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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
CITY OWNERSHIP.

At Eugene they are now having a
warm municipal campaign and NUM-
cipal ownership is the slogan of those
behind one ticket. But to defeat this
ticket the corporation that owns the
water works IS fighting hard. 1t is
now charged against them that they
are using money to enlist the support
of student votes for their side.
But if the contention at Eugene is
as to whether the water system shall
be under the control Of the city or
left in private hands there should be
but one answer. Municipal owner
ship of water systems is so far ahead
of private ownership that in this day
and age one seldom finds a city or
even a small town that does not own
its plant
For the same reason that it is well
for municipalities to own water sys-
TENS it is well for them to control
other utilities. such as electric light
ing systems. Where 1t is possible for
a city to own and operate its own
electric system it is certainly profit
able to do so. This has been shown
up at Milton, where the town has
owned It's electric plant ror years. The
little town has all the lights it wants
for street lighting purposes, its rates
TO consumers are reasonable and the
city itself is free from debt largely
because it has long owned its own
water works and its own lighting
system.
There is no reason why municipal
dues cannot operate water systems and
electric plants as satisfactorily as can
private corporations. Wherever such
things are tried they usually bring
about lower rates to consumers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

erly go to an eastern oregon lawyer.
OF course many people will scout
the idea that such a man as Mr., Car
ter will be given the judgeship, But
IL sometimes occurs that a good
president will look beyond the ring of
active aspirants and select man
from afar This happened when John
McCourt was made United States dis
trict attorney. Possibly it will occur
again.
II President Taft desires to select
a judge from among men who are
not avowed candidates for the posi-
ton, but prefers a republican, the
East Oregonian would like to refer
him to Judge James A. Fee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
AN INHUNIAN CRIME.

There are many people who would
like to see the death penalty inflict-
ed upon those who are found guilty
IL kidnapping. To those who steal
children for the deliberate purpose of
exacting ransom or for purposes of
revenge such punishment would no
more than fit the crime
Without a soul or a heart must be
a man or a woman who steals a child
from its parents. The crime is one
that in some respects IS worse than
murder. In murder cases there is no
doubt as to what has happened to the
victim. But when a child is kidnap-
ped its parents are in a frenzy of fear
and anxiety. They are tortured by
the thought that their offspring may
be alive, but is being mistreated and
in their minds the little one may die
thousand deaths.
The man who will steal a child has
the soul Of wolf and when caught
and convicted he should be treated as
an animal, not as human being.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
A LAWYER NEEDED.

President Taft could go far and
find no better man for the new Ore
gon judgeship than Charles H. Car
ter. As a lawyer Mr.. Carter has a
reputation that places him high
among the members Of the eastern
oregon bar. Then his personal rec
ord is such that it cannot be ques-
toned. Politically he is Of democrat
ic faith, yet he has shown such inde-
pendence of party lines that his ap-
pointment at the hands Of repub-
ncan president would be entirely con-
sistent
AS TO who will be given the federal
judgesh!p the East oregonian has not
the slightest idea. But II President
Taft is really looking for an honest,
capable lawyer for the job, this pa
per hopes he will find such a man.
OF such men there are several in this
city, Mr.. Carter being one Of them.
Since the new judgeship was created
In order to handle eastern Oregon
business the appointment should prop
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
SPRING GoBLINs.

The butterfly'll catch you II you
don't watch out.
The linnet and the robin and the
whole fine trout;
The bumblebee'll bite you, and first
thing you know
The dainty, sanity snowdrop will
peep through the snow!
All kinds of mysteries moving I'm the
air,
Shadows of a golden girl on a gloomy
star.
More of Lady April, with her smile
and her rain,
Hiding where the wind blows down
the lilac lane!
My lady'll catch you as you walk
through the dell;
Funny kind of folks about-you
never can tell
Just when a dandelion's going to
make a spring.
Right across the meadow where the
bluebirds sing!
Violets' see you when you come al
ong the way;
Everything is ready just TO start in
and play.
Buds'll soon be bursting, and I'm
sure as I can be
A daffodil is nodding in the garden
bed to me!
Baltimore Sun.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
FOR ARTS SAKE.

