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Squirrels Nab Dynamite

Winsted, Conn.-Alexander w.
kegner, laborer. left ten sticks of
dynamite beside a large rock beneath
q chestnut tree, while he drilled holes
IN number of large stones prepara-
tory to blowing them to pieces with
dynamite.
When he went for the explosive he
found squirrels busily engaged eating
the stuff, little of which remained. He
thinks they must have boarded most
OF it, but hunters are wondering what
will be the result if they happen to
shoot one of the dynamite-flled squir.
rels.
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Light ! i 81
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W. w: JACOBS
TO HAVE AND
TO HOLD
Copyright. Dodd. Mead Company.) >

The old man sat outside the Cauli-
flower inn, looking Grossly up the
road. He was fond of conversation,
but the pedestrian who had stopped to
drink mug of ale beneath the shade
OF the doors was not happy in his
choice Of subjects.
Conversation languished; the travel
or raped on the table and had his
mug refllled. He nodded courteously
to his companion and drank.
You're another Job Brown" said
the old man, irritably, that's wot you
your kind afore."
He shifted farther along the seat,
and, taking up his long clay pipe from
the table, struck match and smoked
the few whiffs which remained.
"Wot I said just now about you be-
ing like Job Brown was only in joke
like" he said. anxiously, as he tasted
the brew. IF Job 'ad been like you
he'd ha been better man."
The philanthropist bowed.
He was one O the ardest drinkers
in these parts" began the old man,
slowly, filling his pipe.
The traveller thanked him.
Sometimes e used to get pitiful
over it. and sit shaking is cad at em
for drowning themselves in beer, as he
called it, when they ought to be Civ
ing the money to their wives and
families. He sat down and cried one
night over Bill Chambers wife's toes
being out of 'er boots. Bill sat struck
all OF cap, and it might ave passed
off, only Henery White spoke up for
i'm, and said that he scarcely ever 'ad
a pint but wot somebody else paid
for it. There was unpleasantness all
round then, and in the row somebody
knocked one O. Henery's teeth out
"And that wasn't the only unpleas
antness. and at last some of the chaps
put their eads together and agreed
among themselves to try and helI
Job Brown to give up the drink. They
KEEP it secret from Job, but the next
time e came in and ordered a pint Joe
Gubbins-'aving won the toss-dranh
it by mistake, and went straight of
'ome as ard as e could, smacking is
lips.
He 'ad the best of it, the Other
chaps aving to old Job down in is
chair, and trying their ardest to ex
plain that Joe Gubbins was only doing
him a kindness.
He kept very tight old o the
next pint. and as e set down at the
table he looked round nasty like ant
asked 'em whether there was any
more as would like to do i'm a kind
ness, and Henery White said there
was, and he went straight off 'ome ar
ter fust dropping handful O. sawdus
into Jobs mug.
I'm an old man, an I've seen ;
good many rows in my time. but I've
never seen anything like the one tha
'appened then. 1t was no good talk
ing to Job, not bit, he being tha
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unreasonable that even when is own
words was repeated to i'm he would
mt listen. He behaved like madman.
an the langwidge e used was that
fearful and that wicked that Smith
the landlord said e wouldn't ave it
in is house.
"Arter that you'd ha' thought that
Job Brown would ave left off is talk
about being teetotaler, but he didn't.
1T was through that at last e came
to offer five pounds reward to any
body as could 'elp i'm to become a
teetOtaler He went off 'ome one
night as usual and arter stopping a
few seconds in the parlor to pull his
self together, crept quietly upstairs
for fear of waking is wife. He saw
by the crack under the door that she'd
left a candle burning, so he pulled
hisself together agin and then turned
the 'andle and went in and began to
try an take off is coat.
He 'appened to give a 'alf-look to-
wards the bed as e did so, and then
e started back and rubbed is eyes
and told 'imself he'd be better in a
minute. Then e looked agin, for is
wife was nowhere to be seen, and in
the bed all fast and sound asleep and
snoring their 'ardest was little, Dick
Weed the tailor and Mrs. Weed and
the baby
Get up ses job. ardly able to
speak. I'm surprised at you. Get
up out o my bed direckly
"'YOur bed?' screams little Dick;
you're the worse for licker, Job
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PUT 1 BuR6l 70 r. :. :.
RoUT IN NIGR1IES
sTUDENTs OF NEW JERSEY
STATE NORMAL AND MODEL
# SCHOOLS IN MAN HUNT.

