a thoroughbred fox terrier. To-
House, Weller signed partnership
papers. and now. while Weller is still
Weller. "Tassels' is Co of L. NJ.
Weller & Co.
Every day between 8 a. m. and 5
p. m. "Tassels'' takes on a wonderfully
knowing business air. The office is
opened with prayer by Weller, OF
course, and Weller turns to his ledger.
while the go" trots off to inspect the
two blocks of tenements rented through
the agency of the firm. Promptly at 3
O'Clock "Tassels" trots back to the
Office and goes home with his master.
The sign painted on the office Win
dow reads: 1.-The International Finance
Incorporating Company of New York.
Capital, 81, 000, GOO" From all of which
it would seem that 'fTassels' is pos
sessed Of considerable money in his
own name.
He is an ideal partner" said Weller
today. HE doesn't give away the
secrets of the firm, makes no mistakes,
and is always attentive to business. I
keep a strict account of his profits,
most of which he withdraws in chicken
bones.''
From Weiler's statement it would APP
pear that business is going to the dogs,
at least a little of it, to the junior part
ner of f. NJ. Weller & Co.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
WALDMANN'S-"JERSEY LILIES"

No personal success of this season
at Waldmann's has exceeded that made
by Leon Erroi as Ludwig Luders in
the Jersey Lilies extravaganza COM
pany last night. He had the audience
at his mercy. and, in the matter of
making it laugh, gave no quarter.
The company was similar to that of
last year, and much of the performance
was a duplicate of the former one, but
there were several new and pleasing
songs. Cad Franks and Williams and
Franklin sang some Yiddish that made
a hit. Mel Mckinley, a local boy, who
is gradually climbing the ladder to
fame as a tenor, was received heartily.
Miss Fannie Vedder was ~pleasingly
conspicuous in the b~urlesques. The
olio was nothing extraordinary.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
ANOTHER WEEK OF
THE CLANSMAN"
At THE NEWARK
Thomas DixOn's MelOdrama
Makes Its Third Appearance
in This City.
A PLAY THAT HAS BEEN
TOO MUCH DISCUSSED
Acted Before a Large Audience,
1t Seems Likely to Repeat
Its Success Here.
ERHAPS at this late date it is a
case of the less said the better

ERHAPS at this late date 1t is a
case of the less said the better
when 1t comes to a discussion of
the nature of 1.-The Clansman" as a
m~elodrama, designed to picture the re-
construction period in the South, and
as a dramatic treatment of the prob
lem of the negro. A very large share
OF Its success the play owes to the
noun of volubly expressed indigna-
ton it has aroused inc the number of
times it has peer officially suppressed
on the ground of being a deliberate in
centive to racial disturbance. If peo-
pie had confined their complaints to
the faults of the piece as dramatic en-
tertainment its fate would have been
settled speedily. For. thus considered,
public patience could not long have
endured anything so inexpensively
theatrical and crudely sensational.
The play. which is the first effort at
dramatic writing OF the Rev. Thomas
Dixon, jr.. was offered for the third
time at the Newark Theatre last night.
There was present a large audience.
which gave frequent manifestations of
interest. The only novelty in the per-
Torrance was the n in which the
ifC WtoiiitiS III otNtlAI iOiRS oN9oiSh1o
themselves.
One of the bright spots was the act
ing of Miss Violet Meresereau, a little
girl of about IA years, as Flora
Cameron. the child whom one of the
negro villains e%ndeavors to assault n
succeeds in numbering. Miss Mer-
sereau was a very sweet and engaging
child in the early acts, and knowingly
expressed the distress of the unpleas-
ant third-act episode. Unlike most
child-actors, she was distinguished for
a very pleasing lack of self-conscious-
ness.
Miss Maude Durand played the old
negro with rich humor and,
we are told, a surprisingly correct
South Carolina dialect. Barry Maxwell
was not so successful as old Nelse. The
hero of the play and leader of the Ku
Klux Khan, Ben Cameron. was enacted
with graceful and manly effect by
Franklin Richie. He and some others
In the company failed at times, how
ever. to get their lines over the foot
lights with sufficient clarity.
The other parts We're played with
nothing more h average success. :
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05

balls n projectiles, and even an en-
tire gun and carriage.
But the way he catches the heavy
weights on the back of his neck, or
rather shoulders, ducking with his head
just in time, is a caution.
The rest of the bill Is good, with
Coates & Grundy's watermelon Trust"
comprising five negro singers and
dancers, making the biggest hit; Ade-
lima Roattino and Clara Stevens in a
novel song and dance sketch, and
Lyster Chambers and Miss Clara Knott
in a good serious sketch. called THE
Operator" by Charles Kenyon.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05

administration the arts I'M sciences
have flourished. Our relations with
other peoples of the world have been
greatly extended. and untold benefits
have flowed to this country in conse
quence thereof. Realizing that the
genius of America is the genius OF
commerce and industry, 1t has by wise
and salutary legislation encouraged by
fair treatment all those interests vital
to he. happiness of the people. Its
work is not yet complete. The Repub-
lican party, standing today In the full
vigor and strength of young and yet
mature life, possesses the confidence
of our people, and, realizing its re-
sponsibility, win press steadily on to
the contamination and security of all
those matters which are essential to
our prosperity"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-05
BLANEY'S-TALKING PICTURES.

The greatest novelty Newark has seen
in the line of moving pictures, which
have now become go universally popu-
lar, was introduced at Blaney's Theatre
last night in the shape of pictures that
not only move but talk. This combina-
ton is effected by the simultaneous EN-
ployment of the photograph and the
acknowledgement. The pictures were run
off smoothly yesterday and made a
most favorable impression. They are
repeated hourly. beginning at 2 and s
o'clock, vaudeville specialties being in
troduced between performances. The
subjects of the pictures were song hits
from various popular musical comedies.