Mr.. Boughton, the English artist,
while sketching in the Alps, was one
day in search of a suitable back
ground of dark pines for picture he
had planned. He found at last the
precise situation he was seking. and
best of all. there happened to be a
pretty detail in the figure of an old
woman in the foreground.
81 asked the old lady" said Mr..
Boughton. 'to remain seated until I
had made a sketch Of her. She as
sented, but in a few minutes asked me
how long I should be. only a quar-
ter of an hour" l answered, reassur-
ingly.
Three minutes or so later, she
again asked me-this time with man
ifest anxiety l should be much
longer.
40, not long I answered. But
why do you ask so anxiously?'
"'Oh, it's nothing, she answered,
only I'm sitting on an ant HILL"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

Love is the only weapon in tine
world that we can fight the world
with and win.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
FIGHTING DEPRAVITY.
(RY James W. Folk.l

ibY JdIHtS w. IOlhsJ
One Of the obstacles to the progress
of Righteousness everywhere Is the
mistaken view that 1t Injuries a city
or state to prosecute wrongdoing. l
have heard men deplore the exposure
Of public corruption because it hurts
a city; l have heard men oppose the
enforcement Of law against gambling
and liquor lawlessness because 1t in
lures the state; have heard men OBJ
ject to prosecuting trusts and monop-
olies in order to make them obey the
law because it hurts business. Such
views are entirely false. No city can
be injured by the enforcement Of the
peoples laws. To do otherwise Is to
substitute the will of the official for
the laws Of the people, and that is
tyranny. No state can be hurt by ex-
posing grating; to do otherwise Is to
connive at It. There is no secret rem
edy known for evils Of this character.
They cannot be cured by hiding them.
The disgrace is not in their correc-
tion, but in submission to them with
supine Indifference. II is well for
state to display its virtues and not
to parade its faults; but It should not
be forgotten that the highest civic
virtue is the overthrow Of depravity.
Grafters, whether in st. Louis, Phil
adelphia, Chicago, San Francisco or
Plttsburg, always endeavor to have
1t appear that right against them is
SANDER against the city in which
they operate.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
\ LOVERS ENVY.

| envy every flower that blows
Beside the pathway where she goes
And every bird that sings to her,
And every breeze that brings 10
her
The fragrance of the rose.
I envy every poets rhyme
That moves her heart at eventime,
And every tree that wears for her
Its brightest bloom, and bears for
her
The fruitage of its prime.
envy every Southern night
That paves her path with moon
beams white
And silver all the leaves for her,
And in their shadow weave for
her
A dream of de2rer delight.
envy none whose love requires
OF her a gift, a task that tires;
I only long to live to her.
I only ask to give to hei
All that her heart desires.
Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
Music Makes
Life SWeeter

Pianos, organs, vioIins, Banjos.
Guitars, Talking Machines and Sheet
music at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

At the mass meeting and banquet
to be given here Friday evening every
business man and especially realty
men from the new sections of this
county should be in attendance. 1t
is for their benefit largely that the
meeting is to be held.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

While in Africa Roosevelt should
call upon Fuzzy Wuzzy at his home
in the Soudan. According to Mr.. Kip
ling Fuzzy is a poor benighted heath
ed, but a first class fighting man. He
is entitled to a call
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23
ROOSEVELT LIKE.

Today the strenuous Theodore
leaves the coast of America for the
wilds Of Africa where he will bury
himself in the jungle In the fast
nesses of the Dark Continent he would
forget the affairs of government and
allow his successor to direct the ship
of state unaided by the former pilot.
This trip into Africa is very much
like Roosevelt. He is of the strenuous
type and also very spectacular. Yet
a man may be so constituted and still
be a man of very good judgment. In
fact this wild hunting trip shows deep
sagacity on the part of the ex-presi-
dent, 1t gives him something worth
while TO do; it will keep popular in
terest in him awake and at the same
time he will be leaving the present
administration alone.
In the past everything that Theo-
dore Roosevelt has undertaken has
but added to his popularity. 1t is
possible he now hopes to reach the
same acme of fame by taking a wild
hunting jaunt into Africa. Further
more, it is entirely possible he will
succeed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

1t Is very fitting that the Spanish
war veterans should take the lead in
securing a gun from the battleship
Oregon for Pendleton. The Oregon
lc a Spanish war veteran Of some dis
tinction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

