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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
A Word to the
Wise Christmas
SHOPPER

The wise Christmas shopper is the
early one. The majority of man.
kind-and womankind, too-is prone
to wait until the last moment-even
until Christmas Eve.-and then rush
breathlessly from place to place. only
to find the choice goods gone.
The wise go early about this i'm
portant task and find 1t, the earlier
they go, the greater pleasure. Now
10 the time. Our stock is complete and
new. and we can promise to all who
come. that prompt and courteous at
tention which has made our store a
pleasure to Christmas buyers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
Housekeeping Rooms for Rent.

Unfurnlshed housekeeping rooms
for rent in the East Oregonian build
ing. Steam heat, electric lights, hot
and cold water and bath. Recently
renovated Enquire at East Orego-
nian office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

1ation. S. S. S. increases the resistive
powers of the system and by strength
ening and building up the vitality,
allows nature to make perfect and
lasting cure. Book describing the
disease and any medical advice sent
free to all who write.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Gs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
SCROFULA
HEREDITARY BLOOD POISON

Scrofula is disease manifested
usually by swelling and liberation
of the glands, especially about the
neck. 1t is almost entirely hereditary
in its origin, being the dregs or re-
mains of some specific blood poison.
Where the blood is greatly weakened
with the scrofulous poison, the disease
attacks other portions of the system
besides the glands, and then we see its
effects in weak eyes, poorly developed
bodies, running sores and ulcers, skin
diseases, especially on the scalp, ca
tarrhal troubles, etc. Scrofula usually
makes its appearance in childhood,
though manhood or womanhood may
be reached before the poison pro-
crosses to the stage Of outward mani
festation. S. S. S. is the one real cure
for Scrofula. 1t is blood purifier
without an equal, and it cures this
destructive blood poison by removing
every trace of the infection from the
circulation. SIS S., in addition to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
Timely Discovery.

1t has been discovered by Pendle-
ton people that a SINGLE DOSE Of
Adler-i-ka, the new German Appen-
dicitis remedy, relieves wind or gas in
the stomach or bowels, sour stomach
or constipation. Pendleton Drug
company.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

Mashed potatoes are made whittier
and lighter by adding Clevsland's
Baking Powder before beating. Try q
pound can from your grocer for 81.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
A Piano for
Christmas

What could make your home
brighter or more cheerful On
Christmas day than one of these
beautiful pianos Whether it
be a brand new high grade pi-
ano, 4 piano of medium price or
a second hand piano. Take
that $500 or $1,000 that you
would probably spend on a pres
ent that would soon be cast
aside and forgotten and make
the first payment on a piano. a
few dollars per month afterward
for a few months and you have
it paid for. The children then
have something which they real
ly need, something which is not
only a source of enjoyment and
pleasure, but the means through
which they may acquire the
highest of all art, Music. Any
piano you may select will be
stored free of charge and de-
livered to YOU on Christmas
day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
A. |. SchaefOr

Leading Jeweler and Headquarters for
Xmas Gifts Of Quality and Worth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

Do yss take the East oresonianf
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

cleansing and
purify in g the
blood, assists the
stomach and di-
gestive members
i'll the creation cf
new blood cor
puscles and other
nourishing mat
ter for tlia cirC,,-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

Do you want your children
to grow up without the advan-
tages OF a musical education I
Don't you know that NOW is
the time to give them a start in
music! Select any musician
of any note You wish and you
will find that they started to
study the piano at the age of
seven and eight. Yes even
younger in some eases. So
don't put them off. Give them
an equal chance with the other
little folks across the way.
We deliver pianos anywhere
Out of town customers drop
us a card or phone us for prices
and terms. Every day we are
receiving out of town orders
for pianos. We deliver pianos
anywhere to be paid for on
weekly, monthly, quarterly or
yearly payments.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25

Among the many bargains
we now have is Baby Grand
Chickering piano which will be
sold along with the other stock
at a liberal discount. We need
not tell yon about this instru-
ment, as it is too well known.
All you need to know is that we
have Chickering Grand piano
that must be sold. Don't fail
to see this beautiful instrument.
If you have an upright piano
for which we could find a ready
sale we will gladly take it in as
part payment on this Baby
Grand.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1910-01-21
KILLING OF A
NOTED OUTLAW
''Outch lienry," the Most Dreaded Stock
Rustler in the Northwestern Country,
Shot to Death by Mounted Po-
iceman in the Vicinity of
Moosejaw.

