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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
THE UPPER ROOM.

In my house of life is an Upper
Room,
A small and garnished place;
And there | dreamed in the mist
gray gloom,
And looked my soul in the face.
60 Upper Room with your dreams
where |
Let my friends, unwept, go passing
byD
once Love tried the door, and a child's
voice came
l heard it through my prayers
But the door was barred when they
called my name,
And the steps went down the stairs
(And yesterday at the door l found
A toy and a rose trampled on the
ground)
And my prayers were heard, for with
toll my house
Has grown, though empty. great;
And from my Upper Room I see
Crowds gather around my gate.
(From my Upper Room with its
dreams where |
Let the loveless years go passing by.)
have found my fight. Hark, they
bring the prize
have run; have won the race!
But sit and dare not lift my eyes
To look my soul in the face.
(For yesterday at the door I found
A toy and a rose trampled on the
ground)
Mary r. Roberts, in Success.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
WHERE CREDIT Is DUE.

1t would be wrong to allow the
third annual district fair to pass into
history without saying a word of
praise for the fair commissioners and
others whose earnest work made the
fair such a splendid success.
To successfully conduct a fair such
as the one just closed means work.
In preparing for the fair the COM
missioners were required to hold
meetings daily and they gave many
hours Of valuable time to work for
which their only reward lies in the
satisfaction Of knowing that they
we're rendering the community SER
vice.
To Commissioners Roosevelt,
Cohen. Secretary Fitz Gerald and
others whose work and advice made
the fair a record breaking success,
medals Of honor should be given.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
AEROPLANES TO ORDER.

There are signs enough that the
different groups of aeroplane invent
ors are getting ready to build them for
sale, and already there is rivalry and
some little evidence Of personal feel
ing among them. The courts Will
probably be called upon to settle
many-sided patent litigation. Next
summer anybody may have an aero
plane who can spend from $500 to
$4,000 for one, and the comparative
merits Of the heavy Wright machine,
with its levers, the lighter Hammonds-
port product, whose wheel gear is
more familiar TO automobilists, and
the much smaller Herring machine
may be the subject Of animation con-
versation on country club piazzas, be-
tween the more adventurous young
fellows who have room on their es-
tates to fly and are trying the flyers
for sport.-World's Work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
\ JUDICIAL FARCE.

Some blunders were made by the
people of oregon last June, but it is
doubtful if they went farther estray
than they did when they voted to re-
establish the old grand jury system.
To the popular mind the grand jury
system appeals. Men like the idea
OF having criminal cases passed upon
by a grand jury composed of seven
.disinterested "good men and true"
But those who follow court pro-
coedings closely know that the grand
jury system is a farce. 1t was brought
back into use professedly to reduce
the power of district attorneys. But
experience has shown that there is
not one grand jury out of a hundred
that does not do precisely as the dis
trict attorney suggests.
This is no reflection upon either
grand jurors or prosecuting officers
BY the nature of things a grand jury
must rely upon the district attorney
for guidance. If the prosecutor is
capable and honest he advises cor
rectlv and if the jurors are honest
and sensible, as they usually are, in
Umatilla county at least, they follow
his advice.
The trouble with the present sys-
tenn is that the district attorney still
has the power, in reality though not
rominally. but he does not have the
responsibility. He now works be-
hind a mask
In Portland a grand jury has just
returned a report in which they crit
iclse the city administration for its
crusade against the redlight district.
Behind this criticism can readily be
seen the hand Of District Attorney
Cameron who is fighting the Lane ad-
minlstration and has seemingly used
his grand jury as a club with which
10 strike his political foes.
But there are other faults with the
grand jury aside from the fact that
it relieves the district attorney Of re-
sponslbIity he should bear. 1t also
delays justice.
Between the time the new law went
into effect and the convening Of the
recent grand jury in this county cob
webs grew upon the scales Of justice.
No Indictments could be had against
az yone. whether blind pig operator
OF horse thief Because Of this fact
men who were ready to plead guilty
to the charges against them were
forced to wait for months before they
could be indicted and arraigned.
Under the old system the district
attorney had power to indict yet the
court could appoint a grand jury any
time he saw fit to do so. Thus the
responsibility was upon the prosecut-
or while a wise check was held upon
him.
The East Oregonian believes that
before another election occurs the
people Of Oregon will be ready TO go
back to the former system
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
THE SOUL BEAUTIFUL.

