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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20

Portland, Feb. 2O,--Today's ses-
sion in the Waymire Radding con-
spiracy case was taken up with lis
tening to the testimony of number
OF the minor witnesses. The state
will probably rest tomorrow and Mrs
Waymire will then tell her version OF
the affair.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
Tennessee Singers Here Tonight

The Tennessee Jubilee Singers will
come to the NJ. E. church tonight
for a two-nights engagement after
playing to good houses at. Athena and
Weston The party is composed of
eight colored people and excellent en-
tertainment is furnished. The sing
ers appear tonight and tomorrow
night at the NJ. E. church.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20

In letter to Judge s A. Lowell
of this city, Mrs T. G. HALEY says
that her husband, who submitted to
an operation several days ago. is i'm
proving satisfactorily and there is now
every hope of his ultimate recovery.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
Jubilee Singers Tonight.

The famous Tennessee Jubilee
singers come to .Pendleton for the
first time tonight. Hear them and
see what the colored folks really can
do in soul stirring song and planta-
ton melodies. There are eight of
them and each one an artist. They
are recommended by the best judges
in the land. Program begins at s
O'Clock at M. r. church.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
UNION PACIFIC TO SELL BONDS
Thirty-Five Million In Bonds to Pay
OFF Floating Debt-Mortgage ON
Branch Lines.

New York, Feb. 2O.-The directors
of the Union Pacific have decided to
sell at once according to well found
ed reports, not less than $4,000, 900
of bonds to pay off the floating debt,
1t is said that the bonds will be Sc
cured on 1900 miles of track in Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Kansas and Colorado.
There is already a mortgage on the
main line of road secured in 1897,
Since that time the lines about to be
mortgaged have been built.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
TO PUNISH OLD BILL FTENDS.
Federal Court of Oregon Will At
tempt to Reach Petty Crimes.

Since bills of several defunct banks
have been recently passed in Pendle-
ton the following item from the Ore
gon Daily Journal will be of interest:
The federal government is to make
an effort to convict the quartet ar
rested several days ago on suspicion
of having passed number of defunct
state bank notes of Georgia, on a
charge of using the United States
mails to defraud, says the Journal
r. W. Wells, ]. n. Saylor, Frank
Caviness and NJ. ]. Dorsey were ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner Edward Mckee in the fed
eral building this morning and the
hearing will be postponed until
Tuesday at the request of the counsel
for the defendants.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
Snow Blockade Raised.

Omaha, Feb. 2O.-The 4S-hour
blockade on the Rock Island road was
raised today and six stalled passen~
ger trains were released. The bliz-
zard has blockaded all traffic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
Furniture for Sale.

Owing to our removal from the city
we are offering our furniture for sale
and any one wishing to buy can get
bargains by calling at our residence.
.Sl2 Thompson street Saturday and
Monday next.
MRS. II. E. BICKERS,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
Court Decision.

Several years ago the late Judge
Bellnger handed down a decision that
passing defunct bank note was not
an act which would hold the prison.
er liable to answer a charge of coun-
terfeiting United states currency.
Owing to this fact the government
agents have not been able to prose-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20

Charles F. Young, grand chief
ranger of the Foresters of America
is dead at his home in Rochester, New
York.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-20
T. G. HALEY ImprovInp.

MRS. H. E. BICKERs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
NOT GENERAL MANAGER.
Justice Brewer Says Public Bears No
Such Relation to Railroads

Washington, March 24-The case or the
interstate commerce commission versus
the Chicago Great Western Railwoy Com
pany, known as the meat rate case and
involving the right of the company to re-
duce the freight rate on live stock pro-
ducts without making similar reduction
in the rate on live stock itself, has been
decided by the supreme court Of the Uni
ted States in favor of the company. The
suit was instituted in the interest of the
city of Chicago. it being alleged that the
charge had worked incalculable hardship
to Chicago by diverting shipments of live
stock from that city to st. Paul and to
Missouri river points. The interstate COM
of the rate on one article without CORE
spending change on the other was unlaw-
full, but the courts refused to uphold that
view
In the course of his opinion Justice
Brewer laid down the following general
proposition:
TT must be remembered that railroads
are the private property of their owners;
that while from the public character of
the work in which they are engaged the
public has the power to prescribe rules for
securing faithful and sufficient service
and equality between shippers and COM
munitieS, yet in no proper sense is the
public general manager. 1t follows that
the railroad companies may contract with
shippers for a single transportation or for
successive transportations subject, though
1t may be, to a change of rates in the
manner provided in the interstate COM
merce act"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
FOLLOW UP MOVE.
Railroads Will Now Attack Reciprocal
DeInurrage Law.

