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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
VOTERS MAY STUDY INITIATIVE LAWS

provides the time when laws take eff
feet, and the proposed amendment is,
therefore, wrongly numbered,)
The resolution passed by the house
and senate at the last session of the
legislative session reads as follows:
House Joint Resolution.
Be it resolved by the house. the
senate concurring: That the follow
ing amendment to the constituting
| constitution Of the state of oregon
is hereby proposed, and If ratified by
the electors of the state, such APPROX
al to amend section 2S, article 4, of
the constitution Of the state of oregon
by amending said section 2S, article
4, to read as follows:
Section 2S. The members of the
legislative assembly shall receive for
their services the sum of S400 for each
regular session, which shall be in full
of all compensation as per diem for
such session. When convened in ex-
ira session by the governor, they shall
receive ten (S1O) dollars per day, but
no extra SESSION. snail Contihue loT d
longer period than 20 days They shall
also receive their actual travelling ex-
penses. in going to and returning from
their place of meeting, on the most
usual route. The presiding officers of
the assembly shall, in virtue of their
office. receive an additional compen-
sation equal to two-fifths of their per
diem allowance as members.
Adopted by the house February l,
1907.
FRANK DAVEY,
Speaker of the House.
Concurred in by the senate. Febru-
ary 10. 1907.
z. w. aAINES.
President of the Senate.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
WILL BE CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT:
Forthcoming Message wiz Show
What Republican Party Has Ac-
cOmplished.

cOmplished.
The first step by the republican
party in the direction of presenting a
united front for the coming campaign
has been taken. Conferences are now
in progress between the president
and the republican leaders of con-
gress, says Washington dispatch.
What the president wants congress
TO do will be set forth in another
special message already prepared and
which will be used probably as a cam
paign document by the republicans.
Apparently the original purposes Of
the president in writing this message
was to force congress to adopt some
Of the measures which he had advo-
Gated in his sensational special mes
sige of January 81.
Mr.. Roosevelt believes that his jan
Uary 81 message was not effective be-
cause too long He has concluded,
therefore. to boil it down SO that a
busy man might be able to read 1t
at sitting.
The legislative program to show the
country that the republican party is
not a do-nothing, Is not likely to be
as comprehensive as Mr.. Roosevelt
wished. His desire to have the anti
trust laws amended may be fulfilled.
but If there is to be any effort on the
part of the president to redraft the
antitrust law entirely, Mr.. Roosevelt
will lose the support Of influential
senators and representatives.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
Hotel ST. George.

G.. i. Koechip, Walla Walla; F. L.
Finken, Walla Walla; j. W. Messner'
Baker City; p. Albenghu. New York;
L. s. Mastin. Elgin; ]. Bailey Fosters;
G. F. Ward Canyon City; p. Van
Data, Portland; S. Lee, Portland; j.
A. Allison. Portland; d. A. Liamie,
Seattle; B. Gordon, Portland; w.
Dunn, Portland; L. Rathburn, Port
land; G. L. Richardson, Portland; e.
3. Wood, Boston; G. Butterworth, st.
Paul; J. r. Fitzsimmons. Louisiana;
w. II. Parks, Hot Lake; ]. Reifel, Jas
per; r. c. Gettings and wife, Weston;
G. NJ. Runyan, Seattle; J. T. Lacey,
Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

The Oregon Sunday Journal is go
ing to publish from day to day, the
10 initiative measures now before the
people, that they may become famil-
lar with the matters upon which they
are to vote. The Journal says:
For the information of the voters
of the state all those measures which
are to come before the people at the
election in June by initiative, or refer
endum. or by reference to the refer
endum vote of the people by the last
session of the legislature, will be
printed in full by the Journal from
day to day until all the measures have
been reproduced.
In the cases of those measures for
which arguments have been submit
ted or against which objections will
be printed. together with the meas
ure to which they refer.
Altogether there are 19 of these
measures to be considered in June.
The measures are taken from
pamphlet sent out by the secretary OF
state containing all of the measures
and the arguments filed with the Sec
retary for and against them.
In the current issue the proposed
amendment to the constitution of the
state providing for change in the
emoluments of members of the legis-
Iature will be printed. This is a
measure submitted to the people by
the legislature. 1t provides that the
members of the legislature shall re-
ceive SO per day during all sessions
of the legislature instead of SO as at
present. The members are also to re-
ceiye their actual travelling expenses
incurred in going to and from the leg
islative sessions.
Passed Both Houses.
The measure was brought up in the
form of a house joint resolution at
the last session of the legislature and
passed boteh houses. 1t is now. in ac-
cordance with the law, being submit
ted to the people for their approval
or rejection.
The following is the form in which
the question will be printed on the Of
fioial ballot:
Referred to the people by the legls-
lative assembly: For an amendment
of section 2S evidently intended to
be section 29) of article " of the con-
stitution. changing the compensation
of members of the legislature to $500
for each regular session and $40 per
day for each extra session instead of
SO per day and mileage. (Section %
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