Moosejaw, Jan. II. The notorious
Dutch Henry, cattle thief, who has
scourged the border country for the past
eight years, was shot at Big Muddy
river, sixty miles south of here, yester-
day by mounted policeman. Henry
was killed in duel with the policeman
who shot him after having his own
horse shot from under him.
It is said the policeman met Dutch
Henry at Big Muddy Yesterday morn
ing and recognized the man, and on
making a move to arrest him the out
law tried to escape by shooting the
policeman's horse. The policeman was
thrown to the ground but recovered and
killed the outlaw on the first or second
shot.
Dutch Henry has been wanted by the
police on both sides of the line for over
eight years, being the most brazen
cattle thief and horse rustler of late
days. He evaded the police continually
by crossing from one side of the line to
the other and having protection from
friends or persons lntimidated. He has
worked in company with others, many
of whom have been captured, but al
ways managed to keep clear of arrest
himself.
Dutch Henry is a well-known charac-
ter in this section of the state and has
for years been the fear of the ranchers
Of the northwest states and Canada. 1t
has been reported time and again that
this famous cattle thief has been sur
rounded and that his capture was cer-
tain. but he has always been able to
slip away and evade the officers.
He was practically the last of the
cattle rustlers in this country, as the
rapid settling up of the new territory
makes it impossible for any gang to
long exist without being captured and
brought to justice.
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= S'&te Historical Society

granted away to railroads and other
corporations great deal of public do
main, it did not require them or of them
or their grantees any residence, but
merely required them to build a few
miles of railroad. In other words make
certain improvements, and it ought to
be as generous with people on public
lands and give them title when they
had made certain improvements. for
upon the prosperity of the people de-
pends the prosperity not only Of rail
roads, but the stability of the govern
ment itself.
Very truly yours,
JOHN J. POWER.
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LAW SHOULD " .
BE CHANGED
Sane and Sensible Communication Ap-
pearing in the Minot Democrat Sug-
gesting Changes That Should be
i Made in the Present Home
stead Law.