'Tis not the beauty of the face.
Nor the size of the woman's shoe,
But it's always her soulful grace,
And what she herself can do.
When you've returned from work at
night,
And she's standing there in the
door;
The sweet dear one whose heart is
light
There is welcome when the work
is DER.
'Tis then my friend you'll understand
How fair a true woman can be;
Paradise is not half so grand
When your heart is both light and
free.
Then give me the girl that's so true
In preference to the dOll-faced type,
You can love her-her thoughts seem
new
She's gentle from morning until
night
Such a one shapes a mans career,
They'll both be happy together;
Clouds Of sorrow will ne'er appear
And through life is pleasant wealth
er. Gilbert Patten Brown.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
q q - CONTAINS
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Medicines containing Mercury often given suffering with
Contagious Blood Poison and powerful the action of this drug that
the short while and shuts the disease
up the system do greater damage to the delicate internal members
When the treatment left Off the disease awavs and the
patient finds that his health has been injured by this powerful mineral and
often left with weak stomach disturbed digestion mercural heuma
The action of S entirely different contains
Mercury other harmful drug but made entirely of healing
and herbs 1t Contagious Blood Poison by
the blood searches particle the poison
the for future outbreaks s. s. S. in
addition curing the disease builds and strengthens Of the
body fine effects the stomach and Digestion the
appetite and the entire Home book
medical advice desired sent free to all who
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
THE STAR OF YOUTH.

Happy the man who, through
strength or through luck, guides his
whole life by the star Of his youth.
Happy. but how rare"
This is a passage that occurs in
one of David Graham Phillips books.
II was spoken OF a public man-one
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
Sleep Walker Hurt In Fall.

While walking in his sleep, Joseph
Kipling fell Is feet from a second
story window in the lodging house at
Port Blakely, where he lived, Wednes-
day. Both of his wrists were broken.
Kipling says he is a cousin Of Rudyard
Kpling, the well known writer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
Noted smuggler Dead.

James Kelley, for the past 20 years
known as one Of the most notorious
smugglers on the Pacific coast, is
dead near Port Townsend. He was
nearly go years OF age.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-05
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+ = = = = = = ~ .
= said: I will be glad today !
+ The rain clouds drift along the I
= hills. !
+ The grass is drown in lakes and I
= The birds of song are chilled I
= and mute.
Z The dreariness seems absolute; I
+ And yet I will be glad today! I
+ will be glad today, today, I
Z For summer suns again will I
+ shine,
Z The air will thrill like tonic 1
+ wine.
+ The birds will sing as ne'er be- I
+ fore.
+ And with these blessings yet in 1
+ store.
4 Why should l not be glad to-
+ Exchange. I
80 = : *+* + ; = + +
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15
SPIDER AIRsHIps.
How the Young Insects Sail Away
With tho Wind.

How the Young Insects Sail Away
With tho Wind.
In early autumn the spider families
separate. Hundreds of thousands of
infantile spiders on a warm sunny
morning scale the low bushes, cling to
the tips of the leaves and project slen-
der silken threads from the spinnerets
at the ends OF their bodies. Before
very long the afr near the ground, be-
coming heated ascends and carries up
the silken threads with it. Still the
little creatures hold on and pour out
silk till each has some eight or ten
feet of line rising almost perpendicu-
larly into the air above It.
At last they let go and rise into the
air themselves, each at the extremity
Of its own thread. In this way they
are carried upward. perhaps for many
hundreds Of feet, TIL at last they meet
a current Of air moving slowly along,
and by this they are carried often for
many miles, while they can always
descend at win by the simple expe-
dent Of rolling up their supporting
threads.
On warm autumn morning the air
is often filed with these baby spiders,
each sailing securely on its own little
silken airship. When they descend
bushes, trees and low plants are IRE
Quently covered with their gossamer
threads.-London Standard.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15
Power in the Clearwater.

