East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-12
Traction Movement Grows
Popular Hour by Hour
Money Flows In.
LEADERS HOPE TO
WIN LONG FIGHT
G. M. Rice Leads TOday's List With
Personal Subscription OF $100O-Doz-
ems OF Others Join Boosting Brigade
-Drumheller Says Withdrawals
Cannot Stand.

With close to $4,000 already sub
scribed to the traction fund and with
a host of people yet to be seen, the
prospects of successful finish for
the movement are now becoming
brighter every hour. That the long,
hard fight will be won is firmly be-
lieved by the leaders, though all real
lie that some hard work is yet ahead
OF the committee.
This being Saturday has been a
poor day for soliciting, yet despite
this fact some good work has been
done. Much of this has been in the
nature of CLOSING up" cases with peo-
pie who were seen yesterday. Mon
day the active work of raising the re-
mainder Of the money needed will be
taken up and pushed to completion as
rapidly as possible.
At the close Of the soliciting cam
paign last evening it was found that
the anticipated $4,000 mark had
been passed by considerable dis
tance. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
list stood at slightly over $4,000,
with a probability of adding several
Rice Subscribed $1,000.
The heaviest subscription made to-
day was that OF G.. NJ. Rice, cashier
of the First National bank. Mr.. Rice
subscribed $1,000 to the fund. the SUBJ
scrlption being personal. not in behalf
of his bank. This subscription brought
especial JOY TO the hearts of the COM
mitteemen.
Among others who have come to the
aid of the traction movement with
generous support since yesterday noon
are the following:
Schwartz & Greulich II. NJ. Sloan,
Cooper Bros. proprietors of the Ho-
tel Bowman, William Hanscom, the
jeweler; Royal NJ. Sawtelle, jeweler;
J. B. Despair and C. L. Bonney, both
Of the Wonder Store; the Owl Tea
House, by Mr.. Schnedecker; George
Peebler, Ben L. Burroughs, William
Kupers, Otto Hohbach, ]. II. Estes,
Beddow & Miller, the plumbers, ]. r.
Montgomery, ]. L. Sharon. August
Guderian, ]. S. Beckwith, F. ]. Dom
aldson, w. ]. Clark, who increased his
former subscription, and John Siebert,
the tailor.
The complete subscription list
showing the individual amounts sub
scribed, is to be published later.
About the Withdrawal.
Withdrawal of lands along the Wal
la Walla river by Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger affects the Washing
ton and Oregon Power company but
slightly and will not affect material
ly the plans Of the company, accord
ing to statement made yesterday
morning by Samuel Drumheller, pres
ident of the company. He says that
only a quarter of the power sites filed
on by the company is included in the
land withdrawn. He has been ad-
vised by counsel that the withdrawal
is not legal, and believes that 1t Will
be countermanded as soon as the facts
are known.
"Our company is in no way worried
over the withdrawal of lands made by
Secretary Ballinger January 90" says
Mr.. Drumheller. I'VE have not been
officially informed by the department
of the interior of the withdrawal. The
only information that we have receiv-
ed was that contained in the press
dispatches the latter part of January
According to that description of the
land withdrawn, two and one-half
miles that we have filed upon and be-
gun developing are included in the
land set aside by the order of Secre-
tary Ballinger.
"This withdrawal, If legal, and I am
advised that it is not, will not affect
the amount of power that we intend
to generate materially. The COM
pany will not be able to develop the
5000 horsepower that it intended to
originally, but it will be able to de-
velop all that will be needed by the
company for the next generation