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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
DUAL PHONE SYSTEM
IS NOT YET CERTAIN
COUNCIL TAKES NO
ACTION ON MATTER
Invasion of Local Field by IndepeEl-
ent Company Is Discussed But No
Definite Action Is Taken.

Whether or not Pendleton Is to
have a dual telephone system is yet
10 be determined. rIe question was
brought up at last nights meeting of
the council but il was far from being
settled at that time. Mayor Murphy
and a majority of the members of the
council seemed to be IN favor of CIV
ing the independent company favor
able consideration but as there was
no formal application before the
council no definite action was taken.
The proposition was broached by
Mayor Murphy, who stated that he
had been requested by Mr.. Morsman
to bring up the subject to see what the
members of the council thought of
granting a franchise 20 a second tele-
phone company.
Councilman Stroble was the first
one called upon for an expression. He
declared in no uncertain language
that he was unalterably opposed to
granting a franchise 70 a second teIe-
phone company. He also declared he
could see no advantage in allowing
the Postal Telegraph company to en-
ter the local field. He said he be-
lieved the Postal company would
skin the people just as bad as the
Western Union" and he could see no
advantage in having two.
Councilman Brock was the second
man called upon by the mayor He
told the council just what he had al
ready told Mr.. Morsman. that If he
had outside capital sufficient to come
here and put in a plant, that he had
no objection to granting a franchise.
He was opposed, however, to granting
franchise to a company which pro-
posed to call upon Pendleton people
to buy stock.
Sharon's opinion was similar to that
of Brock. He said he had been given
to understand by horsman that he
had capital enough and did not need
to sell stock in Pendleton. He said that
Morsman had explained that If any
Pendleton people should desire to buy
their stock that they would have stock
to sell.
Councilmen Dyer and Ell also un-
derstood the proposition the same as
Mr.. Sharon, and they poth seemed
idNoidoie W the proposltlon Oh grant
ing the franchise, if one should be
asked for. Councilmen Strain and
Montgomery were not present.
Mayor Murphy, while not commit
ting himself definitely to the PROPOSE
tion, seemed to be favorable. He said
that as the result of a lengthy con-
ference with Morsman, he felt con-
WINGED that the Chicago man had nlen
ty Of financial backing to put in the
plant without local aid.
Before leaving Pendleton last week
Morsman said that If the council
looked with favor upon the PROPOSE
ticn he would mail a formal applica-
ton for franchise. HIS he had no
representative whatever at the meet
ing, 1t is not known whether or not
he will consider last nights action
as favorable. He is now in the east
and It will probably be several days
before he is heard from.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
TRULY
THERE WITH Bells

Pendleton went to Walla Walla to-
day with bells. This is not a mere
slang phrase, nor figure of speech.
II Is literally true. When the spe-
cial train pulled out for the Garden
City this morning 1t carried an en-
thusiastic delegation of local men and
women armed with sheep bells. Each
bell was labelled to the effect that It
was ringing for the Roundup and at
Walla Walla today they are being
used to that end.
On the special train this morning
approximately 200 people made he
trip to Walla Walla for Derby day.
However that does not truly repre-
sent the size of the Pendleton dele
cation at Walla Wella for the reason
that many made the trip by auto. A
large number of ladies made the trip
by train.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22

thrown by a big gray workhorse sup
piled by Frank Snyder, the well
known local wheat grower. The
horse has therefore been named
snyder" Neither rider was hurt.
Bucking horses for the bronco
busting contests, wild norses for the
wild horse race and fast cow-ponies
for the relay, pony express and other
races are arriving daily and Sheriff
Taylor at last feels that he has enough
animals in sight to make his part Of
the big show a complete success. He
says however, that 1t will be neces-
sary for every man who has prom
ised to bring horse to make good
that promise and he does not think
that anyone will fail him this late in
the day.
The horses tried out last evening,
as well as those that are still coming
In will be given the best Of feed and
care from now on until the Round
up
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
Central Electric Meeting.

indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 22.-Trac-
ton men from all over the middle
west gathered at the Claypool hotel
today to hold the annual meeting Of
the general Electric Railway associ-
alton. Officials of the association say
that the next decade will witness a
marvellous growth in the building Of
interurban electric lines which will
cover the entire west in a network
of steel. 1t will soon be possible to
travel from New York to st. Louis
by trolly. without any other means of
transportation, and, with the filling
of few more gaps, nearly all the big
cities of the central west will be con-
nected, with electric lines. Various
papers on technical topics will be read
at the convention.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
MOB GATHERING ABOUT
JAIL TO LYNCH PRISONER

Louisville, Mass, Sept. PA Wild
ly excited and RAPIDLY increasing mob
is gathering around the jail demand
ing the life of .Swinton .Parmenter.
who is accused of the murder of jamie
Sharpe, aged 1S. He was captured
last night at Winona and escaped
lynching narrowly while en- route here.
Enragei farmers are flocking into
town and the sheriff has sworn in a
number OF deputies and has barricad-
ed the inside of the Jail. The body Of
and girl was found i'm the woods i'm
July and finally Parmenter was ar
rested,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
RUMORED MAJOR TAGGART
WILL BE COURT MARTIALED

New York, Sept. 22.-Military cir
cles are buzzing over the report to-
day that Major Elmore Taggart Of
the Twenty-fourth U. S. infantry is
TO be court martialed. Rumor con-
meets Taggarts name with the recent
Fort Ontario scandal. which resulted
in the dismissal Of Captain Peck of
the Fourth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
PART OF GRAIN HANDLERS
RETURN TO THEIR WORK

grain handlers employed by the Pa
cific Coast Elevator company, the
Campbell company and
Frank Thorne, returned to work to-
day. The firms granted the demands
for forty cents an hour and sixty
cents for overtime for which the
strikers went out yesterday. The Bal
four-Guthrie company, Kerr Clifford
company and the Northwestern Ware
house company have not signed the
agreement yet, consequently fifty men
are still out.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
STORY OF PLOT TO KILL
MIkADO WAS EXAGGERATED

Toxic, Sept. 22.-Authorities today
assert that the details of the plot to
assassinate the Mikado as published
here yesterday were exaggerated. Ar
rests, said to have been made in this
connection, were made several months
ago when a group of fanatics were
discovered making bombs These men
have since been imprisoned. Author
tiles say they failed to find any defi-
mite plot against the Mikado.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
BANDITS HOLDUP MEN
IN SEATTLE HOTEL.

Seattle, Sept. 22.-A squad of twen-
ty-five police is searching the city to-
day for three bandits who cody walk
ed into a tourist hotel in the heart
OF the city last night while a thous-
and passed the doorways and held up
score of men in the hotel. They
went into the bar room then and RI
fled the cash register. escaping with
a hundred dollars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
WIVES ARE SECONDS IN
DUEL: BOTH MEN KILLED

Pelgram. Ga. Sept. 22.-With their
wives as seconds, Chas. Tate and John
two young farmers, fought
a duel today. They met on farm
road and each walked twenty-five
PAGES. turned and fired several shots.
Both were killed. The duel was the
result of quarrel the women had
Merchant dared Tate to
shoot II out. and Tate accepted.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
OF WINTER
STOPS ALASKA TRAFFIC

Seattle, Sept. 22.-An navigation to
Alaska was closed today until next
June. Most of the Yukon steamers
reached St, Michaels this week ac-
cording to today's cables. Several
freighters caught in the ice will be
imprisoned all winter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
American Civic Alliance

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 22.-The
New York state congress of the Am.
erican Civic Alliance convened in
Rochester today for session OF three
days during which many men of
prominence will deliver addresses on
civic topics.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
Islands Solve Problem.
CONTINUED on page five.)
CHRISTY AND WIFE
MAY MARRY AGAIN

