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The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04
The San Francisco Sunday Call

s.,5 fr,,it culturist Nobody knows what
are the ultimate possibilities or the SOIL
have been going toward them as -
,yard an eternally vanishing point We
can not quicken the pace too soon or
700 much. What inures to the material
welfare of the farmer makes for the
nrofit Of the~railrOad line which hauls
his Droducts. Throw railroad out
over a barren prairie and quickly the
waste becomes a garden Just as
ouicklv the railroad begins to get back
some OF the capital 1t has advanced
That's why we are watching so
carefully over the settler in the new
territory. That is why nome seekers
excursions are run twice month at
very low rates We figure that every
family planting a home along our lines
a. worth 5000 a year as producer and
corsuTaer. The better the farmer the
more he is worth TO US, and that Is the
under ideal cultivation. Thus 1ar we
reason we pay heavily TO reveal all
the field secrets we happen 20 know
Legal restrictions prevent the rail-
roads from doing many things they
would like to do 10 promote and de-
velop new territory for the benefit OF
the settler We do not build factories,
but we are often OF great assistance 70
cftizens In interesting outside capltal
i'm manufacturing enterprises, IN lrri-
cation projects ana the Ike. we Stuuy
the needs of each community and let
the outside world know about them.
In western Kansas and in Colorado, for
instance we are responsible for the
establishment of six big sugar beet
factories. first having conducted eN-
perfments to show that beet Of high
'saccharine value could be grown In the
adjacent country. We have sought out
the hiding places of raw material and
have gone TO capitalists and persuaded
them TO erect cement plants in eastern
Kansas Frequently 1t costs a great
deal OF money and years Of hard work
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Nv fEAI mas oeen done Dy the Rock
M Island-Frisco and Santa Re com
~ panies has been done on a smaller
scale by other Western lines touching
virgin plains and valleys. It.is no new
story that James j. Hill of the Great
Northern has spent a good portion OF
his time in close eontSct with the
farmers OF the northwest and has given
his best thoughts to promote their in
terestS. Farmers institutes have been
one of his hobbies. He has imported
blooded Iivestock-hogs. cattle and
sheep-and practically given them away
to spread the gospel of good breeding
along the lines of the Great Northern
He spent many thousands of dollars in
this way, arguing that empty freight
cars are the bane of railroads and that
a good hog. steer or cow will furnish
more freight than a poor one. He did
more than anybody knows TO develop
the wonderful wheat and fruit re-
sources OF the Dakotas, Minnesota
Washington and Oregon. Last spring
Hill sent good seed train" over his
lines. An expert aboard told the grain
growers many things of profit to them
selves.
In a different way Hartman, WITH
his Southern Pacific. Union Pacific andr
Oregon Short Line. has contributed un-
told aid in building up the south
west, California and the Pacific coast
generally. His greatest service has
been in cooperating with development
companies In irrigation projects and in
bringing Indifferent railroad lines up to
an unsurpassed standard of efficiency.
In Transforming the Southern Pacific
from what it was into what IL is Har-
riman was quoted only a few days
ago saying:
lars and cents to bring about this con-
trast? Do you know that before / ever
tried or expected to take a dollar OF
profits out of the system 1 put more
than s125,00O.0OO into it?''
To complete his project OF a physical
ly perfect system through the western
half of the continent. which means the
minimizing of grades and curves. Har-
riman purposes spending ultimately
5000, 100000. He was asked what Is
the use. and replied:
Cheaper freight rates"
1t is not the place in this article TO
try TO detail the countless millions OF
wealth the railroad companies have
brought to the adoIescent states of the
west by throwing across them their
parallel lines of steel That is a tale
for books to tell. and books viii never
tell il all. Let the marvellous Imperial
valley in the southwest be one OF the
silent witnesses There are hundreds
like il.
Orange trees were not profitable in
California in 1879 because it cost $3.50
to put carload of the luscious fruit
into the eastern market. In that wear
10 carloads were shipped by rail OUT OF
Los Angeles. In 1880 the Santa Fe he
gan to push its way over hundreds OF
miles of barren waste TO the coast II ]
1881 the cost OF car of freight drODpe,s
10 $3.50 and California challenged Flor
ida for the trade. Last year 29.S20 ears
of citrus fruits were shipped from Cal
ifornia. Within 10 DAYS or the time the
boxes were loaded in Los Angeles they
were landed on sidetracks in Chicago.
That is a tale with a moral
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roads by first adding to their own
wealth. Kansas suffered for years
from the blight of the immigrant fail
ure. AS a drawback he rivaled grass
hoppers, hot winds and cyclones.
During the year ended June 80. 1908.
the immigration department of the
Rock Island system received S2,367 re-
quests for information from prospec-
tive home seekers. Each of these was
answered with a personal letter tf fit
the individual case. The department
also sent out 100000 form letters. 10000
follow up cards and 10000 elabJrateIy
prepared land lists from which the
home seeker might make a tentative
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charged in Great Britain, the average
wage of railway employees in the United
States is more than twice what it 10 in
the domain OF King Edward, the fig
ures being s642 year compared with
5000. In France the average is only
1888. These are the figures submitted
by Mr.. Yoakum, who declares that en-
gine drivers in Great Britain average
s487, as against $1.S5s paid in this
country. Section hands in the United
States receive sos more yearly than
conductors are paid in Great Britain
and sl23 more than locomotive fire.
men earn there
That the two cent passenger fare has
struck millions from railroad revenues
is indicated by the annual report of
the Chicago and Alton. the first report
dealing with full years experience
since the two cent fare went into ef-
feet in various states. The official
returns show that there was a gain
Of u per cent in passenger traffic on
this road and a loss Of per cent in
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G UMMING up. American railroads
seem destined to lose $50, 900 900 In
gross earnings due to falling off in
freight traffic s5o,oOo,oO due to the en-
foreement of two cent passenger fares
and s2o.oOO.oOo due to extra expense
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S<ss sasseSsES Sss 1885 @ 81 r T F0FE7

