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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20
SHEEP SEASON IS
ALMOST At HEIGHT
SHEARING COMMENCED,
BUYERS ARE GATHERING
Few Days VIII See Eastern Oregon
Wool Season in Full Swing-Some
Growers in Arlington Country Have
Clips Ready for Market-Sales
Dates All Set.

The shearing of sheep has COM
menced, the buyers of wool are gath
ering in Pendleton from all parts of
the east and from the south and a
few days more will see eastern Ore
CONS wool season at its height. From
present indications it will be one of
the most important and prosperous
seasons the growers of wool in this
state have ever enjoyed.
Shearing has been in progress in
the Arlington country for several days.
Some growers have their clips ready
for the market, others will finish up
this week, but the great majority are
just getting ready to begin shearing.
The Cunningham Sheep and Land
company, one of the largest sheep
companies in the state, will finish up
this week. while the J. E. Smith COM
pany. another large concern. is in
stalling the machinery for their shear
ing plant and will be in full swing by
the first of next week.
Reports from all sections where any
shearing at all has been done are to
the effect that the fleeces are re-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20
C. ]. FERGUSON WILL
CAPTAIN COMPANY |
CHOSEN LAST NIGHT
BY LOCAL GUARDSNIEN
Campaign Now On For Recruits For
COmpany-Thirty New Men Need
ed-Encampment ut American
Lake This Summer.

Charles J. Ferguson, local attorney
and former member of the Second
Oregon Infantry, is now the captain
of Company L, third regiment o. N.
G. At least he will be the captain
as soon as the necessary formalities
can be conducted.
At a meeting or the members of
the company held at the armory last
night the guardsmen voted unani-
mously for Mr.. Ferguson as captain
and then they started an enthusiastic
campaign for recruits for the COM
pany. At the outset of the meeting
D. B. Bailey, retiring captain, took
charge and he then turned the meet
ing over to Captain M. S. Kern, who
as a staff officer. conducted the. in
formal election of captain.
In response to a call for a speech
after being made captain Mr.. Fergu-
son spoke with much enthusiasm of
the outlook for the company. He
praised the guard as furnishing ex-
cellent training for young men and
asked that every member of the COM
pany become busy at once securing
recruits for the company. He is an
xious to secure some 80 or 40 new
men at once and to make company L
one of the best militia companies in
the state.
George Hartman, Jr., chairman of
the Commercial association commit
tee, and former first lieutenant in the
Second Oregon, also made an enthusi-
astic talk and predicted success for
the company. Captains Kern and
Bailey did likewise.
Before the meeting disbanded sew
eral enlistments were taken last
night and enlistment blanks were dis
tributed among the men who prom
ised to secure recruits for the COM
.pany.
1t is desired to get some 80 or more
new men at once as it is now neces-
sary to enlist men by an early date in
May or else the new men cannot go
to camp. The encampment this year
is to be at American Lake in August.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20

markably free from dirt this year
while the staple is fully up to the
standard. being both long and firm
The condition of the market is good
and with the quality of the wool as
good as any ever produced in eastern
Oregon it is expected that the prices
will be good.
The buyers seem anxious to bid on
the different clips, but so far no sales
have been reported. The sheepmen
are very well satisfied with the condi-
ton of the market and unless prices
better than those being offered at
present are forthcoming 1t is probable
that a larger percentage of the crop
will be held for sales days than was
held last year. The general sentiment
seems to prevail that 20 cents will be
the ruling price, depending entirely on
the quality.
The dates for the public sales in
Idaho and Oregon have finally been
agreed upon by buyers and sellers,
and the revised schedule of dates as
it will now stand, is as follows:
May 16-Mountain Home.
May 1S-Payette and Weiser.
May 20. Midvale and Cambridge.
May 24-Pendleton.
May 25-Echo.
May 27-Pilot Rock.
May 31-Heppner
June 3-Midvale and Cambridge.
June 4-Payette and weiser.
June 7-Shaniko.
June 10-Pendleton.
June 11-Pilot Rock.
June 13-Vale.
June 14-Ontario.
June 15-Mountain Home.
June 17-Baker City.
June 21-Shaniko.
June 24-Heppner.
July 1-Wallowa county.
July 7-Shaniko.
july 12-Wallowa county
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20
PEARY'S POLAR SPEED.
Harry De Windt Tells OF Distances
He Travelled Eight Years Ago.