The homestead law should be changed
so that improvements would be the test
of compliance, rather than residence.
The present homestead law is old, out
Of date and does not meet the require
ments of this progressive country; it is
to q large extent a ''dead letter."
The present law provides that per-
son. shall live fourteen months on his
claim and may then commute and pay a
certain sum, or live FIVE years and then
prove up without having to pay any
money except nominal sum. It will
be seen that in the earning of home
stead under the present law, the whole
matter turns upon residence. A person
may have shack of any kind, worth a
few dollars, but if they have stayed
upon the claim and have ten acres under
cultivation, they nevertheless can prove
up the claim; this is from my point of
view, entirely wrong. The matter of
earning homestead, according to my
judgment, should be made to turn up
on th improvements-that i 8, the
hpmesteader should be allowed to make
final proof within three years, when he
or she had so much plowed and under
cultivation-say on q quarter section
when 80 acres are plowed, and half
section in the same proportion, coupled
with other improvements such as a
house, well, barn, etc., so that the ag-
gregate of building would be about $500.
Then in that case do not require the
hQnesteader to remain on his home
stsad, so that in case ola young party,
man or woman, they might go out and
earn money to improve the homestead;
they could earn money to have blowing
done and to build with, for many who
homestead have no horses or means to
do these things with, and what foolish
thing to make them sit down and do
nothing for five years or lose their
claim, for under the present law they
must be on the claim, and reside there
whether they have the means of. start
ing; the improvements or not. The
books are full of decisions where worthy
homesteaders have lost their claims,
just because they went out to earn
money to improve them. The govern
ment thus penalties them for their in
dustry and economy; penalties them for
their energy. Thus by forcing women
to live on their claims during. winter,
I'VE. find that there has been a percent
sageof 10 toll women perish, as com
pared with the number of criminals 'ex-
ecuted for r:murder in Ward county; and
besides the anguish Of the parents and
friends while they are there.
!. Again, many worthy persons cannot
make entry on homesteads, such as
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clerks in stores, and other business
men, yet they would be willing to i'm
prove one well, only for the matter of
residence. How can physician leave
his profession after spending large sums
on his education, and go and live on q
claim. yet he is q useful and necessary
member Of society; and the same is
true of lawyers and others.
When the life of this country was
threatened and its existence about to
be terminated by the great civil war,
this government took as soldiers, and
accepted their service on the field of
battle, boys who had reached the age
Of eighteen years, yet though thousands
at this age went into the service, or
were drafted in, and many gave up their
lives that their country might live,
though they know and feel all the en-
thusiasm that is possible, yet notwith-
standing all this the government says
to them that they are not competent,
do not know enough to take up and hold
a homestead until they are twenty-one.
Still, this government will give home
steads to foreigners who come to this
country and declare they intend to be-
come citizens of the United States.
They do not have to wait at all, but get
an entry at once, notwithstanding the
fact that he knows nothing of our lang
uage and customs and anyone who will
hang around the courts will see many
of the same parties making final proof
five years from that time and becoming
full fiedged citizens, without having
any knowledge of our language and
without ever having read or studied our
constitution or knowing anything about
our history. Is it true that foreigner
thus situated, and there are many of
them, are in better position and more
entitled to homesteads than one of our
bright American boys or girls of eigh-
teen years Of age?
Our present law provides that man
is only entitled to one claim. He has
taken up q claim, makes it valuable,
sells it for two or three thousand dol
lars. He is now without homestead,
and in order to secure one he must
leave the home of his birth and move to
foreign country with his money, per-
haps from two to seven thousand dol
lars. In his place the government rec
ognizes the foreigner, with from twen-
ty to fifty dollars. Is not this poor
principle?
The matter of homestead residence
as the great test in earning home
stead is fossilized and ought to be dis
carded; homestead ought to be earned
when it is improved in the manner here
inbefore stated and the earning ought
to depend up on the improvements.
This should be the test, and an inspec-
tor should be appointed to see that this
is done, and the resider ce should be a
matter of choice, but the improvements
compulsory.
The present homestead law should be
repealed and one enacted in its place
which is more in keeping with conditions
with that Of the homesteaders.
What makes any farm valuable? Why,
improvements, of course. Then, why
d oes not the government require
improvement instead of residence.
The United States government has
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the cedars that clung around was the
body of Mrs. Belle Guinness. She was
in the deep sleep that chloroform in
duces when the smoke crept up through
the crevices and smothered her. She
died as she lay sleeping with the head of
her little boy pillowed on her breast and
her arm about his neck, the pledge of
the protection she was powerless to
give, He, too, chloroformed, was as
helpless as she was. ;& - ~ - !
ADOPTED DAUGHTER SLAIN WITH OTHERS
Neither of them knew aught of it
when the two girls, Myrtle and Lucy,
not so thoroughly chloroformed as the
women and boy, awoke to their peril
and ran into their mothers room and
threw themselves upon the woman, be-
seeching the help she could not give.
They perished there with the woman
and boy; mercifully sufocated by the
smoke before the flames came licking
their tender flesh.
Another, also chloroformed, perished
like the rest in the flames that destroy
ed the house of tragedies that April
night in 1907. y
ter of Mrs. Guinness, who it has until
now been believed, was murdered by
the woman over year before the house
was burned and whose body was believ-
ed to have been buried in the farmyard,
was not murdered by Mrs. Guinness, ac-
cording to Lamphere's confession, but
was in the house the night it burned
and was burned to death. .......,
It was true, it seems, as Mrs. Guinness
claimed, that she had sent Jennie away
to school for time, but she had return
ed and MRS. Guinness, for reasons other
own, had kept her concealed in the