Walla Walla, March 24.-F'ive men
are under arrest, four in the Walla
Walla county Jail and one on his way
here from Burns, Ore, all being sus-
pected Of being members of gang of
horesthieves, operating in Washington
and oregon. The men in custody are:
Paul Kruger, %; j. A. Mcintyre, 80;
John Tycke, As; and his two sons,
John Tycke, jr, 10, and Richard
Tycke, 16.
The Tyckes and Kruger are in the
county Jail and Mcintyre is being
brought here from Burns, Ore, by
Deputy Sheriff Floyd Haviland.
The Tycke family was arrested at
Wallula Saturday afternoon, Deputy
Charles Painter going down in an au-
tomoble for them. They were brought
back early yesterday morning and
lodged in Jail.
Sheriff James Haviland and Deputy
Sheriff Charles Painter have been
quietly working on this case since
last October when the horses were
shipped from Wallula but it was not
until three weeks ago that the trail
began to get warm. Some additional
evidence, sufficient to warrant making
arrests, was secured. Warrants were
sworn out and the officers scattered
over the country.
Kruger was arrested at Burns, Ore.
and brought here by Deputy Painter.
Mcintyre was caught in Burns b..
Sheriff A. K. Richardson of Harvey
county, a couple of days later. Depu-
ty Floyd Haviland has gone after him
and is expected back about tomor-
row.
The officers believe that by the
arrest of this gang much of the horse
stealing that has been going on for
the last two years will stop.
An effort will be made to prove
that at least II horses were stolen
by this gang. The animals were ship
ped from Wallula last october in
three cars billed to Miles City. Mont,
and ST. Louis, No.
All of the men, it is claimed, show
ed no surprise when arrested, but
submitted very quietly.
Efforts will be made to SECURE bail
for them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

President Roosevelt has declared
his wishes for a special session of
congress in 1909 for revision of the
tariff. He also favors an amendment
to the antitrust law making conces-
sions to both labor and capital, the
limiting of power of courts to issue
injunctions, the passage of an en-
ployers' liability act and the passage
OF the Aldrich currency bill.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
Gold Yield Of Western Australia.

Consul-General John P. Bray re-
ports from Melbourne that the yield
of gold during 1907 OF western Aus
tralia, one of the largest gold-produc.
ing states of the commonwealth, was
1,697550 fine ounces, or a decrease
of S6,992 ounces compared with the
production of 1906, and of 257,766
ounces below that of 1905.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
TO VINDICATE BRoWNELL.
Oregon City Politician VIII be Dis
missed of Land Fraud Charge.

George C. BrOwnell, who for the
past threee years has been under the
cloud of an indictment for suborna-
ton of perjury, will be vindicated by
a dismissal of the Indictment tomor-
row morning, according to the infor-
nation that has come from Washing
ton, says the oregon Daily Journal.
Although District Attorney John
McCourt will not discuss the matter
and truth Of the rumor, 1t is known
that the department OF justice at
Washington has directed that the case
against Brownell be wiped off the
calendar. 1t is believed that this will
be done in the morning in the federal
court.
Brownell was indicted more than
three years ago by the federal grand
jury in regard to the signature of
Brownell appearing on certain field
notes taken by Surveyor-General
Henry Meldrum. Brownell's sigma
ture appeared to the field notes and
1t was thought at the time that he
had signed the notes. IL was after
ward found. by the confession Of
Meldrum himself that Meldrum sign
ed the name of Brownell without the
knowledge or consent of Brownell.
This fact became known to Fran
els j. Heney some time ago and the
matter of the dismissal of the Brown
ell indictment has been under consid-
Grafton by him since that time. Some
time ago a presentation of the case
was made to the department of JUS
tice and out of this the order for the
dismissal of the indictment has come.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

Senator Lamb of Ohio, has discov-
cred that guards in the state peni-
tentiary have been brutal to prison
ers and will see that an investigation
is commenced at once. One prisoner
was hung by his wrists for two days
as a means of punishment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
POLICE ROUND UP
ALLEGED THIEVES
FIVE MEN CHARGED
WITH STEALING II HORSES

Officers Believe They Have Organiz-
cd Gang Which Carried on Whole
sale Thievery In Washington and
OregOn-Three Carloads OF Horses
Shipped From Wallula by Gang
Last October-Men Show No Sur
prise at Arrests.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
Political Information.