London.-Harry de Windt. the
well-known explorer. has made the
following statement on the subject Of
the doubt that has been cast in Am
erica on some of the distances ira
versed by Peary near the Pole:
Eight years ago I travelled with
dog sleds over 1900 miles OF Arctic
ice between the Kolyma river and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20
Bering straits. We were gene

Bering straits. We were generally
four to eight miles out to sea and en-
countered, as a. rule, very rough ice.
On one occasion did forty-four
miles in one day, and on another forty
five miles. with light sleds but bad
ly-fed dogs obtained from the ST.
berian coast. or course our speed
was often only ten miles a day, or
even less, according to the height and
dimensions OF the ice hummocks, but
I thing 1t only fair to Peary that facts
such as these should be known"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20

E. L. McBroom. former manager
of the Golden Rule hotel and more
recently proprietor of a farm near
Ritter, has returned to Pendleton from
an extended visit to Portland and
Wheeler county points. He still claims
this city as his home.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20
Card of Thanks.

We take this means of expressing
our sincere thanks to all the friends
who so kindly remembered us during
our late bereavement with acts of
sympathy and beautiful flowers.
MR.. AND MRS. F. MYTENGER.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20

County School Superintendent We'll
les has returned from a visit to the
school at Stanton station.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20

Vanity outlives every other emotion
in human character.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-04-20

P. L. Weitley of Elgin is here to
care for business interests.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
WANTS TO WREsTLE G0TCH
Hackenschmidt, Russian Lion, Negotia-
ting for Match With Mahmout and
Zbyszko as Preliminary.

The one wrestler with an almost
certain chance of drawing Frank
Gotch from his announced retirement
is back to dispute with the giant
Iowan his right to the highest honors
of the mat world. This fellow is
George Hackenschmidt, the Russian
Lion, who acted more like a lamb
than his nom de plume when he ap-
peared against the master wrestler
from Humboldt, when the two clashed
in Chicago for the championship in
April, 1908.
Hack is not out to meet Gotch with
out first showing that he has all of his
old-time ability and little more, too.
He plans to meet all corners, and it is
probable that three-cornered elimina-
ton test will be arranged with Zbyszko,
Mahmout and Hackenschmidt as the
contestants, and the survivor either to
meet Gotch, or, in case the champion
Is sincere in his retirement, be pro-
nounced the ruler of the wrestling
world.
Both Zbyszko and Mahmout are
flooding the country with tales of in
creased prowess, which will have to
be shown. They may be better than a
year ago, and then again they may
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

was wanted for my base running. Aft
er got out of Pittsburg I shot up in
the game and in brief period was at
Cincinnati. The crowd down there
did not have much faith in me, al
though 1 had some friends, and had
a slump. Then Manager Chance trad
ed for me and made good the pre-
diction of the class prophet-and was
with the Worlds Champions, although
I hadn't helped them win the cham
pionship.
I think succeeded as well as I
have done by close study Of the game
and by closer watching Of every move.
Experience has taught me a lot.
I never have regretted going into
baseball 1t is a good clean game,
and clean way of earning ones
livelihood But don't tackle it If you
are looking for something easy. It
is hard and wearing work-and a
player grows old faster than men in
most other lines Of business.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
GARDNER AGAIN WINS TITLE
Chicago Boy Defeats Hugh Ley Of De-
troit, Up, in Final 36-HoIe
Match at Yale.