Trenton. N. J.-With guards within
and guards without and guards all
around their walls the State Normal
and Model Schools here would seem
to harbor anything but a bevy of
young misses bent ON learning how to
teach. All of this guarding has come
to pass because of an experience
pretty Miss Roberta Duryea, stu
dent, of Freehold, N. j., had with. a
bold, bad burglar man the other night.
Near midnight Miss Duryea was
awakened in her quarters in the main
dormitory by disturbance at her bed
side.
who's there?" asked Miss Duryea
drowsily:. 49,.
She believed for a moment that her
roommate. who had arranged to go
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
NATURE As A FAKER.
Sometimes Deceives Even the Trained
Eye Of the Scientist.

On the so-called Table Mounds of
Iowa are numerous Impressions of
what look exactly like cloven feet. It
is not surprising that superstitious
people should attribute them to the
devil, taking his walks abroad, though
as a matter Of fact, they are not foot
prints of any kind whatsoever, but
merely weather-worn impressions left
by species of mollusk-like animal
known to science as pentamerus.
To the Smithsonian institution not
long ago somebody sent from the Bad
Lands of Nebraska what purported to
be a fossil ham. 1t did in very truth
look like ham, and, to render the
verisimilitude complete, the bone was
actually sticking out at one end of it..
Nevertheless, an investigation showed
| that the alleged bone was In reality
"vaculite"-an extinct mollusk's 8
shell, rodlike in form-and the rest
of the ham" was mere accidental
agglomeration of stony stuff.
One day, quite. recently, a young
man walked into the National museum
at Washington and presented to the
anthropologist in charge petrified
| foot 1t was received with many
thanks, though recognized at 4 glance
as water-worn fragment of rock
which had accidentally assumed a
shape resembling foot.
Such chance limitations as these fire.
Quently occur in nature. Another one,
deposited in the same institution, was
supposed by the finder to be petrified
| oyster. 1t looks as if on the half
shell; all its parts are wonderfully dis
tinct, and there is even a small pearl
in it seemingly. Yet it is not an
oyster at all.
Many years ago the "eozoon' was
| introduced as fossil to wondering
world by Sir William Dawson, an en-
inent geologist. 1t was accepted by
science for quite a while as the earli-
est and oldest Of known animals-the
dawn animal" as ito name signifies.
| Recent scientific investigation how
ever, has proven that it is not. and
never was, an animal at all. 1t is
merely a curious crystalline combina-
ton of two minerals which has the
| look of something that once upon a
| time was alive.
1t has recently been proved that
many markings on sedimentary rocks,
long supposed to be fossil prints of al
| gaze and other plants. are in reality
tracks left by insects, mollusks and
worms. Some of these alleged plants"
had actually received names and been
classified into genera and species.-
| Saturday Evening Post
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Rode on RUNAWAY Mina cac.

Wllkesbarre. Pa.-Alternately hoist.
ed and lowered at full speed up the
Lance colliery shafts some 80 or 40
times, Charles Edwards, mine work
er, had a thrilling experience, and
was saved from death only by the cool
ness and quick action of Charles
Young
The trottle Of hoisting engine
which Young was running became
c,ogged and he found he could not
step it.
There was but a fraction of a Sec
cnd to act when he made the dlscov-
cry, but it was enough. Young re.
rersed the engine, and kept reversing
It every time the cage was close to the
TOP or bottom until other employees
arrived and shut off the steam.
Edwards was in state of COLLAPSE
when taken from the cage.
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Not an Iqnoramus.

Mr.. Ringruled-That Englishman
appears to know good deal about
this country.
Mr.. Taxedhigh-Whys so?
Mr.. Ringruled-When l spoke of the
siories of freedom and self-govern~
2lent, he laughed.-N. Y Weekly.
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One Of the Three.

well, there were only three boys
In school to-day who could answer ore
question that the teacher asked u.s.,
said proud boy Of eight.
And l hope my boy was one of the
three" said the proud mother.
You bet / was" answered Young
Hopeful, "and Sam Harris and Harry
Stone were the other two"
Il am very glad you proved yourself
80 good scholar, my son; it makes
your mother proud of you What ques.
ton did the teacher ask, Johnnie?"
"'Who broke the glass in the back
Window"
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Evidently an Error

"The papers say" said Mrs. Old
castle, that Mr. Robinson died intes-
tate"
Why replied her hostess, "therc
must be some mistake about that. J
heard he died in New Jersey.-Chta&:
60 Recorl-Herald. =
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A Long Wait.

