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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-05
PERSONAL
MENTION


j. B. Fielde is over from his home
at Hot Lake.
II. Osborne of Baker, is guest of
the st. George.
f. b. Casteel, Pilot Rock business
man, spent yesterday in Pendleton.
William Slusher returned to his
Nolin sheep ranch this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crawford went
to Portland this morning on the local
J. ID. Brown of Arlington is am
ong the out-of-town visitors n the city.
Marvin Hutchinson was among the
Pilot Rock people in the city yester-
day
W. r. Walpole, Jr,, of Irrigon was
business visitor in Pendleton yes
terday.
Mrs. II. r Newport, wife of the
Hermiston mayor, came in from her
home yesterday.
Zoeth Houser, well known stanfield
rancher, was watching the election
in this city yesterday.
Samuel C. Jackson of Athena, came
IN yesterday from his home and is
spending the day here.
John p. McManus of Pilot Rock
was an interested observer of the PEN
dleton election yesterday.
Fred Wilson of Athena, candidate
for congress, took the local this NOR
ming enroute to Heppner
I. r. Laurence returned to his home
Ing election day in the city.
q. b. Hawkins and A. V. Swift are
two of the Baker farmers here to at
tend the Farmers Union convention.
Frank Griggs, salesman for the
Gritman Bros. cigar company, went
to Hermiston and Umatilla today on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle r. Chessman
VIII leave in the morning on a weeks
visit with Portland and Eugene rela-
| tives and friends.
Miss Olive Harper has returned to
her home in this city after a visit of
ten days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Adams near Uklah.
County Commissioner Matt Cock
Durn came down from Milton this
morning to be here for the meeting
OF the county court tomorrow.
George A. Ferguson head of the la.
dies shoe department, at the Alex.
ander department store, has returned
from trip to Seattle and other cite.
on Puget Sound.
ID. j. Cooper, father of j. A. Coope,
Of the Bowman Hotel, is in the cit,
to visit his son and as a representa-
tive of The Dalles local of the Farm
ers' Union.
A. X. Shumway, a prominent mem
ber of the Farmers Union, came il
this morning from his home in tn,
east end of the county to attend tn,
annual state convention of his organi
zation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-05
LOCALS
&c Snyder. chimney sweep. R ss12.

&c Snyder. chimney sweep. X 3SlZ'
Past'me pictures please all
Main 17S for coal and wood.
Phone Dutch Henry for dry wood
and Rock Spring coal. Main us.
For clean coal and dry wood, phone
Main 5.
Everybody goes to the orpheum to
see the best and the clearest pictures
Special rates to horses boarded by
the week or month at the Commerciai
Barn, $40 Aura street. Phone Main ls.
All kinds of good dry wood, also
clean nut or lump Rock Spring coal
at Dutch Henry's.
Wanted-Roomers and boarders by
the day, week or month Apply 623
College street or phone Red 3112.
Save yourself fuel troubles by us
ing our famous Rock Spring coal ana
good dry wood. Delivered promptly
Ben l.. Burroughs. phone Main b.
For rent-well furnished room
with furnace heat and bath. Inquire
at 621 Willow street
For Rents room house, lots,
with orchard and barn, chicken lots
and houses. Apply Frazier's Book
Store.
Lost-Mink fur near Christian
church. Finder please notify Mrs. 1.
Christensen, 5O4 Jane street, or leave
at this office and receive reward.
Take Northern Pacific Ry. to Spo-
kane. Leaves 1880 p. m, arrive 9:55
D. m. Tickets from w. Adams,
Agent, Pendleton.
II you want TO move, call Penland
Bros. Transfer, phone 1891. Large
dray moves you quick. Trash hauled
once a week. 647 Main street.
Gordon & Davis, carriage and au-
tomobile painting. We're here to
stay and guarantee first-class work
state building, ia r. Webb street.
For transfer work. hauling bag
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CONTINUED from page one.)
was taken up, but left over until a
later date.