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Sept. ga
} A reconciliation between Howard
Chanler Christy, the artist and
his wife who figured in a sem
sational divorce trial here is
likely according to friends. 1t
is said the thing which stands
between them is an agreement
} as to the place Of residence.
} Mrs. Christy will not live in
GAINESVILLE and Christy will not
live in New York.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
MINTOSH OFFERS $4,000 FOR
FIGHT BETWEEN BIG BLACKS

Boston, Sept. 22.-An offer of thir-
ty thousand dollars for a match be-
tween Jack Johnson and Sam Lang
ford by Hugh Mcintosh was received
today by the big blacks and negotia-
tions for a battle which were broken
off yesterday were resumed today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
JOHN GILMAN ELECTED
TO COMMAND G. A. r.

Atlantic City, Sept. 22.-John Gill
man of Boston, was elected command
er in chief Of the Grand Army of the
Republic at this afternoons session of
the encampment here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22

Mrs. Amy q. Dunn Of Sand Point,
Idaho, came in on the Northern Pa
cific train this morning and will visit
with her mother, Mrs. N. Bowman.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
UNCLE JOS REFUSES
To ENTER VAUDEVILLE.

, Danville, Sept. 22-"I will not
, go into vaudeville for $4,000
, weekly or three times that
, sum-" declared Uncle Joe Can
, non today. He admitted that a
, Toledo. Ohio. theatrical man
, had telegraphed such an offer.
, but insisted that he did not take
, the trouble to read the missive
, through. 81 have got other
, things to do than trying to ele-
, vate the vaudeville stage" he
} said.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-22
HARVEST DAYS
NEARLY OVER
Most Successful Season in
Many Years Drawing to a
Close.
YIELD OF GRAIN HAS
BEEN ABOVE AVERAGE

COmbiner All Through But Headers
I'm Some Sections Have Few More
Days to WOrk-Conditions Have
Been Ideal So That Season Has Been
Unusually Short-Grain Remark.
ably Free from Smut and Yields ol
the Best-Half Of Crop Sold.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

and provide seats until the teachers
come and have to look up some one
to tell them where the institute is to
be held. 1t is not pleasant nor en-
couraging for the institute teachers
to have to open up the house and
sweep it out for before beginning the
days work
BY all means avoid picnics and out
door meetings. More good will be
accomplished with 25 earnest people
comfortably seated than with 200
standing and moving about in the
open. Save the picnics for the politi-
clans and orators; the institute is a
school for teaching or is worse than
useless. Each family or individual
should provide dinner, but the pub
lie dinner or picnic is an abomina-
ton to the institute. The institute
can not compete with a public din
ner with certain class of people,
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

Second. Let the State Director of
Institutes know the sort of institute
you want. If after the first institute
is held, it does not suit you, don't go
away and complain to your neigh
bors; but go to the Director of Insti-
tutes and tell him wherein the insti-
tute has failed to come up to your
expectations.
Third See that suitable place is
provided for the meeting. Good
teaching is not possible at outdoor
meetings. The institute is not a pic
mic nor public speaking" it is
school. Remember this and provide
some building that will comfortably
seat the audience.
If hall is secured or the school
house is to be used, don't wait to
open up this building, sweep it out
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
TEN THINGS TO DO IN JULY.

L. Iay-by all in the way-with
low cultivation The old root-cuttng have
cost the South millions
and be sure to plant between far
practicable
p Don't let stubble Put growing
COW peas or soy beans quickly possible
j. Haul thresh as as dry
enough If straw is stacked outside
keep dry and sound.
L. If have II Ike of the hay
crop Don't cut too much time, don't cutting
until the seed have rpened
D. Clean the weed
and along the roadsdes mower
scyhe mattock will very along this
g. Look after the hogs they have
plenty of feed, quarters
to eat to live in cholera
Keep the garden going and eat less
and vegetables Arrange to
served where fresh be had.
r. See that there and to
disease-carryng
place about the house where
%. Take occasional hadays days outing and give
children the Eat a
and then and let get from
the hot work in the kitchen. be
golsend wife
negbors about things will help neighborhood
Get Farmers Institute for Farm Women:
plan for better a petition rural
delivery, and demonstration
them already; IL can't telephone system
school is consolidation
of districts and good
and farmers bulletins into homes your neighbors
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02