st. Paul. Mimi, March 24.-W. r.
Begg, general solicitor of the Great
Northern railway, in a letter today to
Attorney General Young attacks the
reciprocal demurrage law passed by
the last Minnesota legislature and state
officials infer from his letter that the
railway company will contest the law
on constitutional grounds.
The reciprocal demurrage law pro-
vides for the imposition of penalty
upon the railroads for their failure to
furnish cars within certain prescribed
periods, as well as upon the shipper
for their failure to load Or unload cars
within the time prescribed.
In his letter Mr.. Begg says that con-
gress having fixed the duty of carriers
with reference to furnis hing cars for
interstate shipments the state can not
interfere with that duty either by
making 1t more definite and certain or
by imposing penalties.
The Minnesota law, he says, by its
terms applies 10 all transportation, in
ters tate and intrastate and is void as to
interstate shipments. He argues fur
ther that if the state supreme court
should construe the law as applicable
only to intrastate shipments then it
directly burdens interstate commerce
because Of the penalties imposed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
A. S. THOMAS Is PRESIDENT.
Topeka Motor Boat Owners Complete
Their Organization.

A temporary organization of all
those who are interested in motor
boats was formed last night at a
meeting held in the rooms of the
Santa Fe Watch company on West
Eighth street. The organization will
be known as the Topeka Motor Boat
club. and will be made a permanent
one at a meeting to be held next
Monday night at the same place.
1t is the plan of the club to fix up
City park and to build a boat house
there as well as floating docks. Many
of the local boatmen who have had
their boats at Lake View are COM
ing to Topeka, on account of the lake
at that place becoming very low. The
following officers were elected at the
meeting last night: A. S. Thomas,
president; DIR. A NJ. Edison, vice
president; Fred Gades, treasurer; B.
V. Kelley, secretary.
Those who attended the meeting
last night were: ]. NJ. Brunt F. H.
Gades W. L. Ball. A. H. Koepke, E.
F. McKinstry, F. G. w. Travis, J. F.
Jewell, A. NJ. Edison, A. S. Thomas,
H. P. French, A. NJ. Graham, c. B.
Jennings. NJ. Bates, c.. D. F'itzgfbbons,
o. W. Kelley, o. B. Edison, G. w.
Rehkopf. B. ". Kelley and w. L.
Bates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
She ROBBED HOTELS.
While Masquerading as Countess in
European Cities.

Paris, March 24.-A series of mys-
terious hotel robberieS on the Riviera,
extending over many years, has been
explained in the arrest of the beauti-
ful charming, but masquerading
Countess of Monteil. For years the
Countess of Monteil has entertained
lavishly both at Paris and the Riv-
iera. Her wealth and jewels have
drawn comment and admiration from
far and near. Now she is declared
one of the most Ingenious, successful
and audacfous hotel thieves that has
ever troubled the hotel proprietors of
France. Her arrest at Nice reveals
her not as the captivating, brilliant
countess, but as a thoroughly up-to-
date burglar, carrying concealed in
burglars implements of intricate
workmanship which opened to her
any hotel room on the Rivera which
she knew to contain the coveted
wealth of money and valuables.
Wherever the countess stopped,
there, always, did mysteriously mex
plicab1e robberies battle the police.
Valuables disappeared from the rooms
of rich Americans in the most myster-
ious manner for the doors were al
ways found locked and windows fas-
tened. Gradually, but vaguely the
faintest haze of suspicion began to be
directed toward the Countess of Mon
tell. The cautious agents of the de-
partment of French surety investigat-
ed quietly the history of the countess.
They found that she had been born
Of a respectable French family and
that her maiden name was Ame1ie
Condeimine. She married man
named Portal and came to live in
Paris. Afterward they separated and
Mrs. Portal went to the United States.
Two years later she returned to
France as the Countess of Monteil.
For several years she held brilliant
sway in society. She visited the lead
ing watering places on the continent,
but especially the winter resort in
southern France.
1t was several years ago that the
first thoughts of police suspicion drift
ed toward the countess and her sensa-
tional arrest at Nice at one of the fa-
nous hotels is the elimination of long
and patient watchfulness by French
detectives. Her undoing came in a
moment of overeagerness to rob.
Waiting detectives found her enveI-
bending over the door of the room of
wealthy American tourist When the
woman was searched the police found
hidden in special pockets of her cloak
pinchers, files, skeleton keys, screw
drivers and no fewer than 27 pairs of
small, delfcately made nippers used by
burglars to unlock and lock door
with its own key when the key is on
the inside of the door.
The detectives will seek to prove,
moreover, that the masquerading
tor of a band of hotel robbers mostly
men. some of whom have been arrest
ed, and whose aggregate loot is of
great value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
BACK TO LIFE.
Boy Is Restored After the Doctors
Thought He Was Dead.