Dealer-Shall l send you up ton
OF coal7
Puchaser-No; you needn't go to all
Of that bother. Just wrap II up and
will carry It home in my vest pocket.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-03-23

, The man who wins is the man Z
who wears Z
A smile TO cover his burden Of Z
cares; {
, Who knows that the sun will Q
shine again. =
That the clouds will pass and We
need the rain;
Who buckles down to a pile of .
work, q
And never gives up and never .
will shirk
Till the task IS done and the toll .
made sweet, .
While the temples throb with .
the red blood's heat. .
Selected. 9
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
Notice OF Sale.

BY virute OF an order OF sale TO
me directed and delivered, issued
out OF the District Court OF Carter
County. Oklahoma, in an action OF
said court wherein J. T. Gillian is
plaintiff and Robert Johnson and
Fay Johnson are defendants, will
on the 31st day OF July. 1909. be-
tween the hours OF 9 o'clock a.
m. and o'clock p. m. at the front
door of the court house in the
County aforesaid. offer at public sale
and sell to the highest and
best bidder for cash in hand,
the following described prop
erty, to-wit: Lot No. Il, in
Block No. 3S9, OF the City OF Ard.
more. Oklahoma. according TO the
official survey and plat thereof.
II. AKBRS,
Sheriff Garter County. Oklahoma
By F. X. WEST. Deputy.
30-7.14.21
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
TEACH THEM ABOUT COTTON
TECHNICAL TRAINING FREE OF
CHARGE AT A. q NJ. COLLEGE
AT SALTWATER.

saltwater Okla, July 1O.-Thc
new cotton grading for farmers
and buyers and the special infor.
nation obtained in technical train
ing pays. The cotton growers real
izc this and the cotton buyers have
known it for a number OF years.
but only recently have special cot.
ton schools been organized
The Agricultural n Mechanical
College at saltwater held the first
Of these schools IN Oklahoma last
year and IL was n success.
The college management will open
another cotton grading school on
July 18th. Farmers and cotton buy
ers. who are interested. may gain
most valuable information by at.
tending the work given under the
supervision OF Mr.. r. \. Robinson.
During the midsummer. the col
lego authorities have cots construct
ed, which are 90 be used free OF cost
by those who wish and some Of the
large college buildings will be oc.
cupicd as sleeping quarters.
The most noted cotton experts Of
the south and some Of the govern
mcnt specialists assist in the course.
The work will begin Monday, July
18th. \ second class will begin
the work July Goth and close August
eth.
Students interested may enter
at any time during the course. All
instruction is free. President J. IT,.
Connell at Saltwater will send val.
liable information on request.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12

To be held July l6 and II. two days
Plenty of bread. barbecue and ice
water for the public Every kind OF
amusement imaginable. Tournament
races. broncho riding, potato races,
Fat mems races. Boys climb creased
pole. Ball game each day, with hes,
teams in the state matched $40 prize
for the best team. Speaking by best
speakers in the state. Shooting by
Hewitt and Ardmore gun clubs. Long
distance telephone on the grounds.
Come and bring well filled baskets,
Wen amuse you. A. Ward, w. r.
Pipes and +. C. DeBerry, committee
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
How q ThIs7

We offer one Hundred Dollars Re.
ward for any case OF Catarrh that
can not be cured by Halls Catarrb
Cure.
+. J. CHENEY & CO Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known
+. j. Cheney for the last IS years
and believe him perfectly honorable
In all business transactions and fin.
ancially able to carry out any obi.
cations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
nally acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
! testimonials sent free. Price ~ cents
per bottle Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con.
stipation. d&w
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
Cotton Lice Reported.

Guthrie, Ok. July 10.-The State
Board OF Agriculture has reports OF
cotton lice in certain localities, but
does not think much damage has
been done. Insects are infesting
melon patches. and the board rec
omnends that they be sprayed with
a solution of kerosene and soap, one
part TO nine parts water.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
Fair Proposition.

Rainbow.chasers get at least a rn,
for their money.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-12
PAY SiCIANS.
G. n. MCKINNEY. N. D. v.
Veterinary Surgeon.