house. Lamphere found her, he said,
when he went there the night the house
burned and he chloroformed her and she
died as she lay in her bed. With her
body flames did their work SO well.
ANOTHER BODY WAS NOT IDENTIFIED
The searchers raking the hot debris
the next day found only the four bodies:
For one thing, they were not looking
for five. They knew only Of four, and
when these were found they ceased the
search.
There were fragments that were not
fitted together, and there were frag-
ments found later when the debris was
sluiced for the teeth of Mrs. Guinness,
but it was assumed that they belonged
to the bodies that had been found.
There was an unconvincing identifica-
tion by relatives of Jennie Olson of parts
Of girls body dug up in the yard, but
the condition of the parts was such
that an intelligent identification was
impossible. =
Assuming that Lamphere told the
truth about Jennie Olson, the idenu ty
of the girl buried in the yard adds an
other mystery to the case.
WOMAN AccoMPLIcE HELPED IN CRIME.
What he did confess, not inseourt, but
in confidence, was that he had guilty
knowledge of the murder OF three men
in the Guinness farm house during the
time that he lived there about eight
in 1909; that he assisted MRS.
Guinness in disposing Of the bodies Of
these three men. that she did not give
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THE GUINNESS FARM
MYSTERIES SOLVED
Ray Lamphere, on His Deathbed, Tells Of
Series Of Atrocious Crimes of Which
Woman Was Guilty, and Of His
Own Slaughter Of Her Whole
Family. 6: s.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch Of the
18th inst. prints story to the effect
that Ray Lamphere, who died a few
days ago in the Indiana penitentiary at
Michigan City, while serving term
for setting fire to. the home of Mrs.
Belle Guinness, near La Porte, Ind, did
not carry the secrets of the Guinness
charnel farm to the tomb with him.
When he believed death and eternity
were near he unburdened himself by a
voluntary confession whi:h clears the
Guinness mystery -crime that only few
short months ago shocked the civilized
world.
According to the story, which is dated
La Porte, Ind, St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch correspondent in aquest extending
this confession, hitherto supposed to have
been made only to the Rev. DR.. E. A.
Schell, formerly pastor of the Methodist
church at La Porte, Ind, now president
of the Iowa Wesleyan college at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, and held by him violate
as the secret of the confessional.
The confession shows:
That Mrs. Guinness is dead. That she
and her three children were chlorof0rm
ed by Lamphere who was robbing the
house and all four were burned to death.
That Jennie Olson was not murdered
by Mrs. Guinness several months before
the fire, but was chloroformed and
burned to death like the rest.
That Lamphere had q woman cconl-
plice in the robbery venture -.
That the chloroform used was part
of quantities that had been bought by
Lamphere for; Mrs. Guinness { o kill
three men, y
That Lamphere saw one Of these men
killed and assisted in burying all three.
That these men were Andrew Helge-
lein and probably Ole Budsberg and
Tonnes Peterson Lien. Ey.
That one these men, probably
Lien, was the third husband of Mrs.
Guinness. - g. =
TELLS HOW MRS. GUINNESS WAS KILLED.
The confession is startling in its vari-
ance from the theories hitherto held,
based on all the available evidence.
Pleusibility and the presence of state
ments that are difficult to reconcile
with what have been accepted as facts
tend to strengthen the presumption of
truthfuiness upon the part of Lam
phere, who would not have gone counter
to the obvious and plausible if ne had
not been telling the truth. I.
thousands, that Mrs. Guinness is dead.
The adult body found in the smoking
ruins of the Guinness farm house among
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him as much of the profits of the trans.
action as he considered himself entitled
to, that he went to the farm house at
night accompanied bv woman accom-
plice, that he chloroformed Mrs. Gun
ness and the children and Jennie Olson,
that he nd the woman accomplice
searched the house with candles and
matches, that they found only between
$50 and $40, that they left without
knowing that they had left behind q
spark that soon after caused the house
to burst into flames.
There is the irony of avenging fate
in the fact that it was by arts which
Mrs. Guinness taught him nd with
chloroform he bought for her that she
came to her death. ... .5
LURED MEN BY MARRIAGE PROMISE. +
Her method of killing her victims,
Lamphere said, was first chlorof0rm
them as they slept and then if the
chloroform did not itself kill, she sew
cred their heads with keen-edged ak.
Each time man was to be murdered,
according to Lamphere, she sent him to
purchase chloroform and each time,
prompted by cunning impulse rather
than definite object, he kept portion
of the drug. -.
Lamphere, ne'er do well carpenter,
was hired by Mrs. Guinness in the early
part Of 1907 to do some work upon the
Guinness farm. He remained there.
One day Mrs. Guinness remarked that
her cousin was coming to see her, and
she had Lamphere hitch horse to the
buggy and she drove to the Lake Shore
depot and soon returned with man.
He was not her cousin, of course. He
had read her matrimonial advertisement
and had written her and she had invited
him to come and see her and had prom
ised him she would marry him If he
would bring enough money along to pay
off the mortgage on the farm.
AwoKE HIM TO BuRYA CORPSE
This man went to sleep one night and
never awoke. In the dark hour before
dawn Mrs. Guinness awakened Iamphere
sleeping IN the farm house annex, to
which he had been exiled, said the con-
fession, and ordered him to carry some
thing in gunnysack to the farmyard,
where hole had been dug by another
as an ostensible receptacle for rubbish.
The gunnysack tumbled into the hole
and hummock of earth was shoveled
on top of it.
. Lamphere was again in favor and had
more money than ever to spend in drink
ing and gambling in the saloons Of La
Porte. g But within the same month an
other man came to the farm. Mrs. Gum
ness did not pretend that he was her
cousin: He, too, had brought all his
money expecting to wed the widow.
But he was cunning, this Norwegian:
He was willing to pay off the mortgage
but he wanted his status established
first. All her wiles did not avail to
coax from him the, hiding place of the
money. After they were married he
told her would be time enough. So they
went away somewhere, Lamphere ac-
knowledged, to St. Joe, Mich. and were
married, and they came back home and
\
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If you contemplate having a sale,
talk it over with Auctioneer Chas. j.
Kopriva. 1t will pay you to do so. l3tf
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-16
M&&13}

