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Claims of Oil Loca.
 tors Rejected.

Gallup. N M, Sept. 1S.-J. G. Kent, the Indian allotting agent, who was assigned the work of allotting the extension of the Navajo Indian reservation just to the north of Gallup. was in the Carbon city last week, hay. ing finished the work committed to him by the government. This extension includes some very valuable lands, including some thing like two townships where the Placer, or Little Toga, oil fields are locat ted. A recent deci- sion of the land office at Wash ington has been received relative to the oil fields and the claims of the locaters have been rejected thus giving this land to the h. dian reservation. Since the work of allotting has been completed 1t is quite likely that the reserva- tion will be thrown open tor settlement. While this is not authentic information it is quite probable that this will be the next step in the matter. accord ing to the Gallup Republican.
 George Keepers. formerly of Arizona, is at Thoreau making similar allottments, and will soon have his work completed The allotting of the lands will naturally settle the Indian mat ters i'll regard to the reservation and the land which has not been allotted will be thrown open to settlement sooner or later.
 There Is some excellent land in the Navajo reservation aside from that allotted to the Indians.
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The Order of Owls.

Which is having such pheno menal growth throughout the country, established in 1904, at South Bend, Ind, believes in fun, laughter, and the kingdom of heaven on earth, also has a very simple plan. Death benefit fund, on the event of death of Q mem- Der, each member is assessed one cent (1c) winch is paid to the beneficiary not exceeding $1 ,OOO, the surplus is used to reduce as- sessments. There are four lodges in the territory, Winslow, Bisbee, Douglas, and two weeks ago a lodge was instituted in Globe with 3O5 members. A lodge will be instituted in this city by A. S. Barrett and Robert Won Osten, organizers for Arizona.-Phoenix Republican.
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Noiseless Cannon.

The success achieved with de- vices to silence the reports of small arms have encouraged in- ventors to try to apply the same principal to large guns used in the army and navy. 1t is re- ported that considerable success has been had in this direction. Without doubt the time will come when the guns of the army and navy in action will be not only smokeless but also noiseless. AS the guns are cons tantly becoming more powerful, the elimination of the deafening roar will be an advantage not only in saving the gunnres from the danger of becoming deaffrom the great reverberations, but in preventing the enemy from as- certainimg so readily the location of the artillery which may be at tacking him.
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Captured After
 Long Chase.

Adamana. Ariz.. Sept. 22.- Sheriff Thompson of Globe, at 9 o'clock tonight arrested James Steele and William Stewart, for mer United States soldiers, who are charged with the murder of Fred Kibbe and Albert F. Hill pot, business men of Globe Sher- if Thompson and a posse of five men found the fugitives at the Santa Fe station here. No fight was put up by either of the men This ends a nine days chase, which was participated in by peace officers, Indian trailers and bloodhounds. Kibbe and Hill. pot, who were on a hunting trip were slain in a deserted stage station between Fort Apache and Globe. Robbery was evi dently the motive of the deed.
 Dr. O. o. Morrison who spent the last of the week in Holbrook left Sunday morning for Wins
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Mother of Mormon
 Church Dead.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 20. In the death of Mrs. Bethsheba Wilson Smith. who sucumbed to day to the effects of a stroke of paralysis suffered several months ago, the Mormon church loses the president of the general board of its relief society, whose jurisdiction extends throughout the world, and a women whose name IS linked with every not able event of the church recorded since the Nauvoo days. Mrs Smith was one of the eighteen women who attended at the or. ganization of the relief society al Nauvooin March, 1S42, when the prophet, Joseph Smith was presi- dent, was one of the directors oi the Deseret hospital and presided for ten years over the reliefsocie ty in all the world. When the women of Utah were making the campaign for sufferage, Mrs Smith took an active part. She was married in 1S41 to George A. Smith, first cousin to the pro phet. Mrs. Smith was SS year: old.
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THE PASSING OF THE CATTLE BARONS
 OF CALIFORNIA.