New York, March 24.-Declared dead by
a physician after having received 1,6o0
volt shock from a feed wire in the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit company's powerhouse
last night, Stephen Curtis, Is years old,
was restored by artificial inducement of
respiration. Curtis accidentally seized the
wire while at work in the powerhouse.
He was unable to let go and his cries
brought Ralph Stewart, an engineer, to
his assistance. Stewart was himself
shocked and when an ambulance arrived
a surgeon pronounced Curtis dead. Later
a faint movement of the heart being dis
covered, artificial respiration was tried.
After nearly two hours work young Cur
tis was sufficiently recovered to allow of
his removal to hospital. 1t is feared he
will lose his eyesight and it is declared
that had he not been wearing rubber
boots he would have been killed instant
is feared that he too will become blind
through destruction of the optic nerve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
FOUR FIRES A DAY.
Incendiaries Are Unusually Busy in
Joliet, Ill.

Chicago, March 24.-The. fourth
fire Of supposed incendiary origin in
Joliet within "a hours occurred last
night, and, like the three fires Sun
day night, seemed to be directed
against one of the leaders Of the To-
cal option fight. The fire occurred in
the plant Of the Illinois Match COM
pany, which is owned by Colonel
Fred Bennitt, leader of the "drys.''
The fire last night, which followed
the fires in the TRULY grain elevator,
the Leach Windmill plant, and the
Hardy Machine shops, started in the
drying room of the match company S
plant within ten minutes after the
night watchman had passed through
the room on his inspection tour. The
loss is $4,000. Two hundred employees
in the factory will be thrown out of
work for a month. This fact led to
a crowd of angry workmen making
threats if the incendiaries are found.
A number of arrests have been
made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
MANY BRAVES TO GO.
Tammany VIII Be at Denver Conven-
ton 1.40O Strong.

New York, March 24.-From pres
ent indications New York city will
send an almost record breaking dele
cation to the Democratic national
convention at Denver. It il now esti-
mated that Tammany hall will be
represented by not less than 1,400
members. At first 1t was thought
that the amount necessary for rail-
road fares and hotel accommo datfons
would reduce the Tammany delega-
ton to a number far below that gen.
orally found at national conventions,
but Thomas F. Smith, secretary OF
Tammany hall, now announces that
the party will be, II anything, larger
than usual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
SUITS OF CUSTER.
Contemplated Against the Lumber
Trust in Several States.

St. Louis, Mo-, March 24.-An in
vestigation which may be preliminary
to suits of custer in several states
against number of lumber COM
panies, on the grounds that they are
in a conspiracy to control prices and
stiffe competition, was begun here to-
day.
The Investigations follows custer
proceedings recently instituted in the
supreme court by Attorney General
Hadley in which AZ lumber companies
were named as defendants.
Missouri and Texas are the only two
states in the Union that have the
power through enacted legislation OF
conducting such an investigation pre-
liminary to contemplated suits. AS
sistant Attorney General Jewell P.
Lightfoot of Texas, is here to listen
to the evidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
VALUE OF A FOOT.
Court Told Jury $4,000 Was Not
Enough and 1t Was Doubled.