Robert A. Gardner of the HinsdaIe
Golf club of Chicago won the golf
championship at Yale the other day by
defeating Hugh Lee, the Michigan
champion, by 1 up in the 36-hole final
match. This makes the second year
Gardner has won the title.
Gardner has been prominent in ath-
letics at Yale, being considered one
Of the best pole vaulters in the east
in addition to having twice won the
golf championship of the school. He
was also honored few days ago by
being elected captain of the Yale
golf team for a second time.
The Chicago boy was golf champion
of the United States last year, hay-
Ing won the title by defeating H.
Chandler Egan Of Exmoor in the final
match at the Chicago Golf club. His
playing this year has not been up to
the standard he set in 1909. but he
improved greatly toward the end of
the season, although he failed to
qualify for the national championship
at Brookline. His most notable golf
feat of the year was the defeat of Wal
ter Travis in the final match of the
open tournament at Glen View.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

the folding doors sideways, and every
time he sits down the man in the fiat
below kicks because we move the
piano so often.
Tacks was also present.
Tacks is my youthful brother-in-law
with mind like a walking delegate
because he's always looking for trou-
BILE, and when he finds it he passes it
up to somebody who doesn't need it.
Evening, joint" gurgled Uncle
Peter. Late, aren't your"
Cars blocked; delayed me-"
sighed
New York will be a nice place
when they get it finished, won't it?"
chirped Tacks.
Just then Aunt Martha squeezed in
from a shopping excursion and went
out in the hall while she counted up
and dragged out the days spells for
Clara J. to look at
Aunt Martha is Uncle Peters wife,
only she weighs more and breathes
oftener
When the two of them visit our
DlTQ cage dC the same Llu1S Inc JdultOI
has to go out and stand in front of the
building with view to catching it if
it falls.
That night I waded into all the
sporting papers and burned dream
pipes till the smoke made me dizzy.
The next day I hit the track with
three sure-fires and couple of per-
hapses.
There was nothing to it. All had
to do was to keep my nerve and not
get side-tracked and I'd have enough
coin to make Andrew Carnegie's check
book look like a punched meal ticket
I played them-and when the An
gelus was ringing Moses O'Brien and
three other bookbinders were out buy
ing meal tickets with my money.
Things went along this way for
about a week and l was all to the bad.
One evening Clara J. said to me:
John, looked through your check
book today and I've had a cold in my
chest ever since. At first I thought
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

Seeker football has not yet gained
strangle hold on western university
athletes.
Zbyszko made three unknowns lay
down in short order the other night
at Rochester.
A magazine writer declares the
game of football the greatest inspira-
ton for poetry of any sport in Amer
lea.
Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian
runner, has challenged Alfred Shrubb
to another 15-mile race anywhere the
Englishman may select.
John K. Tener, an old baseball man.
put it over very neatly in Pennsyl-
vania. He is now governor. This has
been a great year for Quaker play
ers.
Abe Attel complains that all his OBJ
ponents want him to let them stick
the limit. Abe should not object to
this. Suppose they asked him to lay
down?
President Lynch of the National
league says he has several reforms in
mind. The question is, Do the Nation
al league magRates want to be re-
formed?
When a minor league baseball play
er manages to reach major league 30
ciety his home folks think he rs a won
der. When he comes back to work in
a paint shop they think he missed his
calling.
owen Moran, the English light
weight fighter, hopes to end Bat Mel
sons pugilisitic career. He probably
will have to go more than 20 rounds
to convince Bat that no more addi-
tons to Hegewisch are practicable.
Miss Cecil Lietch is not woman golf
champion of Great Britain, as many
think. This impression prevailed
owing to the Lietch-Hilton match. In
which Miss Lietch, only Is years old,
defeated one of the greatest amateur
men golfers in the world. Miss Lietch
won the match by nervy putt on the
last green.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

had opened the refrigerator by mis-
take"
At last the blow had fallen.
1 had promised her faithfully before
we were married that I'd never play
the ponies again ane 1 fell and broke
my word.
The accident was painful, and I'd
be a sad scamp to put her wise at this
late day, especially after being fried
to a finish.
I simply didn't dare confess that my
money had gone into fund to furnish
a home for incurable bookmakers-
what to do? What to do?
She had me lashed to the mast.
May I inquire" my wife continued
with the breath of winter in her tones,
why it's all going out and nothing
coming in? Have you begun so soon
to lead double life?"
Mother, call your baby boy back
home! If Uncle Peter would only
drop In, or Tacks or Aunt Martha or
even the janitor!
Suddenly it occurred to me: Dear
lie" / said, you have surprised my
secret, and now nothing remains but
the pleasure of telling you every
thing"
A thaw set In.
'As you have stated, not Incorrect
ly, my dear, large bundles of Green
Fellows have severed their home ties
and tiptoed into the elsewhere" I con-
tinued, gradually getting my nerve
back.
The thermometer continued to go
up.
CLARA J., on several occasions you
have expressed a desire to leave this
torn-up city and retire to the wood
lands, haven't your asked.
She nodded and the weather grew
warmer.
"Once you said to me, ooh, John, if
they'd only take New York off the
operating table and give the poor city
a chance to get well, how nice it
would be!'-didn't your"
Another nod.
Well 1 said, backing Munchausen
in corner and dragging his medals
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