revenue therefrom, or 100000 In round
numbers. On a mileage basis applied
to all railroads the total loss may be
anywhere from s5o.ooO,o 600 to $4,000
900. This estimate is purely con-
jecturaL.
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To enlighten the farmer about the
farming possibilities and demands of
this and that community the railroads
are spending annually many hundreds
OF thousands of dollars. The Rock
lsland-Frisco lines, for instance, spent
more than 100000 for the purpose dur
ing the last fiscal year. This sum does
not take into account the exception
ally low rates of fare given to home
seekers The money was spent for "a
monthly magazine of information on
the various communities open to set
tlement, for pamphlets, personal let
ters, advertisements in magazines and
newspapers and for lectures, demon
strations and exhibits, agricultural and
horticultural.
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4 I is the aim of the companies through
their immigration departments to
get into intimate personal touch with
each farmer who seeks home on lands
along their lines. They seek to know
what has been the measure of his sue
cess as tiller of the soil in his old
nome, what he plans, wishes and hopes
Tor IN new fields. They do not urge
him TO proceed along lines Of blind
faith They want him to see for him
SELF hence the extending of very low
excursion rates that he may go and
learn first hand what is raised. how it
is produced, what are the virtues of
the soils the shipping facilities. the
markets-in short, all the factors that
enter into. successful husbandry.'
The l"ilToad officials do not encour-
age thh .n-in who does not seem to
have within the element of sue
cess. They strive to tell him the ex-
act truth as nearly as they can ascer-
tain 1t, experience having demonstrated
that this Is the only wise policy The
dissatisfied settler, the man who fails
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10 accomplish results, but II pays US
In the long run. even IL we do have 70
walt until long after the community af-
fected begins TO reap substantial
benefits.
we publish and disseminate 5000
pieces OF literature In the way OF a
ers. in addition to $4,000 copies -Of our
monthly magazine. The Earth. There
are 10 folders. each devoted to a par
ucular region. In the Texas Pan
handle last year we handled 2.25O cars
of immigrant goods. representing $500
families and 22.5O0 individuals How
many more went in as individuals and
in wagons. attracted by publications.
we do not know. Last year $4,000
homesteads were hled in New Mexico
territory The desert entries brought
the total fling up to 100000 acres.
SeVenty-five thousand persons were
added TO the population along our lines
last year in New Mexico. During Is
months prior TO April 1907, 1000. 600
acres were fled in the territory tribu
tary TO Santa Fe lines"
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= UPPLEMENTING the assertion of
Mr. Brown that the shrinkage in
- revenues OF all the roads VIII be a
half billion dollars is the showing Of
b. =. Yoakum. chairman Of the execu-
tive committee Of the Rock Island
Frisco system, that through the de-
preston in carrying traffic and in gem
eral trade railroad employees are los
ing sLOOo,ooO day. or s25, 100000 a
month; that 400. 600 of them are out Of
employment; that the companies are
purchasing supplies at the rate of $780,
600 900 a year instead of 81. ESQ, 600, 600
q loss 10 the manufacturers and the
general trade OF the country OF 50, 5Oo,-
600 each working day.
slsson Thompson, one Of the
leading statisticians FOR the railroads,
has demonstrated by carefully collated
data that an extra expense Of nearly
s2o.oo0.ooo is saddled on the roads by
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g HRINKAGE in the revenues Of
the railroads OF the United
States this year as compared
with those OF last year VIII be
$500. .0OO. 900, according 10 the estimates
Of ". c. Brown, senior vice president
OF the New York Central
In the last u months the state of