Mr.. Hinkle stated that he was not
against the extension of the Umatilla
project, that he owned land which
would most probably be under the site
of the reservoir, but that If he and
the government could not get togeth-
er on a price for this land certainly
a jury would be able to settle the
price. He stated also that the main
contention of the Echo and Stanfield
people was on account of the drain
age. He very emphatically stated
several times that he wanted it un-
derstood that he was not against the
western extension but that he would
like to have the government officials
make up their minds as to whether
the project would go through or not,
that as it now stood it is impossible
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quent appropriation to other projects
of all available funds, the agitation
for the west extension has now been
renewed with increased vigor and a
fair prospect exists for continued ag-
itation extending over another long pc
riod of time to the great detriment
of these settlers.
Therefore. we respectfully request
an immediate decision as to whether
or not this project is to be built
Respectfully submitted,
C. II. GARDINER,
PETER SHERIDAN
]. T. HINKLE,
COMMITTEES
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would settle the question.

That about one year has elapsed
since the report of that board, turn
ing down the west extension, and we
are reliably informed through N.
Teal of Portland, oregon, quoting the
statement of the secretary of the in
terror to the effect that all available
moneys have been appropriated to
other projects. including the irrigation
bond issue and the anticipated re-
ceipts of the reclamation fund for a
number of years to come.
That notwithstanding the rejection
of the proposed extension by the
board of army engineers and subse-
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gage, moving household goods and
pianos and all kinds of Job work,
phone Mainn 461. B. A. Morton.

Lost-Box containing 5 red silk tas-
sells. Return to office Peoples Ware
house.
Fat young dressed geese, Ice lb.,
weigh IL to IA pounds. Home made
sauer kraut. 1902 w. Webb street.
One of best small alfalfa ranches
in Umatilla county for price asked.
This is a bargain If you have $500
in real money it will pay you to
come and see us. Teutsch & Bickers
100 acre wheat ranch, so acres in
fall wheat. good fence and cross
fence, fair house. small barn and
granary. This is snap for man
with small capital. Must be han
died at once. If you have or 500
dollars, come and see us. Teutsch &
Bickers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-05
QUITS DENTISTS IN HASTE.
Woman Is Blown Through Window
by Explosion of Gasoline Tank.

Park City, Utah.-Amid a shower
of teeth that were not her own. Mrs.
William Blood was blown from a dcn-
lists chair through the window of the
tooth fixer's office by the explosion
of a tank of gasoline
what relief" she said. as she
arose uninjured and departed to her
home.
Mrs. George McCarroll, another pa
tent, was burned about the face.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-05

chicken pie, chilli con carne, spa
Whettl, Hungarian Goulosh Spanish
All the good things a la Mexicana at
the Costilian lunch and supper, De-
cember G.
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Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends who so
kindly assisted us during the illness
and death of our father.
MRS. CLYDE E. FINCH,
ROBIN w. FLETCHER
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-05

Few people need enlightenment by
a campaign committee on President
Taft's record
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SETTLERS WANT AN EARLY
DECISION ABOUT EXTENSIO

CONTINUED from page one.)
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form varies and becomes cons p.cuous
therefor. In 1850 Gov. Atkinson of West
Virginia startled the country by his proc
lamation. In few brief lines he cal ed
upon the people of his state TO observe
the day, and appended twenty five texts
Of Scripture, all bearing upon the subject
Of giving thanks.
Congress. by special enactment. in $50
made the fourth Thursday in November
Of each year a legal holiday in the Dis
trict OF Columbia and the territories Of
the United States. Similar legislation has
been enacted by all the states ana the
large cities independent of state control
The association of foot ball with
THANKSGIVING day arose in the colleges OF
the country about twenty-five years ago,
when IL became the custom to set that
holiday as the time for playing the grea
deciding games. Now ii marks the end
Of the foot ball season. and each year
there is a great outpouring to PhiladeI
phia and other cities to witness the final
contests.
To whatever extent Thanksgiving day
may have changed as refgs us ohServ-
ance. its social side remains sta IL.