4 Registration opens for pri- I
= maries, January 6.
= Closes for election, April 2. !
4 Primary election April IT. !
4 Registration reopens. April !
+ 21.
4 Close for election, May is. I
4 General election, June /. !
& Registration reopens, Sep !
+ tember 20.
+ Close for election, October I
Z 20. I
4 Presidential election, Novem- !
Z Der 3. :
: +++++++++%+++ + + ++++ = :
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

AIanZan Pile Remedy comes ready
to use in a collapsible tube, with
nozzle. One application soothes and
heals, reduces inflammation and re-
lieves soreness and itching. Price soc.
Sold by A. C. Koeppen & Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

Man Zan Pile Remedy price soc is
guaranteed. Put up ready for use. One
application prompt relief to any form
of piles. Soothes and heals. Sold by
A. c. Koeppen G. Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

Here comes the spring winds to
chap, tan and freckle. Use Pinesalve
Carbollzed. (Acts like a poultice) for
cuts, sores, burns, chapped skin. Sold
by A. C. Koeppen e. Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

OF kidneyd disease.
While kidneydis-
orders are the
most common
diseases that pre-
vail, they are
almost the last
recognized by
patient and ply
sicians, u10 con-
al
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
pih doctoring the effects, while the orig
inaE disease undermines the system.
What To Do.

Hih doctorfng the effects, while the orig
inaI disease undermines the system.
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulflls every wish in curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passage.
1t corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and oyerconies that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
the extraordinary effect of Swamp-RoOt
is soon realized 1t stands the highest
for its wonderful cures of the most dis
tressing cases. If you need medicine
you should have the best. Sold by drug
gists in hfty-ceat and one-dollar sizes.
You may have sample bottle and q
book that tells all E
about it, both se1tfree Ass:s.5ss
By mail. Address DR.. q fts.s.:ssss ss::ssssS
Kilmer & Co., Bing- issgeess.ls9 1ss.sEs.s29
hamton, N. Y. When Bone Of svanp-EoOt
writing mention this paper and don't
make any mistake, but remember TIE
name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-RoOt, and
the address, Binghamton, N. Y.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24
Thousands Have Kiiney
Trouble and Never Suspect IL

PreVaIency OF Kidney DIsease.
Most people do not realize the alarm
ing increase and remarkable prevalency
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-24

DOoK tnat ttIIS al
aboutit, both sentfree
BY mail. Address DR..
Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton, N. Y. When
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ADVERTISEMENT ard subscriptions FOR
Tho Tribune received at their Uptown
Office No. 1864 Broadway, between 36th
and 37th sts.. until o clock ?. m. Ad-
-e-riser1ents received at the following
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COT. 2Sd st. 152 9th ave, cor. 18th st; H2
East l4th ct: 25T West 42d st. between
IN and sth aves.. c63 West 125th st: 1893
3d ave. between 10Th and TIth sts-. 1923
30 ave. near 61st St: 11oS lst ave
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OLD GOLD AND SILVER

OLD GOLD. silver and precious stones
bought at highest market values; made
into new articles or exchanged for rev Jew
elry or Japanese goods at NJ T. Teppers
factory Al West 50th ST.
GOLD. silver. platinum. diamonds. rubies,
sapphires pearls, emeralds. pawn tickets;
valuables bought. John Daley. 653 9Th ave
WORKOUT gold ana silver bought by r
IonEmans Sons. gold and silver relners.
S John St
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ENRTa GERMAN Lloyd.

Fast f.Npress SerNlce-
fT.TMOT -TIs-CHERBO JRG-sEEMEN-.
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PERIODICALS AND LIBRARIES.

BACK. NUMBERS OF ALL MAGAZINES
may be procured at Gerard's Literary
shop. So Nassau st New York
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CARPET CLEANING.
CUTLERY AND HARDwARE.

CI-TIERY-Buy direct Of the nanufact-
urer and save all middlemens profits
Cutlery Of every description in large va
risry To select from Repairing done
Gustav Knauth. = and 7S Nassau st
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PRINTING.
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pRTNTTNG.