The loss of cattle and horses during the famine years was one of the greatest clamities that ever visited California. The as- sessed value of property in Los Angeles county Ill 1860 was S3 65O, ,33O; in 1864, S1, ,622,37O. Over two million dollars ofprop- erty was swept out ofexistance, percentage of loss greater than that of San Francisco by the earthquake and fire in 1906. O.l the cattle there was no insurance or salvage-the loss was total.
 The great draught began in 1868 and lasted two years. In the winter of 1S62-63 the rain fall was less than four inches and in 1S63-64 it was little more than a trace. By the fall of 1863 the vegetation had been licked up from the sun-baked plains by the hungry herds, and cattle were dying of starvation.
 As the time for the rainy seq son approached the rancherns anxously scanned the heavens for signs and portents of coming storms, but none appeared. The heavens were as brass and the former and latter rains cane not. The winter passed and the hot, dry summer was upon them, Cattle were dying by the hun dreds every day. Herds of gauut skeleton-like forms, moved slow ly over the plains in search of food. Here and there, singly or in small groups, poor brutes, too weak to move on, stood mo- tionless with dropping heads rlowly dying of hunger.
 In the long stretch of arid plain between Los Angeles and San Diego there was one oasis of luxuriant green. It was the vineyards of the Anaheim colo nists, kept green by irrigation. The two square miles of coloney grounds were surrounded bv q close set willow hedge, and the streets were closed by gates. The starving cattle, frenzied by the sigh of something green, would gather around the enclosure and make desperate attempts to break through. A mounted guard armed, patrolled the out side of the barricade, day and night, to protect the vineyards from incursion by the starving herds. There was no relief for the wretched condition. There was no means of shipping the starving cattle out of the coun- try and no feed to ship in. The small amount of feed raised by irrigation was scarce sufficient to keep few domestic anim ,ls alive Hay sold for $15O a ton and feed barley for $1OO.-Paci fic Monthly.
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Welded.

At the residence of Mrs. l. Downs, at eleven o'clock Thurs day morning, September p, Miss Mable Galbraith of Gallup, N. M, was united in marriage to Mir. Geo o. Downs, Rev. Father Connolly officiating. The bride was attended by Miss Rose Downs, while Charles Downs as sisted his brother.
 During the ceremony Miss Martha Downs rendered, very effectively. Mendelsohn's We'd ding March.
 The bride was attlred in a gown of white messeline satin, with a yoke of Irish poin1 lace. She carried a boquet of brides roses.
 The bridesmaid wore a very pretty white lingerie dress and carried carnations.
 The bridegroom and his atten- dant were attired in the conven- tional black.
 Mrs. j. Downs, mother of the bridegroom, wore a gray satin dress with venetian trimming
 Mrs. Galbralth, mother of the bride, who had made the trip here from Kansas City in order to attend the wedding ceremony, was attired III a very pretty white lace dress.
 Miss Martha Downs wore plain white. while Miss Jennie Downs, who is here from Albuquerque for the occasion. had very pretty yellow satin gown with persian trimming, the gown be- ing or the latest hobble style.
 Following the wedding cere-. mony a four course dinner was served at which the followin g guests were seated:
 Father Connolly, Arthur C. Smith, A. D. Markham, Mrs. l.. F. Briscoe, Mrs. Eastman, to- gether with the bridal party and he members of both families.
 The principal color scheme in the decorations was purple and white, the colors of the Elks or ganizatIon of which MT. Downs is member, green ferns and other foliage making a very pretty background. the whole producing very pretty effect.
 A reception for the friends of the family was held during the afternoon and evening and the newly welded couple received the hearty congratulations of their many WinsIow friends During the course of the reception cake and punch was served and each lady attending was presented with a boquet of carnations and a piece of the wedding cake as a souvenir of the occasion.
 The wedding presents were nu- merous, costly and very elegant, their number and quality being the occasion of many favorable remarks from those present, it all going to show the popularity F of Dude" and his bride.
 Benjamin Downs was on the
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Fairbanks on Advertising.

Speaking of advertising ex-Vce President Fairbanks said recently:
 Does advertising pay? has been the theme of nu- and labored utterances and there doubt and obscure of the country where 1t is still vital living question, but rule 1t has become academic, aud many of the witness n the market place have been acheved by the fullest recogn ton in practise of the affirmative of the proposition The best advertiser and the best merchant syn onymous, and the poorest advertiser is usually the who finds himself in of bankruptcy. Of course all advertisers do succeed but think will be gen orally admitted that there fewer failures among them than among those who do not possess the faculty of bringing their business fairly and favoraby before the public"
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firing line all afternoon assisting his mother and sisters in taking care of their numerous guests and as Ben IS not a novice in the of receptions it may be added that he did honor to the occasion as well as to himself. One of Dudes" congratula- tory telegrarns came from the train-erew he had been working with and is as follows. "Ca2oose 549, Manuelito. N. M.
 Sept, %, 1910. Mir. and Mrs. G. O. Downs,
 Winslow, Arizon.
 Congratulations from crew Married life has many ups and downs-may yours be mostly ups with a sprinkllng If Little Downs.
 tSigned) The Whole Crew."
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ARIZONA WOOL GROWERS MEET.