We will give you a thor
ough examination absolutely
free of charge. We have
our expert dentists do this,
Rewember, we have no be.
ginners here; all our dentists
know their business thor.
oughly. That is the only
kind we will have in our
office. We do first class
work at the following low
prices:
Full set of teeth. :. $500
22k. gold crown. :. $500
Best bridge work for $500
Come in and get acquaint-
ed. We will certainly do our
best to make it pleasant and
profitable to know us.
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FASHIONS,
FADS AND
FANC1Es
NEWS FOR
.pntbta 6reps'
getter8

Dear Miss Grey: l am a girl of
90. l stay at home and care for
p house of nine rooms without
modern improvements, and do all
the washing and ironing for fam
lily composed of three brothers and
my parents. What salary ought l
to get? My mother is good to me,
but close in regard to money af-
fairs. She buys me nice clothes,
but if | ask for little money / get
a sermon instead. There are times
when a girl meets with tempta-
tions. How can one resist?
*. Nee.
A.-You ask what salary a girl
should get who does all the house
work at home. You're entitled to
something. undoubtedly, besides
clothes and food. I can't tell how
much. l think you really want to
ask me how to get any salary at
all. l would advise you to strike.
I don't mean to suddenly stop
working at home. But if l were
you, I'd get interested in something
outside the home, church work,
charity work, or something like
that. I'd gradually drop a little of
the work about the house. Then
I'd explain to the men folks that
they are expecting too much from
both you and your mother. Per-
haps they thoughtlessly spend
money which, if the ). case were
properly shown to them, they
might turn over to you and your
mother for your own personal use.
I'd show q little streak of indie
pendence, If l were you.