the supreme court at White Plains brought
in verdict for 5000 damages against the
New York City Railway company in a
suit brought in behalf of Patrick Moran,
a boy of four, for the loss of a foot, Judge
Marschauser sent the jury back for fur
ther deliberation. IT do not think the
amount is sufficient" said the judge. ''If
you find for the plaintiff at all the verdict
shocks the sensibilitX of the court 1 think
you must figure on the amount which
his foot and his suffering. If you find
there was contributory negligence, then
you must find for the company"
The jury after going out a second time
returned an hour later with verdict of
$500 for the plaintiff. He sued through
his mother as guardian for $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
BEEF GOES UP.
Packers Say Advance Is Due to Higher
Price for Cattle.

New York March 24.-The price of
meat was advanced yesterday by the
wholesalers. Before the butchers are
through fixing the new price list this
week, meat will be one to two cents
a pound higher than it was a week
ago. The manager of one of the
largest packing concerns in fhe west
said yesterday:
''The scare in the beef market is not
half SO serious as it seems. 1t is true
that the market price for dressed beef
has advanced, but this advance has not
comparatively equalled the price of
live cattle, which has increased during
the last month nearly 81 per hundred
pounds"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
DIR. walter Pollard Here.

DR.. Walter Pollard, the pitcher
from the Evansville team, who was
secured along with Bob Kahl in the
trade for Abbott which was consum-
mated some time ago, arrived in To-
peka this morning and will appear
for the first time in a suit this after
noon. Pollard is a likely looking
pitcher and a good deal is expected
of him. He is physician, having
graduated from the medical depart
ment of Northwestern university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
MERCURY ON UP GRADE.
Conditions in This Section of the State
Those of Real Spring.

The weather conditions today are
those of Indian summer, the sky a
deep hazy blue without a cloud in
sight anywhere to mar the perfectness
of the occasion. The temperatures,
too. have been those of an ideal mid
summer day with the maximum of 65
reached at 1 o'clock. The wind has
blown steadily from the north all day
at the rate of II miles an hour and is
in keeping with the temperatures of
the day. Partly cloudy says the
weather man. "Wednesday without
much if any change in the tempera-
ture readings" The story of the trav-
els of the mercury today is told by
the figures in the following table:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
AN AMERICAN JOCKEY UP.
Probably Why .Kaffir Chief,'' a 100 to
Shot, Won in England.

Lincoln, Eng. March 24.-The
Lincolnshire handicap 1900 sovereigns
for 3-year-oldS and upwards, the first
big race of the spring season, was car
ried off today by J. H. Martin, an
American jockey on F. S. Barnard s
started. 'Kaffir Chief'' was an out
slider and started in the betting at 100
TO T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
Carnegie Gives $1,000.

New York, March 24.-Andrew Car
negie has contributed $1,000 to the
fund being raised to erect a monu-
ment in memory of Deputy Chief Kru-
ger and other firemen who have been
killed recently in the performance of
their duty. The fund now totals $27,-
367 and will be largely added to by
three benefit performances which are
to be given in New York and Brooklyn
amusement places this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
death From Heart Failure

Lawrence. Kan, March 24-George
Clarke an old man who lived in the
east part of town, was found dead in
bed Monday. He has one daughter
living in Kansas City, Mrs. Ollie Wood.
Heart failure is the attributed cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
Duke OF Devonshire Is Dead

Cannes. March 24.-Spencer Comp
ton Cavendish, eighth duke of Devon.
shire, died here today of heart failurs.
He was born July 20, 1888.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
Weather Indications

Weather Indirat1Ons.
Chicago, March 24-Forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy tonight and We'd
nesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Continued on Page Six,
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16
INDUCING
IT TO BEAR