"Wel1, J2sse," said New England
er, on retu ming to his native Vermont
town after an absence of several years,
how are things? Are you married
yet? And did that rich old uncle of
yours leav" you any money!"
mo, l amt married yet; nor amt
likely to b., so far's l kin see,' an
swered Jesse, despondently. If Uncle
Bill had done as he ought to, s'pose
I'd been settled down in house of my
own long time ago."
$50 he didn't leave you a cent
That's +co lad!"
"Yes; an it puts me an Mary in an
awful hard place. There ain't nothin'
for us t. do now but to set down an
wait for sor,e O. her folks to die"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
How They Became Prominent.

Can yOu," asked the teacher, tell
las anything about Sodom and Gcnicr.
rah?'
Yes replied little Egbert, they
We're some old towns that got famous
by having Pittsburg and Chicago COM
pared to them" ."-Chicago Record Her.
aid.
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An Intelligent Child.

MI S1V1S11VSCTJV VV1tOs
A small boy was playing with tho
scissors, and his kindly old grand
mother chided him.
"You musn't play with the scissors
dear. I know little boy like you who
was playing with pair of scissors
just like that pair, and he put them in
his eye and put his eye out. and he
could never see anything after that"
The child listened patiently, and
said, when she got through the mar.
rative:
What was the matter with hio
other eye?"-Bystander.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
THE DIFFERENCE,

Jones-You never hear of a fat
criminal, do you?
Bones-Certainly not. Look how
difficult it would be for a stout person
to stoop to anything low!
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
Know Friend Thorouoh

If man is worth knowing at all he
is worth knowing well.-Alexander
Smith.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
Good Stunt.

How do YOU prezerve your teeth 80
beautifullyi'
Il never ea,y any tooth powder from
4 dentist" st."-Cleveland Leader.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-11
eTATH OF OHIO CIrY OF TOLEDO.
SS

6TATR OF ONO CITY OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COUNTY. s..
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is senior
partner OF the firm OF F. J. CHENEY Il Co.. doing
business in the City OF Toledo County and Stats
Aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case OF CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presenoe.
this 6th day Of December. A. D.. 1886.
! A. W. GLEASON,
t~) NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF ths
system. Send for testimonials free.
F. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, @.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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A Cheerful Guesser,

A Cheerful Guesser.
What does an actor mean by a fat
part?'"
NJ don't know, but from The oleagin-
GUS sound 1 should judge it means tho
olio." kansas City Times.
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Western Canada

homestead and 100 at $500 per acre.
"A vast rich country and a contented pros
porous people from co>1estorderes
~ q National Editor. fUhose o'isif to Wssf<r'N
Ca~ada. i~ Axemsf 1905. az instiratios
Many have paid the entire cost of theil
farms and had balance of from $1,000 I'd
$4,000 per acre as result of one crop.
Spring wheat, winter wheat oats, barley.
flax and peas are the principal crops, while
the wild grasses bring to perfection the
best cattle that have ever been sold on
the Chicago market.
Splendid climate, schools and churehea
in all localities. Railways touch most a
the settled districts, and prices for produce
are always good. Lands may alao be pur.
chased from railway and land companies
For pamphlets, maps and information
regarding low railway rates, apply to
Superintendent Of lmmigrat;og
Ottawa, Canada
or to the authorized Canadian Govt Agent:
CHAS. PlLLlN0. Clifford Bit.. Grand fseks, n. Dafs
]. n. MAC LACaIAN. Bog ll6. Watestewn, S. Dsksta3
{. I. HOLMES, SIS Jackson Street. St. tssl. Niaa,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09

All the news ali the time in the
East Oregonian.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
BORDER LINE
RANCH SOLD
SPANISH RANCH SOLD
FOR MILLION DOLLARS
Sheep in Southeastern Oregon Do Not
Bring as High Prices As In This
Section. Says DIR. Lytle-Lambs for
$3.50 Per Head-3O,OOO Ewes for
SS7 900.