Prayer may have given way to sport, "a
some say, in these modern days. but the
feasting is just as much feature of the
occasion as when Gov. Bradford shared
entertainment with old Massasoit at Cape
Cod. Moralists may shake their heads
over the decadence Of the holiday. but
the man who raises turkeys finds no
fault. He fattens his flock and rakes IN
his dollars for the fowls that custom pre-
scribes shall grace the Thankseiving
table.
There has been a tendency of late years
to put the prices high. and there are even
rumors OF a trust, but the Thanksgiving
bird will be at the shambes in Center
market In enormous numbers in this
year Of 1911, and whatever the price the
people will pay It, Thanksgiving would
not be the day IL Is without the tradition
al dishes on table and sideboard. and
there is every indication that the 4 rkey
will be toothsome, the mince pie delicious
and the cranberry sauce appetizing this
year, whatever the fate OF the sermons
and the foot BALI scores.
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far away it would appear one-sixteenth
as bright, and so on. We can therefore
readily find that if our sun were removed
to the distance of Sirius it would shine
only one thirty-third as brightly as Sirius
does; at this distance it would look to us
only as bright as our North Star does
now. We are therefore quite certain that
Sirius is actually pouring out thirty three
times as much light as our own sun. In
the same way we find that Procyon,
which, though only slightly more distant.
is clearly much fainter than Sirius, is
about eight times as bright as our sun.
*
Both Sirius and Prccyon are among our
very nearest neighbors among the stars.
Altogether there are less than one hun
dred suns SO near us that their positions
seem to change as We view them from our
moving earth; all the rest are so enor-
mously remote that we do not see them
displaced at all even when We journey the
great distance of one hundred and eighty
million miles, from one side Of our sun to
the other. Is there any way In which we
can estimate the distance of these re-
mote stars, and especially can we learn
anything of the distance of the millions of
faint stars which. compose the densest
part of the Milky Way?
There are many ways Of doing this. of
which perhaps the cieareSt Is the follow
ing. We have seen that If our sun were
placed where Sirius now is it would look
only one thirty third as bright as that
star. Similarly We can compare it's
brightness with each one Of the stars
whose distance away from us Is known.
We find that while some of these stars
are brighter and some fainter than our
sun. yet on the whole they are consid-
erably brighter. That is. our sun Is faint
er than the average of all stars whose
brightness we know. If we regard a star
which is just as bright as the average of
all Of these stars as a sort Of typical sun,
We can readily find just how far away
from us it would have to be placed that it
might appear as faint to us as the aver
age of the stars in the Milky Way.
When the computation Is made 1T is
found that the great mass of stars which
form the background. or floor, of the
Milky Way are no less than four thou
sand light years away from US. That Is.
the light with which we view them to-
night started on it's journey toward us
four thousand years ago. This Is the ap-
proximate distance of the great mass OF
stars of the Milky Way The distances of
many Of the excessively faint stars. which
can only be detected by a long exposure
Of a delicate Photographic plate. are most
probably even enormously greater than
this; indeed we have no evidence that
there is any limit whatever to the Won
derful universe of suns around us.
Mercury reaches its greatest distance
east Of the sun December Z, and may be
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steeple- lacked into the smothering upper
and started to WOO Mor-well, whatever
the name of the slumber deity Is.
Then came the establishment OF my
life.
/ thought hoped-it might be the fat
drummer in the berth ahead of mine.
listened intently, head out OF the cur
tains, hoping that hope might be true.
But it wasn't true. The fat drummer
wasn't making sound. He was sleeping
the sleep of the noiseless.
I relate this with sadness. The aston
ishing snoring-the boisterous dipasOnic,
cataclysmic pipe-organ snoring-was pro,
ceeding from the berth beneath mine, and
none other, and the snorer was the lady
with the several-thousand-bo nes-per-
night voice!