like to know that there was no read
er OF this paper who did not believe
in the value of the farmers insti-
tute, but we fear that some of them
are still Indifferent to this means of
carrying information TO the men on
the farms. The vast majority of our
readers, however, believe in the
power of applied knowledge, and
believing In this power are interest
ed In extending a knowledge of agri-
culture whenever and wherever pos
sible We have never been quite
able to understand the greater influ-
ence. with the masses. of the
agitator than that OF the educator.
For many. many years public speak
ers have been telling the farmers of
the South what they could do and
what they ought to do. We have
been told of our glorious history, of
our superiority as nation and as a
people, and the charm OF our climate
and the fertility Of our soil, and yet,
the story seems still TO possess all
the charm OF one heard for the first
time.
The Mission of the Institute is to
Teach.
Personally we believe this sort of
stun has no place in the farmers
institute. We believe In entertain
ment and amusement. We believe
even In professional orators and the
politicians (some OF them) but we
believe the farmers institute should
be made n school for teaching, and
II only one or two days in the year
can be devoted to such school. the
man who deals only In generalities
and pleasing words has no place on
tho program. We are convinced
from a rather extensive experience
and observation that the orator and
the politician should be carefully ex-
cluded from all farmers institutes
unless they can and will confine their
efforts To the giving OF agricultural
instruction or the imparting OF facts
which will enable the farmer TO
make better crops and market them
more profitably or to build better
home and get more out of life. We
believe the need for fattery and en-
tertainment has been fully supplied
1t Is not what to do that the people
need to be told, but how to do IL.
II this Is what is needed. then the
farmers themselves should take up
the farmers Institutes and see that
they are made of the most value
possible.
The Institute Should Belong To the
Farmers.
How can readers of The Progress
sive Farmer and Gazette make the
Institutes what they should be?
First. Make request for an insti-
tute signed by at least 100 farmers.
who thereby pledge themselves to at
tend and help in making the neces-
sary arrangements. This is a farm
ers' institute and is not for the bene-
III OF those who are directing the
institute work nor for the pleasure
OF those who are to do the teaching.
II the farmers don't want it, then no
one wants il and no institute should
be held. Surely there is some reader
OF this paper in every community
who Is sufficiently interested in an
institute to obtain the signatures of
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
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with a picnic or a public speaking.
If it is not school for serious work,
it has no place among our institu-
tons.
Insist on an Institute for the Women
Fourth Insist on an institute, at
the same time and place, for the
women on the farms. The life of
the farm women is too serious and
full of labor and troubles to ask
them to study field problems. They
have greater problems of their own
which they alone will solve and for
half the day at least they should be
supplied with teachers capable of in
structing them in the principles and
facts on which household economics
and practice are based. So far as
we know only one State, North Caro-
lima, in our territory holds special
institutes for women 1t is time the
women of the other States wake up
and demand that their institute di-
rectOrs treat them fairly. They are
entitled to theirs, and should arouse
their tardy institute directors to
sense of their duty to the most i'm
portant part of the farm, the farm
home.
Have a Local Institute Committee.
Fifth. Before the above things are
done there must be organization.
What any one may do none are like
ly to do. If the Farmers Union, or
some other existing organization,
does not take up this work, a farm
ers' institute local committee should
be formed to do it.
This is an age in which knowledge
counts for more than anything else
in all lines of work. There is but
one cure for the present agricultural
conditions and that is greater knowl-
edge. The farmers Institutes are one
of the tried and proved methods of
spreading agricultural knowledge,
and no patriotic citizen can afford
to be Indifferent to their success. If
they have not been all that they
should have been, go to work your
self and make them better. To crit
icise and tear down is mean work
any one can do; but to direct and
build up an institution that will re-
suit in the growing of better crops
and the making better lives is work
any one may feel proud Of
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

will help mixed There
other things institute
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02
$500 More a Year Farming: How to Get 1t
BY HELPING TO MAKE THE FARMERS INSTITUTES
MORE VALUABLE
Why Your Community Needs Institute, and How to Go
About Getting It-Dont ime "Oraorvu an,
Vaueless Generalities-The Institute Really "A School
BY TAFT Butler.