PRINTING.
Booklets circulars. Office stationery. mail
order work and fac-simile typewriter work
our specially over 10 years. send for rep
resent ative The Rich Press, IS East sd
81. Call 55s-Gramercy-
!. 600 BOND LETTERHEADs. $3.50; en-
veIopes, 81 Fac simile letters a spe-
cialty Other work low. Phenlx Press,
81 Reade 81. Phone S6e-Worth.
PRINTED bond letterheads. enevelopes our
specially. 5000 SC 30; samples sent.
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cor. 23d ST. lJ3 9th ave, cor 18th St. 81
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81 ave. between 10th and nth SITS; 1925
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goth 81: 1877 East 125th ST.. T56 fremont
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ITALIAN S. S. LINES
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MATER TIITERs.
TAILoRs,

SUITS 70 order from SO Up; perfect 1T as
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PATENTS

FRANK NJ ASHLEY. NJ. z,
Attorney and Expert IN Patent Causes.
Tribune Building. New Xork
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An Old Established Concern

which VIII bear the most exhaustive in
VeFtFation. ts offered FOR sale 70 settle an
s'a'e- an unusual o0Dortunitv presented
n acquire well established -,ar,,fr~.,,.t
plant selling its product IN wholesale olIar,
utles Made TWENTY-FIVE thousand 1ollars
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This - a staple business. ana "a r8.a or..
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UPHOLSTERY.

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Work. Furniture. Upholstery. city coun-
ery. IS West 35th 81. Tel 4e3s-8sth.
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PSI BROADWAY. y.
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PARTY. with $40 o0o. wanted. high class
manufacturing concern, city; annual
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lwERTckN WINE From Per Is, y r,

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ELFCTROTYPlN'& engraving. hslftones
and plates for al printing purposes
Smith 10 Nassau ST.. Room S:,S
IIAIFTo1E and line work; catalogues and
color woTh, cACeil'ri rcruiie. iow prices.
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PHOTO ENGRAVING

ELECTRoTYPING. all description; sdver
ffsiue elsciros ia quantities erceptioualf,
low rates Empire CITY Electrotype Co
251 william II.
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DETECTIVE AGENCIES
WATER FILTERS
PLATING
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

GEGMOR l1NE.
GLASGOW VIA LONDONDERRY
Fn'sis Ar 1s. . PM C-donis--AIay .. 10 Az
Eforrrs a -. d. . Pm Columbia Ma 2. noon
SALOON. s6e. 50. So 90 AND 81 20.
SECOND CABIN $3.50 AND S@5.
THIRD CLASS so 10 AND IS 5.
HENDERSON BROTHERS. I7-l9 3 wsy.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

This Christ Child has the great bird
like wings, and his golden locks are
surmounted by q golden cap Of the
kind placed by artists on fgures SYM
bolical Of liberty.
The dignitaries of the church see no
improperly in this union Of the relig-
ious and the secular. In fact, they en-
courage 1t in the belief that it brings
homo the lessons Of the holiday more
impressively. more personally to the
simple minded, gentle children In their
care.
In most OF the countries church and
state are one anyway. and there is
nothing unusual In the blending of the
religious and the secular.
Moreover, into the custom is woven
this beautiful idea. sometimes over
looked In the new world celebration Of
the day. that Santa Claus-in fact,
every dispenser OF benenoenos-is but
tho servant Of the 0reat Oliver, from
whom comes direct all that Is hest thet
mankind knows.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
The Difficulties of Color Photography

\ DVERTISEMENTS of the new French
N "autochrome" Photographic plates
are evidence, in the minds OF the gen.
eral public, that color photography has
now been placed within every ones
reach. Whether or not this is true de-
pends, OF course, somewhat on defini-
ton, but to the scientific man color
photography means the production Of
color In the picture by direct action Of
the color of the object. just as the
lights and shades In an ordinary photo
graph result directly from those OF
nature.
In only one process, that OF Lpp-
mann, Is this accomplished: in all others
there IL an intervening process
(sometimes severaD which is dependent
on some outside condition and which
determines the color. Such processes
produce. not color photographs, but au-
tomatically colored photographs In
the autochroms plates the emulsion is
strswn with artinciaIly colored starch
grains, on whose tints, as modified or
obscured by the Photographic process
the colors OF the resulting picture de-
pend The arbitrary factor. it is true.
is reduced to minimum. but is there.
Another process. now many years old.
but almost as legitimately entitled to be
called color photography as the fore
going is the now familiar three color
process of making color prints, which
has been brought to special perfection
during the last year or two. Here two
arbitrary processes intervene between
the color of the object and that of the
picture. The three half tone plates
from which the three superposed pic
lures are printed in three different
colors are made by photographing the
object through three different color
screens. Here the selection OF the
screens and the choice of the colored
inks for the printing are the two pro-
cesses on which the color of the result
depends. Processes of this kind though
we may refuse TO bestow on them the
name of color photography. may give
results that are wonderfully true to
those of the object The latter to the
three color" process. is generally a
painting, though good results have been
obtained directly from nature. espe-
cially when the object is simple So
popular has the process become that the
color printers sometimes take a series
OF pictures to a publisher and ask him
to bring them out in book form, agree
ing to furnish the text later Al . pos