Dinkalorum would net me enough to
give Bunch a line of sad talk, so 1
stepped up to the poor-box and con-
tributed.
Dinkalorum started off in the lead
like a pale streak, and I Immediately
bought an entirely new set of furni-
ture for the fat.
About half way around locomotive
whistle happened to blow near by;
Dinkalorum, being a Union horse,
thought it was six o'clock and refused
absolutely to work a minute over
time.
had to put the furniture back in
the store.
In the next race 1 decided to play a
system of my own invention, so took
my program, counted seven up, four
down and two up, all of which result
ed in Pink Slob at go to 1.
It looked good and handed Isadore
I,onghnger $40 for the purpose of
tearing $500 away from him q little
later on.
Pink Slob got away in the lead, but
ne maze the Va @NASN
instead of running, with the result
that when the other horses were back
in the stable, Pinkie was still giving
q heel and toe exhibition around near
third base.
1t wasn't my day, so squeezed into
the thirst parlor and bathed my in
iured feelings with sarsaparilla.
Just before the last race l ran
across Bunch. He was over $500 to
the good and he wanted to treat me to
a lot of kind words he felt like saying
about himself,
Oh! but maybe he wasn't the city
bov with the head in the suburbsl
When 1 reached home that night ]
felt like a sock that needs darning.
Clara ]. had invited Uncle Peter to
take dinner with us and he began to
give me the nervous look-over as soon
as answered roll call
Uncle Peter is a very stout old gen.
tleman. When he squeezes into our
little fat the walls act like they are
bow-legged
Uncle Peter always goes through
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

It was news in racing circles the
Sther day that the present season will
see the end Of Danny Maher as the
leading figure IN the saddle on English
racing tracks on the fiat. He will re-
tire with a fortune Of more than a
million dollars, earned during his ca
reer on the turf
Makers retirement, it is said, is due
to the fact that he cannot do less
than 126 pounds, and this is almost a
prohibitive weight for any man who
aspires to be leading jockey in Eng
land.
The English racing track will con-
tinue to know him as trainer. Maher
does not, however, intend to make
his home in England, as many of his
friends imagine. His heart is in he
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
GOT HIS START IN CHICAGO
Johnny Kane, Star Utility Player %
Champion Cubs, Tells OF ms
Early Baseball Days.
BY JOHNNY KANE.

fconvriebt 1910 by Joseph B. Bowles.'
1 got my start playing ball az scnooi
in Chicago and at Hyde PARK f1leH
school, where / played both the IN
field and outfeld Up to the time
graduated from High school had hou
thought of playing ball as proles'
sion, although l was wild ABOUT tne
game. l remember once played
game and put on evening clothes over
the uniform so as to make sure I
wouldn't miss class dance or pail
game either.
When our class graduated. the class
historian, in writing about me, pre-
dicted that l would be playing bail on
the worlds championship team III
1909-and I guess I decided when l
read that to make good for the propn-
ct. Anyhow, it put the idea of play
ing hall professionally into my nina
| wanted to try it because | had been
trouble in making good. In fact
the time I was boy and they were
my heroes.
I got my trial out at Pittsburg, Kan
watching the Colts under Arson from
Ias, and because of NY experience at
High school and playing with prairie
made so good that the people out
there wouldn't let me 60 Once l
was traded off, and my friends raised
such a row that within two days !
was back 1t is easier to play ball
when a crowd takes that much inter
est in you They kept me going.
was trying to play up to the idea they
had of me, and I tell you there Is
more in that than one thinks. If
fellow feels that the crowd and every
one has faith in him and believes
he can do something, it gives him
faith and confidence in himself and
he is far more likely to make good
than If they were yelling at him.
Ny work attracted attention ano
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
Seven, come eleven!