In the extreme southeastern part
of the state and in Nevada sheep do
not bring the good prices that are
paid here. DR.. Lytle, who returned
yesterday from that section, says
that recently 10000 head of lambs
were sold for $3.50, while 10000 old
ewes were sold in one lot for the sum
of $4,000. The sheep were small
merinos and were owned by a sheep
man named Yates
4 ranch deal of no slight conse-
quence, was made in that section not
long ago. 1t was the sale of the big
Spanish Ranch, formerly owned by
the Altuba brothers, who are Span
iards. The ranch is 70 miles square
and It sold for a million dollars.
The big ranch is used for running
sheep. cattle and horses. At the
present time 10000 head of sheep
are being run upon the range, 10000
head Of cattle and 10000 head Of
horses.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09

bolGened that whiskey is sold over
the bar by the drink without fear of
detection or prosecution and that
private gambling rooms are being
conducted as of yore by those who
-rankly confess their inability to
make an honest living. OF course it
requires labor, muscular effort direct
ed to some useful end, to make an
honest living, but this is what the
liquor traffic and its attendent evils
discourages.
If reports be true, and they seem
to be well founded, there will be
something doing after the grand jury
meets. To those who have been say
ing. "to hell with the law" it might
he we'll to call their attention to the
fact that where two cases against an
Individual who has been making 4
practice Of violating the local option
law is proven it means Jail sentence.
The court has no discretion in the
matter when the second offcnse is
committed, but is compelled under
The law to commit to Jail for at cast
10 days A few heavy sentences by
the court will not only be productive
Of a wholesome respect for the law,
but it will at once and for ali settle
what now seems a mooted question,
aamely is the sentiment Of the peo-
pie in favor or against the enforce
ment of the local option law? By q
majority Of 700 the saloon was voted
cut of business in this county but It's
enforcement depends upon the efforts
of the prosecuting attorney and the
sheriff of this county. There are
very few who doubt the sincerity of
the prosecuting attorney, but unless
the sheriff is willing to do his duty
II may be expected that the law Will
continue to be violated But this vii!
simply delay, and not defeat the vii!
Of the majority. More effective than
all other forces combined in the crys-
Of anti-saloon sentiment Is
evidence on all sides of disposition
to shamefully disregard the law. II
viii greatly strengthen the local op-
lion vote and the official who fats
10 do his duty will have to look 10
the minority for support at the next
Rock Record.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09

Rev. Il. l.. House, formerly of the
leading Congregational church of
Portland and well known in Pendle-
ton, where he has preached and at
tended Congregational conventions
many times in the past. has startled
Spokane, where he is now located, by
announcing from his pulpit that he
had received a communication by
means of a spirtualist medium from
Reno Hutchinson, the Y, NJ. c. A.
leader who was mysterlously murder
ed in Spokane last September,
An item from Spokane gives DR..
Houses story as follows:
Rev. DR.. Edwin L. House, pastor Of
Westminster Congregational church
of Spokane, created a sensation in the
course of a sermon in describing a
spirit conversation with Reno Hutch
inson, secretary of the Young Mems
Christian association of Spokane who
was mysteriously murdered in the
residential district while on his way
home one evening in September
The words were transmitted through
medium, who declared that the
spirit OF her dead brother was the
means of introducing her to the ghost
of the murdered man and assisted her
in receiving messages from the other
world. Among the statements at
trlbuted to Hutch nsons spirit are the
following:
81 do not know who was my muir
derer.
"I am busy here with religious work
buster than on earth, but able to
do more good than in my body.
My message to the men Of spo-
kane is: Be more earnest than ever
in Christian work and open more Of
your homes to homeless young men.
"If my family were to be told that
my spirit had come back to earth and
was communicating with friends they
would be skeptical. I am perfectly
happy and I am watching my family
and know they are happy"
DR.. House said that while the con.
versation was not entirely satisfactory
he does not believe the medium acted
with any intention of fraud. He has
known her for years and says she Is a
woman of refinement and that her
family is one of the oldest and best
known in the northwest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
TIMBER TAX FIGHT.
Klamath County to Go After TIM
ber Interests.