Her snoring was not even rhythmic,
such as the snoring of the lumber5ack in
the heart of the Wisconsin woods often
is. 1t was broken, syncopated snoring
you'd almost say ragtme snoring! l
thought, with some bitterness, that. see
ing as how I'd adiposely-politely sur
rendered my lower berth to the lady, she
might at least have staked me to So
nambuistic rendering Of. say. the duet
in the first act of Butterfly or the
aria from 'Semiramide, or, at the very
least. the mad song from "SonambuIa. .
But would she and did she? She would
not and she did not! She simply snored
heavily, heartily, enthusiastically,
brokenly, without the jeast semblance
of tempo, without nuance, no shading OF
tone whatever.
If her snoring had only been in one
given speed, even! But no. She'd snore
for little while in dirge-like andante
measure; then. of sudden. shed pick
up acceleration and swing into swift
allegro movement. 1t was perplexing,
horrifying, l caught myself trying to
follow her odd tempt. 1t was out of the
question.
1 returned to the smoking compartment
and stupefied myself with nicotine for the
remainder Of the night.
1 saw the dear stout singing lady In
the dining car at breakfast. She was as
fresh as a dewy rose-ripe, wholesome.
luxurious rested all through: well she
might have been She thanked me again,
very musically, not to say eoofully, for
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forty of the girls. marching In twos-
wholesome girls of from fifteen to twenty,
from every section of the land.
For several squares along the line of
march on 9Th avenue the girls. piodding
along and minding their business with
the trained absorbness of finishing school
young women, were the victims OF vicious
remarks tossed at them by the gangs OF
immigrant laborers working along tho
curbs where the curb extension work OF
9TH avenue is in progress.
The face of the instructress chaperoning
the party became a study in flaming COM
preston as she marched along at the
head of her girls. She looked neither to
the right nor to the left, but her eyes
shone with sparks. She was lean, neat
spinster. tall, trig and obviously out of
some place in New England where such
things could not be, and as she trudged
along one could see that her spirit was
swirling in bitterness.
Arriving at a corner in the 4Os. under
a temporary wooden shed where a new
building is going UP. the instructress
found her path deliberately barred by a
dozen or so of the raucous chatterers;
they held out their arms in gestures. and
picked over their stock of remarks to
assert out the worst words they could
find in their vocabularies One OF these
fellows, chap with little black eyes and
a mustache twisted into toad points. led
the gang of immigrant laborers In this
sudden demonstration. and his language
was particularly offensive.
The spinster instructress looked around
as if for help. There were lot OF sup
posedly American artisans about; car
penters bricklayers. plumbers and the
like. But they only looked on stolidly.
Perhaps they would have done something
had they not had highly realistic prefig-
urations of knives sticking in their ribs.
At any rate they did nothing to help out
the spins r in charge Of her insulted
flock. So the spinster. her lean figure be-
coming taut, decided to do something for
herself and that flock.
She stepped out two swift paces pulled
back her long right arm, put all Of the
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to grace a cannibal feast in the Solomon
Islands. He was the deadest American
foreman that ever looked into q trench,
and the he-things who thus slaughtered
him easily got of on the plea that the
foreman had, in drunken frenzy, attacked
them Tor general results with a pick-ax.
These fellows were American citizens"
1T appeared. and their votes were exceed
ingly desired by the politician who saw to
, 1t that no harm came to them for their
murder Of the American whom they had
butchered for trying to protect woman
folk.
Once in a great while some sorely out
ragged woman, suffering under an accumu-
latiOn of these insults, will pick out a
few members of gang of these ruff1ans
and try to have them arrested. Sometimes
she succeeds but generally she does not.
The cops look askance at her when she
makes such request. The New York
cop fully understands the Importance OF
the alien vote: he does not get actual In
structions, 1t may be true, to go light
on such foreign violators of law and
American sense of decency: but he Is
constantly confronted, in police courts
with the spectacle of pOlitics-playing mag
istrates incontinenty dismissing COM
plants against offenders Of alien races
who by the hue-and-cry method. can and
do easily raise the misrepresentation
whimper II real justice is by chance
melted out to them.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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festival. Zachariah Taylor. then in the
White House. was visited by a delegation
of clergymen and requested to act. His
reply was a full recognition Of the ma
tional custom and sympathy Herewith,
but he said he preferred that the official
announcement of the event should he left
to the state and municipal authorities.