1t isn't often that the Colorado
fruit grower is concerned about his
fruit trees not setting fruit, as the
general tendency of most varieties is
to overbear. There are some varie-
ties, however. which are slow in COM
ing into bearing, and individual trees
of standard varieties some times fail
to set fruit.
Horticulturists have for many
years practieed various methods to
induce fruitfulness and with some
.egree of success. All these methods.
as girding the trunk, root pruning,
and summer pruning of the branches
temporarily check the growth of the
tree, and the consequent slow growth
induces the formation of fruit buds.
1t is well-known that the buds which
produce fruit in any particular sea-
son were formed the season before
and their formation is believed to be-
gin early in the growing season. This
being true, the time is now at hand
for such work; If put off much later
in the season, it will be too late. as
the time for the formation of fruit
buds for next years crop will soon
be passed.
BY root pruning is meant that a
small portion of the roots are cut Off
and the operation may be performed
with a spade or in any way which is
best suited to individual needs.
Summer pruning takes the place
of the annual winter pruning, and is
the same in most respects except that
it is done in June instead of winter
or early spring.
Girding or ringing consists in re-
moving a ring or bark from the trunk
or larger limbs. This ring is some
times two inches or more in width;
all the bark within this space is re-
moved, thus exposing the wood. This
method of checking growth, though
often employed. is rather drastic,
and should he used with caution. A
more rational method is to ,girdle the
branch or trunk by cutting through
to the wood by making one contin-
uous cut and not removing any of the
bark.
Some authorities state that the
proper time to check the growth of
a tree in order to induce the forma-
tion of fruit buds is at the time when
the bark begins to set on the new
growth As this is rather a delicate
feature to determine the average per-
son Will make no mistake If he does
this work any time in the fore part
of June.
w. PADDOCK,
Horticulturlst, Colorado Experiment
Station. Fort Collins.
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16
MANY FaTAn DISEASES.

Show their first symptoms in the
eyes. That fact should establish
your confidence in the Importance of
having your eyes properly examined
on the first appearance Of discom-
fort.
HAVE THE INSTRUMENTS and
KNOWLEDGE necessary for making
the fullest scientific examinations,
and nothing is left undone that can
be done to find the cause of trouble.
CHAS. CASH, Oph. d.
Rooms 1 and 2 Margery Building.
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
J. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau.

June Is. p.m.-Temperatur
~; relative humidity. AZ; direction
of wind. east; velocity of wind,
miles; precipitation, IA inch; wealth
er, clear.
June 10. a.m.-Temperature
Sc; relative humidity, 20; direction
of wind, southeast; velocity of wind,
miles; precipitation, o; weather,
clear.
Maximum temperature yesterday.
So minimum, Sc; mean, 6S, or 4
below normal.
Forecast for Grand Junction and
vicinity Gssued at Denver) Gen
orally fair tonight and tomorrow
warmer tonight.
r. NJ. HARDINGE,
Official in Charge
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16

GlenWood Springs for service on
Strawberry day. Saturday, June
20, and many people are wonder
ing why.
1t is also learned that the Palisade
band has not been engaged for the
day.
AS result, in spite of the fact
that Glsnwood Springs depends upon
Grand Junction, Palisade and other
western slope towns-towns west of
Glenwood Springs-to furnish the
great majority of che visitors for the
Strawberry day festivities, no band
from this end of the line will be em-
ployed; but band from a city east
of Glenwood Springs city that
never furnished hair as many visi-
tors for Strawberry day as does this
city-has been engaged.
Each year hundreds of people go
from this valley to enjoy Strawberry
day, and Glenwood is only doing her
duty by recognizing this liberal pat
ronage by employing local band.
1t is certain that there is no kick
on the service given by the Grand
Junction band. There is no better
cording to report. another band can
be secured a little cheaper this year
and so the local band is left out. Not
even the splendidly equipped and
highly capable Palisade band is Civ
en- chance.
The fact that the Grand Junction
band will not accompany the excur-
sionists from this city as usual is
causing considerable comment local
ly and many have expressed disap-
proval.
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16

Pay rent to yourself. You can
get this nice 4-room house, water,
bath, cement walks, near depot, for
only $3.50 cash. Balance can be
paid out of rent money. You've been
wanting to stop renting from the
other fellow. Here's your chance.
Woods-King Realty Company, SAG
Main street.
The daily sentinel., 1908-06-16

Misses Bess DeLong and Ethel
Blackwell have issued invitations for
big party to be given on Friday
afternoon. One hundred guests will
be invited, and the affair promi~ 9
to be an exceedingly bright even. Of
the summer social calendar.