There was a good attendence at the Wool Grnwers' meeting here. Tuesday. Forest Supervisor Hinderer and Joe Campbell, of Prescott. were present, and allOt- ments were assigned on the Verde d.vi>i. n nf the Prescott forest Other matters were talked over and adjusted as nearly satisfac- to y as possible. Several sheep men were present from a dis tance.-Flagstaff Sun.
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Local Happening

Saturday with part ot the party, while the Sheriff and the prison CTS took the train, going by the way of Globe.
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Ben Schuster accompanied by his two sons, of St. Johns, spent couple of days in town before leaving for California where the boys will enter the Harvard Milf tary School.
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An elderly Mexican tramping his way east was found by the section men of this place between he-e and Penzance last M Monday. They brought him as far as the Holbrook section house where he fingered around till in the afternoon when he passed quiet ly away to the unknown. His body was found shortly after he died. The coroner was summon ed and pronounced the cause of his death starvation. The re mains were placed in the Hol brook cemetry.
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Capture of Steele
 and Stweart.

the-ir one weeks chase Ofover one hu d ed apd fiji y miles acr' ss cuuntiy aft>r lwn murueI CTS, the climax of which was reached at AdInana on lust Thursday nigh ~ hen tn fugitives w, re captured
 At about nine o'clock in the evr.in ing If the 18th instant s wat and Ste,l le, two ex- suluIris who had ioY merly beeD stationed at Fort Apache, but who were then in charge of hog ranch belonging 10 man named Futile, mudered in cold blood two young citizens of Globe, who were then hunting in the White Mountains. Rob- berv was undo ubtedly the motive although the prisonc rs claim self defense, but their fight seems to give lie to that plea. Word reach ell Globe, and just twenty four hours later the Sheritt's posse reached the scene of the crime in an automobile and then the real chasr began in earnest Where ever h, rSes could he procured the posse searched the country with the h,lp of Indian trailers, while the machine went ahead The murslerers were compelled to aisandfsH their horses after riding them down, leaving them near CoOley's ranch, and then struck across country on foot. having been seen at Showlow, Shumway, and Snow flake, where they went in quest of food. They then started for the railroad reaching Adamana at nine o'clock last Thursday night when they were surprised by Sheriff Thompson of Gila county who was at that time at the railroad station The fugitives had seen the automobile at various points and knew they were being bounded They had seen the ma chine go to Adamana that day and return to Holbrook, so sup posed that no officers were there, and intended procuring food as they had been without 1t for two days They were so taken by surprise that they did not have time to think of fighting During the last few days of the chase the posse were almost sure they were on the right trail and were certain that capture would come at the time 1t did.
 l h1S was one Ot the most eX citing maintaining chase thai has ever been pulled off in tht territory, and the fact that ar automobile was the main featur, of the chase lends color to thu episode. The machine, which is { thirty horse power Cadalliac traversed roads and did cross country stunts over places wher, only horses and wagons haC gone before and were though impossible for an automobile The points where the mach1n went will be of interest to per sons knowing the country. Fron Globe to Fort Apache by the wa, of Rice, thence to Cooley's Rancl and from there to the Mineral from the latter point to Conch' and St. Johns, doubling back t. Concho and then to Hunt an, Woodruff, then to Snowflake and from there to Holbrook From here they went to Wood ruff, cut across country to Azte and went to Adamana, fror which place they made a coupl of trips back and forth.
 The machine returned to Glob
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Ed William, while target practis ing at his ranch last Monday, accidently shot one of his toes almost of. He is at the Hotel Brunswick at present under the doctors care.
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Sergeant A. Film, telegraph operator at the Cooley Ranch and Miss Cora Hathaway ot Knox County, Ohio. were united in marriage last Thursday.
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Miss Grace Maloy left for Pas, adena, Cal, were she will spend the winter with her sister
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Miss Emelia Despair is at the Cottage Hotel at present assist ing Miss Smith.
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Bud and Ed Howell, Jim Don ohue, Dick Grigsby and George Hennessey were in town a few days last week.
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Mrs Chas. Cooley and Mrs. I. Flannigan left for Snowflake Friday morning, where they will spend several days.
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George Hennessey left Satur- day morning for Tonto Basin to receive cattle.
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Mir. M. Schuster returned from his trip east. He reports having had nice time.
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C. Hess Jr, returned from Kansas City, Sunday morning.
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Last Friday evening at six minutes after nine the people of Holbrook were startled by q slight earthquake which lasted but a few seconds. Fortunately no damage was done but few people being badly frightened.
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Henry Kempennich left last Thursday for Whiteriver, where he went to attend business for the A. & B. Schuster firm.
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Robt. Smith and family spent Sunday at St. Joseph.
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MT. and Mrs. Joe Woods and son Joe returned from Los Ange les. where they spent a couple weeks
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Dr. Oldaker is in town for a few days.
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10
TO EXTEND Span
OF HUMAN LIFE
LIFE INSURANCE MEN
CONSIDER VITAL PROBLEM
Plain Business Proposition of Greatest
Economic Value to Country at
Large and OF Especial Value to Life
Insurance Interests Declares Ide.