In another column of this issue of
Mining News appears an article from
Joe Wilson, relative to the use of the
power in the Clearwater river to de-
velop the mineral resources of these
mountain districts, and establishing
factories for converting the raw pro-
ducts of the territory into manufactured
articles. The subject Mr.. Wilson has
written on is not new subject, but the
fact that one of Idaho county's sub
stantial business men and long time
citizens has given the subject consid-
GRAFTON to the extent of writing about
it to his home paper gives added inter
est to the matter at this time.
This is the age of electricity. Elec-
trical power is fast taking the places of
all other powers in manufacturing and
transportation industries.
There is great power going to waste
in the Clearwater river, simply because
men with capital have not been inter
ested enough to make use of it. If the
same power were to be had in older
and farther advanced sections of the
country, capital would pay big sum
for it.. City corporations pay for fran
chises that yield small dividends com
pared with the profit that could be
earned by power plant on the Clear
water. Mr.. Wilson has mentioned
number of manufactures that might
use the power. The institutions he
mentions are more than possibilities in
the future, not far distant, but the use
of power in the mining districts is the
point he makes that appeals strongest
to the majority of the readers of this
paper. There is need of cheaper power
in the mines at this time, and great
deal of it could be used. Cheaper
power will do more to open up the min
eral resources of central Idaho than any
other agency can possibly do.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15

I am reliably informed that here at oul
neighboring town lof Harpster on the
South Fork, with "a miles of ditch o,
fiume rs feet head with 300 cubic feet
per second and with 2 IA miles of f1ume
100 feet head can be attained at the
lowest stage of water. See what cheap
electric power that would furnish, anc
as you travehalong the Clearwater from
Lewiston to Sites, with grain fields as
far as the eye can reach on both sides
Of you, yet there is but one Touring
mill on the whole distance; not an elec-
trio light or power plant. We raise the
wheat, hogs, cattle, and vegetables,
ship them to Spokane or Chicago, have
them "classed" up for us and shipped
back, paying transportation charges
both ways, With cheap power we can
have our own Touring mills, packing
plants, canneries, saw mills, machinery
shops, etc., and with the mining country
around us for market. we could be an
empire in reality. And now word to
the farmers of the Clearwater and
Camas prairie countries. Iwant to call
their attention to the Denatured Alco-
hol bill that passed congress at the last
session. consider it one of the best
pieces of legislation that has been en-
acted for many years. see by the
press dispatches that the large distillers
and wholesalers are inclined to poo-poo
at it, claiming that it is so encountered
and hedged about with regulation that
it is impracticable for small firms or in
dividuals to engage in, but such is not
the case, and if anyone who is inter-
ested will send to the internal revenue
collector at Salt Lake, Utah, he will
get, free of charge, the law and regula-
lions, and study them for himself and
with few explanations from some one
who has had some actual experience in
withdrawing alcohol from distillery
warehouse he will find the process is
very simple. Now, why not call
meeting at your school house or some
convenient place and discuss this mat
ter. We would all be a John D."
financially if we could, so why sit
around and find fault with the poor
qualities of the big prices for the oil the
Standard company furnishes you, when
with little study and experience you
can turn.all your unmarketable grains,
fruits and vegetables into something
that will do more to relieve the burden
than all the legislation that will pass
congress for fifty years. Do it!
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15

Toe Wilson in Sites Sentinel
One may hear much talk nowadays
regarding cheap transportation and
there is no doubt in the mind Of anyone
but that it would do as much toward
the development of the mining districts
of Newsome, Elk City, Orogrande, Dixie
and Buffalo Hump. but as we can not
get cheap transportation we must do
the next best~thing. There is another,
and. to my mind, fully as great factor
in the development OF this county, viz
CHEAP POWER. Using wood for
power in this country is what Josh Bill
lings would call IA Burning" question.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15
FORFEITURE NOTICE.