Seven, come eleven!
After promising Clara J. that I
would never again light pipe at the
race track, there I stood, one of the
busiest puff-puff ladies on the circuit.
Well, the truth of the matter is just
this: I fell asleep at the switch and
somebody put the white lights all over
me.
Just how I happened to join the
Dream Builders association I don't
know, but for several weeks 1 was
Willie the Wild Boy at the race track
and I kept all the bookmakers busy
trying not to laugh when they took
my money.
Every day when showed up at the
gate the pipers played Darling,
Dream Of Mel" and every time I
picked a skate the Smokers society
went into executive session and elect
ed me a life member.
Every horse that finished last gave
me the trembling lip as he crawled
home, well aware Of the fact that
had caught him with the goods.
I blame Bunch Jefferson for putting
the bug in my central.
Bunch went down to the skating
pond one day with SIS and picked
four live wires at an average Of 8 to L.
Then he began to talk about himself.
After that event whenever I hap
pened to meet Bunch he would raise
his megaphone and fill the neighbor-
hood with hot ozone, fresh from the
oven.
It was pitiful to see that boy swell.
Just 20 cure Bunch and drive him
out of the balloon business l made up
my mind one day I'd run down to the
Flatfish Factory and drag a few hon
est dollars away from the bookmakers
SPLASH
That's where I fell overheard.
One bright Saturday P. M. found me
clinging to a wad the size of a foun-
tain pen and trying to decide whether
I'd better play Dinkalorum at 40 to
or Mysteries at 9 to 5.
I finally decided that a ten-spot on
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
EXPENSE OF FOOTBALL TEAM
Costs Harvard Over $4,000 Annually
to Condition GrldIron Men
$127,945 for Athletics,

One thousand dollars per player for
an eight-week season is what it cost
Harvard to turn out high-cIass foot
ball team. This does not mean ST., 600
for an eleven, but nearer 5000 for a
squad Of about 35 men.
In commenting upon criticism over
the expenditure of s127,945.s9 for Har-
ward athletics during the years 1909
1910, the Harvard Bulletin says: "The
sum is large, no doubt, and it repre-
sents the increase of several thousand
dollars over the expenses of the year
preceding. But the high cost of living
seems to be a spear that knows no
brother, and it costs a good deal more
to put through any schedule of games
today than it did few years ago."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

land, the home of his parents, and
when he finishes with the turf, he in
tends to settle down among the hills
of Tipperary, where he can combine
the breeding of high-class thorough
breds with training horses.
Altogether he has been first 112
times this season, but is still one
point behind the wonderful Australian
boy, Wooton The nearest English
rider has ridden only 80 winners.
The Sportsman comments on the
decadence of home-bred jockeys, and
says Maher stands out by himself as
the best jockey of the day, but his
contemporaries are weak by COM
parison with the days when not one,
but dozen, horsemen of his weight
were available.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07
ReaurepaIre Makes clean swssn

Frank Beaurepaire, the Australian
swimmer, who has made a clean sweep
of the big events in England this sea-
son, is not through with his record
breaking feats for his latest attempt
was on the worlds record for 500
meters. He was successful, for he
swan the distance in seven minutes
Q Is seconds and this is 4 Is seconds
better than the former worlds record
made by Otto Scheff, of Austria In
1906. The swim took place at the
Westminster baths, London, and as
the pool is A yards long Beaurepaire
had to make IL lengths and 1S yards
ia feet.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07

not. A series of bouts between the
three invaders, however, should prove
highly interesting, and another Gotch-
Hackenschmidt tussle would be of
worldwide Importance, as there are
many on the other side of the Atlantic
who believe Hacks stories of the I'M
fair treatment in the bout here and
stin consider the Lion" the best Of
che, worlds wrestlers.
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