Chicago, Dec. 10.-That further
steps are to be taken by the Associ-
alton of Life Insurance Presidents in
its campaign for prolonging human
life was indicated in the report sub
mitted to the organization at its an
nual meeting here today by its life
extension committee.
The problem before us" reported
Chairman George f. Ide of New York.
has been to decide in what direction
activity can be best exercised and to
what extent managers of life COM
panies would be justified in expending
the policyholders' money in the work
of improving general health conditi-
ons and in the education of the gem
eral public on the subject of hygiene
and sanitation. BY some the subject
of life extension has been regarded
as too visionary to receive serious at
tention by this association and the
benefits of any movement in this di-
rection as too uncertain to warrant
either the companies or the associ-
alton in spending any money in its
development. The contrary is true.
The lengthening of human life is a
plain business proposition of the
greatest economic value to the coun-
try at large and of especial value to
life insurance interests
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10
'LAST Day. EXERCISES OF
pUMPKINVIILE CENTER SCHOOL

The pupils of Pumpkinville Center
deestrict school invite you to attend
their exhibition at the NJ e. church
next Monday evening. very inter-
esting program under the direction
OF Mr. Glen Scott, the master" has
been prepared One of the primary
tots, Eta Stockman, will deliver the
address Of welcome. Four bright Sc
nor girls Mrs r. L. Oliver. Mrs Geo.
Rugg, Mrs Waffle and Mrs. Hunter,
will appear as gossips. The census
taker will also be present
No admission fee, but each lady is
asked 10 bring a box or basket with
lunch for two. These will be auction
ed off at the close of the exhibition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10
LOCALS
Pastime pictures please all.
See Lane q Son for signs.

Pastime pictures please all.
See Lane & Son for signs.
Phone Main for United Orchestra.
Wall paper. paints, etc. Lane & Son.
I. c. Snyder, chimney sweep. r 1919
Furniture for sale, parties leaving
town. Call 304 Bush street
For rent-Seven room house, north
side. enquore 223. Perkins ave.
Splendid business for sale. Only
requIres about $500. See Teutsch.
Wanted 5000 for four months.
'Give cattle for security. Phone Main
8.
A clean and careful shave always
at Mark Patton's shop. Across from
Alexanders. Phone for patrons.
Mothers, save your boys a sick
spell. Get him a pair of warm
shoes nj Eklund's. Great reductions.
For rent-Three furnished house
keeping rooms, electric lights, gas
stove and bath, 7O1 Thompson street.
Good looking and good wearing
school shoes for boys going at great
reduction at A. Eklund's. See win
dow.
Lost-Two red pups, Irish settlers.
about months old. Finder phone
Red 34s1 or notify Frank Earnheart.
Reward.
One acre land and small house on
corner Court and Ash streets. Price
very reasonable. See Lee Teutsch or
Dayton Barnhart.
Cold weather ls coming. We have
the best coal on the market. A ton
is 1000 lbs. at Pendleton Lum er
Yard. Phone Main o.
Spend your idle evenings In a gem
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10

tlemen's resort. Bowling, pool, bill
liards. shooting gallery. Pastime
Parlors. Hoover and Book.
For sale, 25 volumes Encyclopedia
Britannica, cloth bound. Original
price $50 Will take SIS. Inquire
IF" at this office.
Wanted-Positin as day nurse,
companion or cook in small family,
by woman of experience. No small
children. Phone Red 5O91
Read in December Sunset Maga-
zine, "San Francisco-the Exposition
City, Superbly illustrated In four
colors. Now on sale-all news
stands-15 cents.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10
EstraY Notice.