ELK City, Idaho, January z, 1903.
To John U. Cassell, your admimstrat-
ors, executors, heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that we have
expended during the year 1907 the sum
of $500 in labor and improvements upon
Florence A No. l, Florence A Mo. 2,
Florence A No. 8, Florence A No. a,
Florence A No. 5, and 500 upon Flor
ence A Fraction, and 800 upon Rough
No. and Gold Dirt No. Q, and 500
upon Buster No. l, lode mining claims,
all situated in Ramey Ridge Mining Dis
trict, Idaho county, Idaho, in order to
hold said claims under the provisions of
Section 1924 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States and the amendment
thereof approved January %. 1880, con-
corning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required to
hold said mining claims for the year
1907; that you hold one-sixth interest
in Florence A No. l, Florence A No. 2,
Florence A No. 3, Florence A No. a,
Florence A No. S; one-third interest
in Florence A Fraction; a one-third in
terest in Rough and Ready; one-third
interest in Gold Dirt No. l and Gold
No. 2; one-third interest in Buster
No. !, mining claims,
AND II Within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or within
ninety days after the publication thereof
you fail to pay the charges for this ad-
vertisement and contribute your portion
of said expenditure as follows, to-wit:
$83. 33 for your one-sixth interest in
Florence A No. /, Florence A No. 2,
Florence A No. 8, Florence A No. 4,
Florence A No. 5, and $33. 33 for your
onethird interest in Florence A Frac-
ton, and S33. 33 for your ,one-third in
terest in Rough and Ready, and S66. 66
for your one-third interest in Gold Dirt
No. and Gold Dirt No. 2, and 1913. 80
for your one-third interest in the Buster
No. l, mining claims, in all $249. SO, and
the charges for this advertisement, your
interests in the said claims will become
the property. of the subscribers, your
co-owners, who have made the required
expenditure, by the terms of said Sec
ton.
CLAYTON C. VANCE,
Poetoffice address Elk City, Idaho.
M. B. MERRITT,
Postoffice address Twin Bridges, Mon
tana.
j11-apr4
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15

Criticism 70 Which The Duke Of Wei
Iinpton Objected.

Criticism 70 Which The Duke Of VEL
IInoton Objected.
Discussion OF the best pronunciation
of Latin recalls to the Liverpool Post
story about tho Duke of Wellington.
1t was about the year 1874, and the
chancellor in his gorgeous robes was
reading the honor lisa aloud. The list
was. Of course, In Latin, and yelling
ton knew more about the handling Of
brigades than about Latin quantities.
Whenever the name Carolus occurred
the duke persisted In pronouncing the
"o' long-"Caro-luA~
It was at Last too much for one Of
the dons standing behind him, 70, lean
ing over. be whispered, III your grace
VIII excuse me. should Ike to point
out that at Oxford ~ call that word
'Car-olus'~
VERY good" said the duke. Thank
you III rsmembee." Presently came
the name Jacobus. which, mindful OF
his lesson, he pronounced "Jac-obus."
Again the don leaned over. Il hum-
bly, beg your srace's pardon, but that
name Il 'Jaco- bus.'"
'Hang It ALL muttsrsd wellington.
you can't chop and change liz thati
Carolus and Jaco-bus or Car-olu and
Jac-obus, whichever you lfks. But
stick to your own Eplas. Il you please"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15
The Way Of the World.