Texas has added s526. .287.24S to its as
sessed wealth. bringing the total up to
t2,l6s. .5Sl,36S. 1t is the greatest gain
the state ever made in single year
and it was made in the period when
the railroads Of the country are near
the shoals Of bankruptcy.
These are striking figures set forth
in contrast. AT first blush they seem
10 disprove the assertion that the peo-
pie can not be prosperous unless the
railroads are prosperous. A little delv-
ing behind the returns shows that the
assertion still holds good. The farmer
has been the last to feel the depression
through which the country is passing.
He is still garnering dollars from the
prosperity which the railroads helped
TO create and which they shared in
1906 and last year.
Texas is largely an agricultural COM
munity. The blow Of adversely has not
Yet reached it; hence its unchecl6e1 in
orement of wealth. What is tr. of
Texas is true in fact. if not in the same
degree, OF Oklahoma, Colorado. Kansas.
the Dakotas and other states whose
marvellous development hangs largely
on the helping hand held out by the
great transportation systems.
The Call readers have learned ,auch in
= the last few weeks about the condition
Of the railroads in connection with the
movement for an advance in freight
rates. In all the interviews with rail-
road officials. shippers and members of
federal and state commissions hardly
word has been said OF the way the rail-
roads are cooperating with the people
who are finding homes on and coaxing
riches. Aladdin like, from the soil of
the newer states. In their modesty
the railroadmen have passed by an in
tensely interesting sidelight on the re-
lations of the people TO the modern en-
pire building corporations To bring
this spirit OF camarsderie and mutual
aid out in stronger relief it is well
TO go back and summarize some of the
facts which have been presented in re-
cent discussions Of the rate question.
UPPLENFNTTNG the assertion of
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selection before he went to look the
ground over personally.
AS result of its publicity system
77,O29 home seekers visited Rock ISL
and-Frisco territory during the year,
the special rates allowed by law being
offered on the first and third Tuesdays
of each month. Fourteen thousand two
hundred and fifty full carloads of inn
migrant outfits were shipped. also at
special rate. to stations along Rock ISL
and lines alone These ged two
families to the car. so that 2S.50e fam
lilies were represented. In part car
loads 10000 other families were repre-
sented. Possibly 5000 to 10000 more
families proceeded into the territory by
wagons.
In these families, according to best
estimates. were 10O.OOO individuals. The
total purchases are believed to have
been 100000 acres of land. much OF
which was put under immediate culti-
vation. These immigrants went largely
into what is called the Panhandle OF
Texas. but Missouri. Kansas, Colorado.
New Mexico. Arkansas and Nebraska
also We're magnets for settlers. The
movement into New Mexico is mostly
to government lands or free home
steads In the more thickIy settled
states there were outright purchases OF
land. but not from the Rock Island. for
it has no land to sell. 1t hauls freight.
lNDER the constant direction of
Mr.. Fulton $. White, agricultural
and horticultural commissioner OF
the road. the Rock Island Frisco sys-
tenn maintains an expert demonstration
department for the benefit alike Of
actual settlers and prospective home
seekers Mr.. Whites home is pri-
vate car which is filled with normal
specimens of. the products of Il states
and territories tapped by the road.
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to realize on his hopes of conquest over
the soil, and abandons his new enter
prise, does more harm to a community
than dozen successful men can over
come. Besides, he does not furnish
freight and the railroad companies
wish to deal with men who aid the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
ATTEMPTED HUG AND KISS
COST RESTAURATEUR $50