oW CAN THE readers of The This to
Progressive Farmer bu i
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

Special efforts are being made to
insure creditable exhibition Of
Southern corn at the Ohio Valley Ex
position in Cincinnati, August 20
September oath. The fact that all
the largest yields of corn have been
made in the South, and that the
work of the corn club boys has
proved beyond all question that the
South is ''the real corn belt" should
encourage Southern farmers to let
the world know about these things.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-02

Our advertisers are guaranteed
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-20
UNLISTED STOCKS.

]. A. Minnear e. Co. say today:
For the short session today stocks,
particularly on the curb moved In
very interesting manner, interesting
because many issues showed substan-
tial advances. Algomah, South Lake
and Indiana were the conspicuous
features. Algomah sold up TO SIS,
Indiana was taken at $1Sh and
South Lake orders up to sS% were
untitled. Bohemia also jumped a
point. The buying of the Lake group
was aggressive all day and at all
times offerings were very light. SUI
perior and Boston moved up over a
point with remarkable ease. We get
Il from an excellent source that this
issue will show big movement in
the very near future. Mine devel-
opments do certainly warrant higher
prices for the stock.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-20
Minnear & Co.'s Gossip

The option on $2.O0O,OO0 convertible
bonds which the Ray Central Copper
company has given 10 the General
Development company has again been
extended, this time to- December LIST.
The showing of c. & a. and s. e Il.
rs shown by the monthly smelter re-
ports justiles the recent strength I'm
those issues.
Particularly gratifying was the
showing of the CORTLAND property,
which has been lightly estimated in
the past.
Greene Cananca ha' been producing
at its regular rate and as the costs
per pound have been brought down to
"A level whore a profit can be made at
going prices for the metal il does not
contemplate any drastic curtai'meni.
on the other hand no great efforts To
increase production at this time will
be made.
The strike on Arcldian is consid
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-20
Gay & SturSiS' Gossip

Calumet Mich, Aug. 20.-The gem
eral market held strong ana closing
prices were at an advance for the day.
In the Boston list Lake advanced
TO S9h, Indiana to 1914. North Lake
II and Superior & Boston So.
The Boston market certainly looked
good and seemed TO foreshadow higher
prices for next week.
In the curbs, Algomah was the fea-
ture with sales recorded as high as
10. Fremont also became active with
sales at Az closing at that price.
South Lake was strong selling at
So. Bohemia was 6ia bid with very
little stock offered.
New Baltic has it's boiler i'm place
and Is drilling with steam power. An
air compressor has been ordered.
New York, Aug. 20-Bearish SEN
timent is growing but only amongst
the traders. These traders point to
the dullness of the market and To the
fact that the trading is confined to
interests appear conservatively bull
ish ana while not anticipating any
immediate boom, look for a gradual
Improvement.
The announcement that the Small
issue of state bonds recently issued
had all been sold To private invest
ors did not stimulate the bond mar
ket To any degree but taken into COM
paTison with the time when they
wer originally offered for sale shows
concluslyely that there Is an inn
provementl i'm the bond market.
The flowing supply of stocks seems
To be larger but with the growing
ease of money, we still believe that
stocks should be bought on all de-
clines.-J. III. wainwright.
Houghton, Mich. Aug. 20.--Fremont
has been drifting on the vein for a
distance of so feet at depth of 80
feet and has exposed n commercial
ore Deposit of much promise. IL Is
composed Of copper glance and red
oxide and for the first 30 feet averaged
rs inches. but has now widened 10
three feeL-Gay q Sursis.