Treats All Domestic Animals.
Graduate of the McKillip Veterrnaiy
College of Chicago, ILL.,. a College rec.
ognized by every state in the union
and the Dominion OF Canada.
Hospital and Office 100 y. Washing
ton. Phone No. ..
First door south Sammons Lumber
Co.
Rcslunnce 5li w. Main 81. Phon.
$50.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
moTHERs-1N-IAw CAN'T BOSS.

They Must Go ~ Able Bodied and
wives Insist Upon IL.
If you are wife, an able-bodied
mother-in-law hangs around the house
telling you what you must and must not
do, you have the right to order her
from the house, and II your husband
sides with him mother and you leave
him. you can make him provide separate
maintenance. 1t is up to the mother-in.
law to earn her own living.
This was the substance OF decision
handed down by Vice Chancellor Ste
venson, in Jersey City, In tine suit OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Keery against her hus-
band, John Keery, a farmer, for sepa'
rate maintenance, according to the New
York World.
Keery married trained nurse a lit
tie over a year ago, and took ser to his
farm, where his mother, according tC
his bride. wanted to boss things, and or
dered her daughter-in-law to feed hog'
and do other farm work. The bride re
belled, and when her husband refuset
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
(s,HIHIlyIplREsS
GaBdFIIER19
Popping Corn.

A wintry wind was tossing things about,
As night fell darkly round a cottage
home:
But while discomfort reyeled thus with
out,
Within was found loving, cheerful
home.
A blazing fire, a bright, weil-lighted room,
Tea-kettle singing. and a purring cat.
Father to baby humming an old tune.
And mother busy fixing this and that.
Three children round the floor skipped
playfully-
A boy and two sweet girls-rom. Belle
and May;
Tired at last. they asked, quite anxiously,
Can we pop corn this evening? Mo
ther, say !"
The welcome Yes" gave to each heart
content,
And busy hands the pepper brought tc
light;
Then DER the fire six eager eyes were
bent,
Watching the sea gray kernels turn tc
white.
Pop popl "There, one is done ~ criet
May, Pop, popl
Look. Belief another jumps up in thu
air!
How white they get o. see that kerne
hop!
The whole are dancing, Tom, l do de
clare ~
Quick, shake the pepper! Shake, o
they will burn y
II wish that we could pop corn ever.
night !"
"What jolly fun to see them quickly turl
From homely things to pretty balls o
whiter'
And SO they chatted giggled, dance
around,
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
m e-rn the barest Idea Of poetical en-.

In even the barest Idea Of poetical en-.
preston. They are like people who
look at all beautiful things with eyes
that seek only for what use may be
made OF them. II is said that young
professor OF mathematics In one OF
our universities once boasted TO a
friend that he neither knew nor cared
to know anything about poetry, for II
was "all lot Of impractical rot" His
friend thought he might feel different
ly II he read some stirring poem by
one of the great writer's. and gave him
Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brig
ade" as a test. The mathematician
took up the volume and read thus:
Half league. half a league. half q
league onward.
Then he banged the book down oil
the table. snorting. "Bah. If the maj
meant league and half, why didn'
he say sol"
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
Everybody Lucky.

An old farmer of the County of Dur
ham called at roadside public house
where he was well known. The land
lady asked him to buy ticket for a
lottery they had on there.
"Well," he said, Il hae naught In ma
pocket, or l might"
"Oh, that's a rect, john" she says;
take the ticket and pay for it any
time"
Some time later John called again
and the landlady asked him If he knew
who had won the lottery.
mo" he said "who won?"
'Well, hardly burst tell you, but oor
Sam won. Wasn't he lucky?"
"Aye," said John, "he was lucky.
And who was second, then?"
81 burst hardly tell you. Who would
YOU think now?" she said.
II couldn't say" said John.
"Well, it was oor Sally. Wasn't she
lucky?'
save, she was lucky" said John
"and who was third?" he asked.
"Well," she said, you would never
guess, and l might as well tell. ! was
third. Wasn't lucky?"
"You were" he said. did ever
nav you for that ticket, missus?"
.sNo, John, you didn't" she said
fawnilig upon him.
| .Weli," said John, isn't l lucky?"
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01