Hugs and kisses sometimes come
high, at least Gospero Athens, the
proprietor of the Norfolk cafe thought
so Wednesday morning, when he paid
$50.75, and that gladly too, in lieu
Of an alternative Of thirty days in the
stockade, says dispatch from Allan
ia, Ga.
Athens was prosecuted before Re-
corder Broyles by the pretty young
wife of II. NJ Hampton, who told the
recorder that Athens came to her
home Tuesday on the pretext Of want
ing to buy the place, and at an op-
perfume moment seized her and tried
to hug and kiss her. The young mo-
man fled from her home and prompt
ly came down town 10 inform her hus-
band Of what occurred. The latter at
once communicated with the police
station and Athens was arrested.
Mrs. Hampton, in an effort to aid
her husband, went to work for Athens
a short time ago as cashier in his
cafe, but remained there only a week.
During the time she was there Athens
said to have exhibited considerable
fondness for the young woman and
became very friendly with both her
and her husband
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28

The beef barons Of Chicago threat
en- TO invade France and France has
taken the alarm.
The Chicago packers began three
years ago by seeking 70 acquire near
Dieppe large space Of ground for the
construction Of abauoirs and annexes
for preserving meat The Dieppe mu-
nic.pality refused 70 sell. but the trust
has since bought land from the COM
uu1e OF Granville. ne2- Havre, and
erected an abG--ol- az a cost ot So
100000. Proposals for purchase Of
l-E eavs aISo been addressed 10
Nl-Ss-5s, Sc-zsa-N and other ports
E2s-s cz--ls ara la-ss6. and also near
t. 1-c=--z-c-sl market az Vilette.
The IndUsgry IN France.
n Ns--s's party has memorable
e. The government % stop this. II
says that France possesses 50.00o.000
head Of cattle, worth SS00.00o. 600.
and the industry Of raising them and
their products. such as milk. cheese
and butter. maintains about half the
population Of France NJ. Melne goes
on TO say:
The plan Of the Chicago trust is 10
commence by buying only French cat
tie, which, owing TO its immense cap
ital, it can buy at very high prices.
When that operation has succeeded
and the trust has become the only
possible buyer il will lower the pur-
chase price and strangle our agricul-
turists. II they resist the trust will
import American cattle to keep down
the prices. while it will continue to
sell dear meat to the butchers and
consumers"
To Check the Trust.
Under French treaties cattle may
be imported if healthy, but may be (
slaughtered only in specially con- |
structed abattoirs. NJ. Meline propos- /
es that. a law be enacted forbidding
communes to construct abattoirs be-
yond the needs of the local popula-
tion, thereby preventing the American
trust from repeating its Granville op-
erations. Such a law would prevent
the concentration by spectators of
all the cattle slaughtered in the coun-
try. A majority of the senator's will
probably favor the proposal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
DISTRESS FROM
WEAK STOMACH
PROMPT RELIEF FOR
STOMACH TROUBLE WAITING
Don't Hesitate and Continue TO Suf-
fer When Such Absolute Relief Is
So Handy-Begin Taking Diapep-
sin Today and Have This Misery
Over With Forever

why not start now-today. and for.
ever rid yourself of stomach trouble
and indigestion? a dieted stomach
gets the blues and grumbles. Give it
good eat, then take Papes Diapep-
sin to start the digestive juices work
ing. There will be no dyspepsia or
belching Of gas or eructions OF undi-
gested food; no feeling like a lump
Of lead in the stomach or heartburn,
sick headache and dizziness, and your
food will not ferment and poison
your breath with nauseous odors.
Pape's DiapepSin costs only so
cents for a large case at any drug
store here, and will relieve the most
obstinate case. Of indigestion and up
set stomach in five minutes.
There is nothing else better to take
gas from stomach and cleanse the
stomach and intestines, and, besides,
one triangule viii digest and prepare
for assimilation into the blood all
your food the same as a sound, heal
try stomach would do it.
When Diapepsin works, your stom-
ach reSts-gets itself in order. cleans
up-and then you feel like eating
when you come to the table, and what
you eat Will do you good.
Absolute relief from all stomach
misery is waiting for you as soon as
you decide to begin taking Diapep-
sin. Tell your druggist that you want
Pape's Diapepsin, because you want
TO be thoroughly cured of indigestion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
MACK NOW CLAIMS OREGON.
Adds Rosy Ray to Rainbow of De-
mOcfacy.