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow it's
mirth,
But has trouble enough, of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer,
Sight is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you,
Grieve and they turn and go,
They want full measure of all your
pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many,
Be sad and you lose them all;
There is none to decline your nectar'd
wine,
But alone you must drink lfes
gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded,
Fast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give, and it helps you to
hive,
But no man can help you die!
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
John A. Joyce.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15

Entered at the Elk City, Idaho, Post
Office for transmission through the
mails as second-class matter.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15

A Weekly Journal Devoted to the inter-
ests of the Elk City, Red River,
Orogrande. Newsome, Dixie and
Buffalo Hump Mining Camps.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-15
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-26

55th Congress, a place he has since
filed with distinguished success, and
also to membership on the Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Mr.. Sherman's most important legis-
lative work has perhaps been done on
the Indian Affairs Committee He is
credited with a better understanding OF
the various questions connected with
the governments obligations to the In
dians and its efforts to fulfill them.
than that of any other Congressman
who has been called upon to deal with
this subject
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-26
Obligations Of Civil War.

Money indebtedness is not the only
obligation we incurred and assumed
In the great civil war. There was a
still greater debt, an everlasting obli-
cation that could never be paid in full
But in the years that have followed.
the Republican party has inaugurated
and developed pension laws under
which over three and one-half billion
dollars have been paid to disabled
veterans or to the survivors of those
who gave their lives for their country
and their flag. This pension system, a
product of the policy Of the Republican
party has no precedent In history and
no equal in justice and generosity
among the nations Of the earth.-Hon.
James s. Sherman.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-26

You ask me what think of a pro-
vision that no restraining order or in
junction shall issue except after notice
to the defendant and hearing had.
This was the rule under the Federal
statutes for many years. but was subse-
quently abolished. In the class of cases
to which you refer ! do not see any
objection to the re-enactment Of that
Federal statute. Indeed, | have taken
occasion to say in public speeches that
the power to issue injunction ex parte
has given rise to certain abuses and
injustice to the laborers in a peacea BILE
strike.-Hon. VIM. III. Taft, in CORE
spondence with President LleweIyp
Lewis, of the Ohio Federation of La
hpr
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-26
TAFT COMES FROM GOOD STOCK
Family Ranked Among the Plain
People for Many Years.

The Tafts-those who at present are
the Tafts--hail ancestrally from Tx
bridge, Mass. They say that Tafts are
so thick in Uxbridge that even wom-
an can't throw a stone without hitting
one.
Some years ago--in 1874, to be exact
there was Taft reunion in Tx
bridge, to which descendants OF the
original Robert Taft came fiocking
from all parts Of the country. One OF
the conspicuous features of the a1alr
was historical. address by Alphonso
Taft, father Of the present Republican
candidate. He traced the history of
various branches of the family, and
when he came to the one to which he
and his children belonged he said:
"Our family have not embarked much
upon national politics, except that they
have shared in the battles of the coun-
try when national independence was
to be won, and also when the Union
was at stake. But brilliant political
careers have not been characteristic Of
the Tafts In the past. 1t is not safe to
say what may be in store for them.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
and also Of families"
This is taken from the account of
the reunion published at the time. AL
phonso Taft would perhaps have been
somewhat dazzled IL he could have fore.
seen how quickly and brilliantly the
family would proceed to embark upon
national politics." He himself started
the turn OF the tide which he predict
ed. 1t seems to be reaching its food
In the career Of the son who that year
was entering Yale.
AS Alphonso Taft described his i'm
mediate ancestors one sees where his
son got certain characteristics. Peter
Taft (1715) was "a large, good-look-
ing man Of magnanimous disposition. y
He had four sons.
Aaron, the candidates ancestor, was
also 20 ma2nanimous that ne lost
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-26
An interesting Railway.

An interesting railway will be open
ed In Moscow. Russia. in the near fu-
ture. The line forms an irregular
oval around Moscow at various dis.
tances from the city barriers. 1t In
tersects all nine of the Moscow rail-
way lines and will be used for trans
ferring goods from one line to another,
thereby saving carriage and also con-
siderably relieving the congested state
of the streets of Moscow It will also
tap whole series of factories which,
have hitherto been off any line.