which is doing the most effective work
to preserve that marvellous peak from
the threatened invasion of mountain
railway, with its insidious tunnels and
chimneys, intended to make a road for
tourists to a summit which has hither-
to been red ribbon for mountalneers.
Nearly 10000 signatures have been OBJ
tanned to petition against the desc
Grafton of the Matterhorn. Modern en-
cheering could, of course, make the
railway; but in the end would it pay
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01

to send his mother away left him. The
Vice Chancellor. in his decision. said:
Each question of what constitutes a
home must be considered on its merits.
There is no fixed rule. If wealthy
man and his wife separate until such
time as he provides a suitable home for
her, he may not offer her shack In
the meadows, which might be all that
poor man could provides Ii man In
stalls his mother In his home when his
mother is able to provide for herself
elsewhere, 1t is not such home as the
wife must accept, and in the eyes OF
the law such conduct is abandonment
of the wife.
If mans mother Is INDECENT and
his income is not sufficient to provide a
home for her elsewhere, 1t is his legal
and moral duty to take her into his
home. Under such circumstances he
would be compelled to ask his wife to
make the best of the situation.
I'm this case, however, the mother-in
| law Is vigorous woman. able to Obtain
employment and take care Of herself
Under the circumstances am bound t.
hold that the husband has failed Il
provide suitable home for his Wife
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
The Dijon Popular.

A private letter from a traveller In
France speaks Of poplar tree that
the writer saw in the city of Dijon,
which is the oldest tree of its kind In
France. 1t is 122 feet in height, and
is 45 feet in circumference at the base.
The city council has an authentic rec
ord of the history Of the tree, since the
year I'D. The people Of Dijon are
proud of it, so much so that they not
long ago voted to levy tax to put a
railing around 1t, SO that it might be
protected from possible injury. 1t Is
good to see sentiment of this kind.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-01
|klMs, Science
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The nations annual consumption of
paper would make roll $50 feet high
by 357 in diameter, weighing about p
100000 tons and costing $36,200,000.
Ferro-silicon and other alloys of the
latter metal have remarkable resisting
powers, nitro, hydrochloric and other
powerful acids having no effect upon
them.
To perfect the process of the Oxford
paper used for Bibles required twenty
years of steady work. The syndicate
owning the formula values it at over
$1OOO,000.
A siX-weeks-old baby at Jersey City,
n. j., whose legs have turned to stone,
is said to be only the eighth case of
infantile ossification in the history of
medical science.
The fullers earth industry in Great
Britain is practically controlled by a
combine, which entrusts the secret of
Its final preparation to less than halt
dozen persons.
A Connecticut inventor has patented
spigot which he says prevents splash
ing in sink by directing the flow sc
that 1t strikes at an obtuse instead OF
vertical angle.
A British consular report shows thai
Madagascar produced 73,097 ounces Of
gold in 1905, 64,344 in 1906, and 72,10(
in 1907, practically all from alluvia
or placer workings.
The immense hydro-electric plant oi
the Canadian-American Company
which has light and power monopol,
at Rio Janeiro was recently completed
and put into service.
Sweden's royal forestry commission
last year supplied forest products
worth $13,250,000, yet accumulatet
timber resources equal to twice tn
amount of timber felled.
A bronze tablet in memory Of Andr
Marie Ampere, founder of the scienc
of electric dynamics, has been erecte'
in the railroad station of the Eey
Jersey town bearing his name.
Experiments are under way at Cal
cutta with a gasoline automobile, driy
en- by an air propeller. A speed 0
15 miles an hour has been made wit
marked absence of wear on the tires
Herr Schaer of the Geneva, Swift
erland, Observatory reports the disco,
cry, in October, of new dusky rim
surrounding the outer border Of th
bright rings of Saturn. Other obser,
ers have since failed to see the a
legged new ring, which its discoyere
says appeared in the form Of two nal
row brownish bands projected agains
the planet, and visible beyond II
edge. He thinks it is similar to th
interior Grape ring, which borders th
bright rings on their inner edge
1t was an Englishman, Mr.. Whyn
per, who conquered the heart-qualSin
Matterhorn when all the world b.
lieved Its top to be inaccessible No
1t is the English branch Of the Leagu
sor the Preservation of Swiss Scener