One span OF sorrel geldings some-
what old. Weight about 1850 pounds.
Any person notifying Chas. Lobaugh,
Pilot Rock, or John L. BARLEY, 30s
Lilleth street. Pendleton will be re-
warded
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-12-10

More moving pictures shown than
any other >theatre Z the city-the
'astime.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-21
SOLOMONVILLE LOCALS.

Solomonville, Ariz. Feb. 21.-Miss
Minnie Williams, of Ell Paso and Mrs.
Bass are here making jailor Holland
Bass a visit.
DR.. Chambers and wife, father and
mother Of w. r Chambers, clerk Of
the court. are here from Sodom, Ill,
making visit and trying the winter
climate.
Attorney W. c. Mcfarland has re-
turned by way OF Globe from Phoe-
nix
Frank NJ. Clark. of the Arizooa Bull
letin force, went TO Tucson to take in
the aviation meeting.
Mrs. l. E. Solomon Mrs. P Fruden-
thai and Mrs. T. S. Bunch are in SAT-
ford as guests of Mrs Morris Simons.
Sheriff A A. Anderson was a passen-
ger en- route to Phoenix with a crazy
man for the asylum.
H. W. Bishop went to Stafford to at
tend a meeting of the stockholders in
the Foster Commercial company.
Attorney Glenn, Of Ilincis-Danville
is here looking over the country with
some idea of settling here.
Married-At the court house by pro-
bate Judge T. s. Bunch. Mary E. Blake
TO Walter Barnard, of Texas.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-21
MARIA NEWS NOTES
AND PERSONAL MENTION

Maria, Tex. Feb. 21.-The Messrs.
Burnett and Garland Mellard and sis
ter Miss Willie Mae were in town Sat
urday,
Capt ]. 3. Gillette and son were in
from the ranch recently.
Mrs. V. NJ. Mason is visiting in Del
Rio.
Mrs. Fancher has returned from a
visit TO San Angelo
John Pool and wife are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Joel Finley. OF Valentine.
A. G. and G. n. Boyer spent Saturday
and Sunday in town with their parents
Jack Knight spent Suncay IN Ell Paso
with his mother.
L. L. Felix, of Nara Visa, II. NJ, ar
rived Sunday morning on :, visit to mis-
brother, Rev. A. T. Felix, of this city.
The infant child of Dr. ana Mrs. w.
E. Robertson has been sick the past few
days.
Mrs. F. A. Mitchell left MONDAY morn
ing for Uvalde to see her sister, who
has been quite i'll for some time.
Mrs. NJ. R. Mahon Is expecting her
sister. Miss Naomi Bishop, OF Austin, on
a visit
r. r. Smith was in from the ranch
Saturday.
During the illness of r H. Hayes, P.
c Williams is in charge of his stable
and stage line.
Misses Lorena and May Shannon and
+. B. Jordan and j. J. Clausich were
entertained at dinner recently by Mrs.
j. A. Harris.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-21
ALPINE Is BECOMING
CITY. OF AUTOMOBILES

Alpine, Tex, Feb. 21.-Tne Alpine
Auto company received another car OF
automobiles this week. Alpine is getting
to be city Of automobiles.
A S Gage has returned 20 San An
tonic, after spending few days in Al
pine looking over his ranch interests.
William Ferguson. of Wellington,
Kans., was in Alpine recently to buy q
trainload of cattle for shipment to that
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Highly. who have
made Alpine their home Tor a number of
years, are making arrangements to re-
turn TO their old home in Mangum.
Okla, where Mr.. Highly has purchased
a farm.
Sheriff ]. A Walton has gone to Sa-
olnal for few days visit with his par
ents and to meet his wife who is visiting
there She will return home with him.
j. w. Kokernot, of San Antonio, Is in
Alpine for a few days to deliver ship
ment OF cattle from his ranch in this
county to William Ferguson, Of Yelling
ton. Kans
h b. Russell and wife, or Maria, are
visiting judge and Mrs. B. c. Thomas.
John Anderson and family. OF Ma
rathon. were visiting relatives in Alpine
for few days lately.
charles Pruett and wife were in town
from their ranch in Jeff Davis county
Judge W. Van Sickle has gone to Fort
Stockton.