New York, Oct. 27.-Norman E.
Mack, chairman Of the national DEM
ocratic committee, received a tele-
gram from the headquarters of that
committee yesterday in Chicago de-
claring that in addition to his forecast
Of the Bryan vote published yester-
day, the following states are reason
ably certain to cast their electoral vote
for Bryan: Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Utah, Oregon and Washington.
This telegram was signed by P. A.
Hall. vice chairman; John w. Tom
linson, Trey Woodson and Roger c.
Sullivan.
Commenting upon the letter to P.
H. Grace Of Binghamton, Mr.. Mack
said he guessed the president was try
ing to keep the minds of the people
off their demand to open the books
Of the campaign fund.
"The republicans don't want
change Of administration because IL
there comes a change the books will
be opened and the whole work Of the
republican administration for the past
y years will be shown up" said Mr.
Mack.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
MOTHER-IN-LAW IN SUIT.
Dentist Asks $4,000 for Gunshot
Wound She Inflicted.

New York.-James ". Simpson, the
dentist who was accused Of the muir
der Of his father-ln-law, BARLEY Hor-
ner, and was later shot by his mother
in-law as he was trying % enter the
house in which Mrs. Homer and Mrs.
Simpson were living, has sued Mrs.
Homer for $4,000 damages for the
latter shooting, which he claims was
without cause or provocation" Mrs.
Homer IN her answer 20 the suit re-
cites the facts Of the killing Of her
husband who died ag the result Of
wounds caused by a discharge from
gun IN Simpsons hands which
Simpson claimed and the jury decid-
ed was discharged by accident. She
says she was witness against sinp-
son in his trial and that her daughter
afterwards refused 10 live with slnp-
son. but resided with her. Simpson
had been forbidden the house. but at
tempted TO see his wife, and Mrs. Hor-
ner shot him because. she said. she
had been told he entertained very
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
ARREST IA NIGHT RIDERS.
Sixty-one Now Held in Connection
With Reel Foot Outrage.

Camp Reno, Reel Foot Lake, Tenn,
Oct. 2S.-Fourteen prisoners were
brought into camp yesterday in con-
nection with recent night rider out
RACES in this section. This makes a
total of 81 now in custody here. Three
mounted scouting parties went out
and two of them returned. The third
will not be back before tomorrow
night.
The detachment headed by Major
r. E. Martin was prepared to go to
Obion tonight to search for the mys-
terious masked men who were report
ed to have been seen near that town.
After communicating with several
people Colonel Tattom decided that
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
FRANCE IN FEAR
Of BEEF TRUST
CHICAGO PACKERS BUY
LAND AND ERECT ABATTOIR

VIII ENpnd More Than Two Million
Dollars-Govcrnmcn Asked TO
Stop Further Inroads-M. Meline
Points Out That French Cattle In
duStry May BE Ruined - Present
Law Allows Importation of Stock.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
WIRE AND POLICE IN RACE
WITH CUPID ARE BEATEN
Two Illinois Couples Elope to st.
Louis, Evade Pursuers and Are Ar

Two lillIlOlS couples ElOpe 10 ~
Louis, Evade Pursuers and Are Ar
rested.
| Cupid, who has raced with every
| kind of rival, from the noble charger
of old to the giant speeder of today
won another race with the telegraph
wires and all the police of st. Louis
says a dispatch from the latter city.
The race started when Ludwig Sol
jar who gave his residence as Lin
coin, Ill.,, and Barbara Varga OF
Springfield, H., left their respective
homes and started out TO look for a
place to get married.
Miss Varga is only 16 years old, ac-
cording to the telegram that entered
the race soon after the originals. The
telegram was from the police of
Springfield. Ill, asking the authorities
of this city to arrest the couple when
they left the train.
The telegram arrived about 10
O'Clock and as it happened the couple
had arrived half hour before. When
they left the train they were with an
other couple and all four, instead of
looking around at the tall buildings.
started on their way to the license
clerks office.
Arrived at the office, the four found
no trouble in getting the license, as
in the judgment of the clerk each of
hem looked the age they gave
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-28
To Check the Trust.


David Parker, of Fayette, y. Y, a
veteran Of the civil war. who lost
foot at Gettysburg, says: The good
Electric Bitters have done is worth
more than $500 to me I spent more
money dOctoring for a bad case Of
stomach trouble, to little purpose.
then tried Electric Bitters, and they
cured me. I now take them as a ton
ic, and they keep me strong and we'll
SOC at Tallman & Co.'S and Pendleton
Drug Co.