One OF the arguments used upon Gen.
Taylor was that proclamation by the
President and specific mention Of the
duty of the people to gather in the
churches to give thanks would have the
effect of putting a check upon the secu-
larizing Of the day by Thanksgiving balls
and the tendency of men to go hunting.
Indeed, in the fifties the ball on the eve
of Thanksgiving had become a regular
observance at the capital, and no doubt
it lessened the size of the congregations
in church the next morning.
THANKSGIVING day. 1860. was a memo
rable event in the United States. From
many a pulpit that day fell a warning
that abnegation before God was more At
than the usual enjoyments of the day. So
widely did this impression prevail that
President Buchanan was appealed to by
associations and various persons to APP
point a special day of fasting and prayer
to avert the dreaded coming Of civil war
He yielded to the request. and Friday.
January 4, 1861. was set apart to that pur-
pose. Several similar days. some for fast
ing and some for thanksgiving, were ap-
pointed by President Lincoln in the course
Of the four years strife which followed.
But these religious observances did not
interfere with the regular Thanksgiving
day. and it was each year proclaimed by
Mr.. Lincoln, and by every President
since.
Reference has been made to the first
recorded Thanksgiving proclamation by
the court of Massachusetts. Since that
time, though many of them have been
promulgated. the form remains largely
the same. The nation, state or munic
pality is admOnished of the propriety of
giving thanks Many times special events
are mentioned, but usually they are
couched in Understanding terms and brief
platitudes. Occasionally. however, the
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detected on a few evenings before and
after this date, shining in the twilight
glow low in the southwest.
Both Venus and Jupiter are now morn
ing stars and shine out most brilliantly In
the southeast for about three hours before
sunrise Toward the end of the month
the two bright and most interesting plan
ets'will be seen very near together; the
more swiftly moving Venus will overtake
and pass north of Jupiter January o.
Mars and Saturn remain in the most
favorable possible position for observa-
ton and the possessor of a small tele-
scope should not fail to examine these
beautiful worlds on some Of the clear
evenings of this month while they remain
near opposition. The north polar cap OF
planet, and both this and the markings
will be plainly visible on any evening
when the seeing is good. From now on,
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part of an inch beside the mark in main
tanning that 9Th avenue no longer is a
safe place for women to walk. either
alone. In company with other members OF
their sex. or even accompanied by man
folks. The immigrant laborers no longer
care, in fact, whether the attractive wom-
en- on the streets are accompanied by men
or not They know very well that the
most intrepid man can't possibly be such
an idiot as to try to chastise hundreds of
louis armed with picks and shovelS for
insults visited upon woman folk l be-
leve they really prefer to have the in
suited women accompanied by American
men that they enjoy the writhing of the
escorts in their helplessnesS to correct the
vicious situation.
When large section of upper Broad
way was torn up by renewals of street
car tracks a while back the thing be-
came so bad that thousands of New York
women were afraid to ride on the open
Broadway cars. The immigrant laborers
from their trenches would gaze up grin
ningly and make outrageous remarks to
the women sitting in end seats 1T was
{ " il e for n alarm d " omen to ap
peal to the males riding in the car such
appeals would only be greeted by laughs.
IT'S an odd crowd of SO-termed ma .eS, in
deed. in New York to which menaced
woman can successfully appeal at any
stage of the game. Protectors of women
are to be found here in fewer numbers,
proportionately, than in any other city
in the United States: no wonderful thing,
either, when it is considered how essen
TALLY un-American New York city is.
Women if they are imbued with the
militant spirit, must take the matter of
their protection into their own hands in
this town. / saw striking instance OF
this Saturday afternoon last In 9th ave-
nue..
An instructress in languages in girls
school-a fashionable institution uptown
off 9Th avenue-was marching a line as
sortment of young girl pupils down 9TH
avenue to a matinee. thus combining a
constitutional for the young women with
the matinee purpose. There were perhaps