klamath Falls, Ore, Sept. 9.-The
county court of klamath county for
several days considered the matter
Of a compromise in the Hunter Land
company tax case, which has been in
litigation for some time. The Hunter
company owns about 10000 acres Of
timber in this county, which was
originally a portion of the military
road grant. extending across the
southern portion of Oregon. The
lands of this company were assessed
without a cruise being made, the as
SCISSOR using his judgment in fixing
the value of the timber owned by the
company The total tax for the year
1907 amounted to $5,047.33, but the
corporation refused to pay, making
the claim that the tax was excessive
and unjust. Instead of paying the
full amount the sheriff was rendered
$112O, which he accepted, and gave a
receipt for partial payment.
No other payment was made and
in accordance with the law the lands
we're advertised to be sold under the
hammer. The date Of the sale was set
for February 2S, but a few days be-
fore the company secured a restrain
ing order and the sheriff was enjoin-
ed from making the sale. There were
no further developments until the
past week, when a representative of
the company appeared before the
county court and made a number of
to effect a compromise.
Instead Of paying the county the
cash they offered to turn in cruisers
estimates on their lands. Some of
the lawyers that had been retained
by the county advised a compromise,
but the district attorney and Judge
Thomas Drake, also retained by the
advised against such a pro-
cedure. Most of the lawyers in the
city are interested in the case, and
as the county has rejected all prop
ositions a hard legal battle is pend
ing.
steps will be taken A once to pro-
ceed to collect the taxes. or else tol
sell the lands to satisfy the county's
claims.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
Miners, Row Ends in Death.

Redding. Calf, Sept. 9,-Deputies
are searching today for j. A. Reid,
who caused the death Of j. B. Will
son by stabblng him with miners
candlestock. The wound was inflict-
cd last Wednesday in the Gladstone
mine, in a fight over the disappear
ance Of a shovel.
Wilson was apparently not serious
ly hurt, but Sunday night he suffered
a relapse, which resulted in his death.
Reid was not arrested at the time Of
the duel in the mine, as 1t was gen.
orally understood he acted in self
defense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
SAVED BY STAGE DRIVER.
Nine Persons and Entire Stage Held
on Edge of Cliff.

Chico. CAL Sept. 9--Nine persons
were hurt, but all were saved from
death by the heroic action of Dan
Jones, the driver, when the Richard
son springs stage coach turned over
on a steep grade today.
The accident was caused by a
wheel becoming detached from the
axle. The stage suddenly lurched
and was topping over when Jones,
with lighting activity, jumped from
his seat and put his sholder under
the axle.
In this manner he supported the
stage until the most dangerous part
of the precipice had been passed, but
no sooner was the immediate danger
of death to all in the coach overcome,
than he collapsed and the coach went
over.
Jones was badly crushed under one
of the horses. and while the extent of
his injuries is not known, yet 1t Is
feared he may not Recover from the
terrific strain.
The passengers in the coach were
badly shaken up and thrown about,
all receiving severe bruises.
The whole accident, with the he
roic work of the driver, took but a
few seconds. Reports received here
say that the wheel slipped off at
place where there would have been
little hope for anyone in the coach IL
Jones had not met the emergency.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
RpeWcrs To Meet.

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 9.-Methods OF
stemming the prohibition wave will
be considered at the annual meeting
Of the United States Brewmasters'
association, to be held here beginning
September 81.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
.DR. HOUSE HEARS
A SPIRIT VOICE
SPOKANE MINISTER STAR
Tiles HIS HEARERS

Minister Well Known
In Pendleton Declares From His
Pulpit That lie Received Spirit
Message from Murdered Y. NJ. c..
A. Leader-Intercst Is Added Be
cause DIR. House Is Not Spiritual
ist. But n Congregationallst.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-09
TO Study Fisheries.

Washington, Sept. 9.-Visits to
New York, Boston, Gloucester, Bal
timore and Chicago, where the fish
and oyster Industries will be studied,
have been arranged for the European
fish experts who will attend the In
ternational Fisheries congress In
Washington, opening September %.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-01
A Good-Wish Rose.

"A clever idea was carried ont at a
recent shower for bride-to-be, %
says July Womans Home Companion.
In the invitation each guest was re.
quosted TO send in, prior 10 the party,
wish for the bride. The hostess
made a beautiful large white paper
rose, and before putting it together
she wrote on each petal "A Wish and
the name of the wisher AS Is usual
ln most cages some of the guests ior.
got TO send in "a wish but brought
one With them, and others wrote Them
after they arrived For this purpose
a large paper rosebud had been made
Into which the wishes we're slipped
and the bud twisted up again. The
guest Of honor was charmed with the
rose and rosebud, and said thar she
should always keep it as pleasant
reminder OF her friends. whom she
was soon TO leave for a new home ln
a distant city"